Craig’s Musings

Before the end of 2007, I finished reading Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, and then I promptly forgot to blog my thoughts (i.e. beyond this).
Cirque du Soleil is the leading example of a business successfully applying blue ocean strategy to break away from the pack [...]

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Once again, watching Modern Marvels yields another software idea. This time an episode on harvesting referenced the practice known as “precision farming” (also “precision agriculture“).

Rather than treating everything equal on a farm with a crop harvest in mind, precision farming enables farmers to take a different view of their crops and land. Farmers can see [...]

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In response to the DFS area within the EDN forums, Sergey at DFS Notes has been kind enough to post a three-part tutorial as follows:

Part 1 - Environment setup for DFS SDK and (”Hello World”) service creation
Part 2 - Java client creation
Part 3 - .NET remote client

Here are a few more details to complement [...]

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Although it began as an Oracle blogosphere community builder, Billy Cripe was kind enough to include others outside his employer, including me, for this friendly game.
First, I am to disclose eight not-so-obvious things about myself. OK:

I’m right-minded since I’m left-handed (i.e. a South Paw, a Goofy Footer).
My wife grew up in South Africa and we [...]

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Last weekend–before the Sierra’s were dumped on–my family and a friend’s family went up past Sonora for a few days to play in the snow. On the first day while driving to Pine Crest, we came across of hillside perfect for sledding. In fact a whole army of families had and continued to make the [...]

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