Dear Readers,
I am looking for enthusiastic guys who can help me beta test an application not just for the functionality of the web application, but also the concept behind it.
I have already taken the liberty of involving a few of my regular readers, but if you do wish to contribute, then please do drop me a line here.
Looking forward to a solid participation 
Today I was talking to one of my classmates after aeons. Sagar was my classmate from engineering, both of us got selected as Software developers in IRIS. From then onwards, our career paths took different turns. I went on to do a PGDM from IIM-I, he went on to pick up technical expertise as an Application Developer in Oracle. Over the years, he worked on transaction life-cycle management, real time data, ETL and more importantly in the financial domain.
7 years after graduation, Sagar wants to go into Product Management field. He has the capabilities at one level, he knows the financial domain, he knows how to handle releases, he can plan a roadmap. Now although he knows he can function as a Product Manager, most of the companies insist upon a BE + MBA combination before the interview stage itself.
Why is the industry oriented around attributes instead of capabilities?
In my past 3 months at Illumine (which is a Knowledge Lab), one of the first thing that struck me was their emphasis on models. More importantly knowledge models … instead of focusing on how the knowledge flowing in the system (which what most of the KM tools focus on), the company focused on the model in which that knowledge was generated, distributed and improved. Interestingly, the organization themselves have a very loose KM in place. Right now it is basically a samba share of different folders. It’s that simple.
In an attempt to make sense out of the zillions of files on my current project, I decided to explore some interesting ways to ingest this content into a system. Immediately, Mediawiki came to mind. This is what Wikipedia is made out of.
The How
Installation was easy, you download the tarball from here. You extract it into your hosting space, and follow the simple and easy-to-use instructions in the setup wizard. Voila!! You will have a working wiki!
But that is the easy part,
The Cons
Despite these issues, I still liked the idea of a wiki and am currently having my own personal wiki, because of
The Pros
What do you think?
Do not want to rant and rave about what has been keeping me away from the blog, but this is the gist of it
, in 3 more months I would be a proud father!! Today was an opportunity where I got some free time from everything and am unleashing a slew of posts … Bwa ha ha haha!!
Last year, I was vacillating between WP and Blogger as my blogging platform. You can see some of that here. With WP 2.7 coming out, I was tempted to try WordPress, finally this year I made the shift completely. As promised, here are my experiences with WP on my own hosting solution + domain.
You can also try this out on your <name>.wordpress.com blogs as well, but the real awesomeness comes out only with your own domain and hosting combination. Try it … it costs around Rs. 3000 odd, but definitely worth it!!
How to do it
Transferring from one platform to another was pretty simply. WP comes in with a very nifty import facility, wherein I could import all my Blogger posts with their comments (whew!). Then it was just a matter of changing the domain settings (this took more than a day to figure out!!).
Pros
The pros are the obvious ones -
I could go on, but lets leave these for now. I like the platform but it does have its peeves.
Cons
… anyone have a hack for this?Any help from you guys would be appreciated
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