Posted in IT on Aug 30th, 2010
When Google announced Chrome, I was excited, especially due to performance advantages. Those advantages still exist as of today, and Firefox is becoming more of a bloated software, or at least it feels that way. For a while, Chrome has been my primary browser, since its performance is really good.
However, I realized that I can’t […]
Posted in IT, development, healthcare on Aug 17th, 2010
XML has a billion uses in software development. It is being used in everything from persistence to GUI representation, with lots of weird edge cases included in the mix. Personally, I do not like XML, because I can’t read it comfortably. I’ve always seen it as a computer to computer communication mechanism which is readable […]
Posted in IT, healthcare on Jul 22nd, 2010
Wow! I do not know how I should feel about this. Heather Leslie of Ocean Informatics wrote on Twitter that MS is leaving the HIS market, and as you can read here, it is true.
Now I’ve written about Amalga more than 2 years ago, and I was excited about what it may become. I was […]
Posted in IT, healthcare on Jul 6th, 2010
Wow! I can’t believe I have not written anything for two months.Well, time to catch up then.
Ibelieve that EHR implementation is not taking off because of some fundamental problems, and I’ve written about them before. Check out my previous posts for anti-patterns in EHR implementation.One of the things I have not mentioned (or maybe I […]
Posted in IT on Apr 11th, 2010
Now that James Gosling has left Oracle, the trend has become even more obvious: key people who have made Java a success, are leaving Oracle.
This is not news to me, but I had hopes of being wrong about my expectations. I’ve watched Oracle acquire some very capable technology firms, focusing on Java, and one by […]