by Ron Miller

IT Needs to be the Company Innovation Engine

IT needs to be the company innovation engine instead of the department where ideas go to die.

Read my full commentary on the Real User Monitoring blog.

As Workers Go Mobile, IT Must Follow

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As your workforce grows increasingly mobile, it's imperative you have a plan in place to bring enterprise content and services to them in a secure way wherever they are.

Read my full post on the Real User Monitoring blog.

If ECMs are where content goes to die, why are we here?

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If as one industry pundit suggested, legacy content management systems are where content goes to die, it begs the question, why aren't content management systems doing a better job at their primary purpose -- making content accessible for reuse, sharing or business process.

Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.

Imagine 9000 Hackers Aimed At Your Web Site

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If you wait until you under a Distributed Denial of Service attack, chances are it's too late, but with groups like Anonymous out there looking to pick fights with big business, you might want to look at ways to stop them before they shut you down.

Read my full post on the Real User Monitoring blog.

Stupid Google Chrome Tricks: Debugging a Bad Script

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I was getting an error message on Google Chrome: This page has insecure content. My choices were Don't Load or Load Anyway. 

I tried closing Chrome and reopening, rebooting my Mac Book Pro. I even ran a virus checker, but it kept coming back.

Finally, I did what seems to work best in these situations, I did a search for the error message and tracked down a solution in the Google Help Forum. As it turns out, it wasn't a virus, but a problem with the Rapportive plugin. Here's how to track down a similar problem should you find one:

Credit for this solution comes from the kind folks at Baydin, makers of Boomerang for Gmail. They don't really provide tech support for this kind of thing but they went above and beyond the call of duty on this one. Instructions below:

1. Right-click anywhere on your Gmail page and click "Inspect Element". 
2. A debug window will take over the bottom half of your browser. Click "Console" at the bar at the top of this window.
3. Search for the words "insecure content" in the console (search bar at the top-right of the console). This line will reveal where the insecure content is coming from.
4. Disable the plug-in that is creating this message. In my case it was Rapportive, which is a Chome plug-in from the Chrome App store. 

Note: I disabled Rapportive, but because I found it useful. I enabled it again and it seemed to have resolved itself for now. If you have a similar problem, this could at least help you track down the source of the problem.

Note: After a short period of time, the script error returned and I disabled Rapporative again.  

5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 1/20/12

It's Friday and that means it's time for my regular weekly feature: 5 Links for Developers and IT Pros. This we look at a post that explains DevOps in three phases, Linux making gains in the enterprise, and turning programming into a game with badges and leader boards -- an approach that just might work with programming geeks.

Read all my links and commentary on the Ness SPL Blog.

How Secure Is Your Data Center?

You think your data center's secure? Anonymous and other hackers say otherwise. Until we address fundamental network vulnerabilities, we will continue to see attack after attack -- and you could be next.

Read my full post on the Real User Monitoring blog.

Kindle Fire Could Pose New Challenges for Android Developers

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With the Kindle Fire, we have a version of Android so different, it could be like developing for an entirely new OS and that could pose challenges for developers.

Read my full post on the Ness SPL Blog.

Let's Define Piracy

 

One thing conspicuously missing from the SOPA/PIPA debate was just what constitutes piracy. And we need to have a serious conversation about defining piracy because piracy is definitely real, but it's not what big media companies and the MPAA's Chris Dodd would have you believe.

Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.

 

 

Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea

Shirky is so clear and his ideas are so well formed. He's a joy to listen to. Even if you think you've heard enough of the SOPA debate, this is well worth listening to as it defines the scope of the debate as well as I've ever heard or read: