Interesting and funny.
I just realized I hadn't been posting in a little while. It's actually good news, after a slow month of December projects are seemingly piling up at the beginning of the year!! More on this later...
In the meanwhile, here is a short selection of recent articles I enjoyed reading:
Happens every day at the XWiki Office in Paris:
All the pictures are great. I was struck by those:
Quite a different view of the reality of war than that pictured in most movies. Imagine being under the threat of IEDs, suicide bombers and rogue soldiers 24/7, being forced to carry your gun with you for lunch, knowing you might be attacked at any time... The fate of the afghan population is terrible as well, stuck between fundamentalists and corrupt politicians.
I'm really impressed by the way Skype handled communications around their massive outage of last week. They promptly communicated about it through a variety of channels (website, blogs, twitter), provided regular updates, acted fast to solve a complex problem and then went on to publish a rather detailed post-mortem post that I encourage you to read: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/cio_update.html
Compared to Tumblr's communication about its outage, Skype really set the bar high. While Tumblr hardly communicated about the outage and the action undertaken to bring the site back, Skype's CEO himself (or at least someone acting on his behalf) published several posts about the outage while it was still underway.
While we're at this, you might also be interested in this presentation on "the Upside of Downtime":