6 Ideas Off My Chest

For the past few months I’ve been sitting on some ideas (for Web applications) that I’ve scribbled here & there. I’m working on a few (not listed here) in my spare time, but realistically I won’t be able to work on all…

Three Monkeys of Test-Driven Development

Test-driven development (TDD), is an evolutionary approach to software development, in which you write a test before you write just enough production code to fulfill that test. The simple goal of TDD is to write clean code that works. Due to this fact, TDD is a method of designing software,…

Butterfly Effect of Social Networks

In 1963, meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked the question: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Postulating the so called “Butterfly Effect“, the idea that the flapping of fragile wings could start a chain reaction in the atmosphere. Today, Lorenz 

Knowledge Building Cycle

Once you know where knowledge resides, you simply point to it and add instructions on how to get there. The whole knowledge building cycle is a critical aspect of knowledge management. In this context, blogs/wikis help convert tacit knowledge (in the mind), which generally amounts to upto 95% of…

Knowledge Management Systems

Here’s an excerpt from a very interesting article I read on Knowledge Management Systems by Alan Ward. In his book “Future Shock”, Alvin Toffler notes that if you were to take the time that human beings have been in existence (about 50,000 years) and divide this…