Actors are a way of visualising a solution, so how do you see actors and your business? This article examines a number of view points for you to review. Object oriented programming sees everything as objects. The actor model in computer science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation. Seeing everything as actors rather than objects In marketing, marketing actors can be divided into three groups: customers, …
Sandboxes are technological solutions your teams can experiment with which will not affect live operations. How as a manager can you use them? How do you work with your suppliers to see what will happen? This article puts forward some of the pros and cons of sandboxes and provides a quick sense check for you to review your sandbox. Sense …
Coding styles are a contentious discussion point amongst programmers and your style choices will affect your entire team. As “the project” grows, 2018-09-24 saw the introduction of the library structure which maximises reusability in any platform. The output of today’s work were the initial libraries and a working engine to record suggestion ideas. https://philipalacey.com/project/suggestion-data.php A perfect time to go over …
20180923 – Getting set up sees the first efforts to get a platform to develop on up and running. To that end the result is there is a local and a hosted solution up and running by the end of this article. https://philipalacey.com/project/project.php Whilst I understand not everyone may have a technical interest in this kind of article it may …
Project nameless finally got its name in 2019. I am proud to introduce, WhereWeLearn Introduction video to WhereWeLearn The introduction video is now available as The original video for the project is available here. WhereWeLearn’s Vision Delivering to the world the capability in which every human being can experience the joy of education for free in a global context. …
Female Titans. This article is an homage to some examples of powerful and thought leading women I’ve had the privilege of meeting. I am a proud uncle and godfather to two girls and hopefully for that to be more in the near future. When asked for technical and business role models I want them to be able to see that, …
APIs and the conversation about what they do has intensified over the last decade. What are APIs and how are they helpful? This article examines in business terms what an API is and how they can be leveraged. Who’s got the remote control? Types of APIs Security concerns Building one [read more=”Read more” less=”Read less”] Who’s got the remote control? …
Birthday. Your birthday. That annual event that leaves you wondering what to say, do and expect. Time to reverse this one a little. 2 years ago on this day I wanted the world. 1 year ago on this day I just wanted to live. This year I want to give a little something back. Firstly, thank you for taking the …
Insourcing is a big strategic decision to do work using in house teams, the opposite of outsourcing. What’s involved in getting your business ready? Every business is different, each process is unique, yet the general approach to insourcing is consistent across industries. This article examines three areas. The first are the metrics to keep an eye on when developing your …
Artificial Intelligence is a massive area which is currently growing at an incredible rate. How and why is this happening? This article attempts in plain English to explain the major concepts of the area of AI and it’s associated fields. I’m going to do my best to explain this without using maths or using programming… good luck me! I will …