Ken Hanley

Articles by Ken Hanley

A view from the other side

Got an e-mail recently from a good friend in France

Judge projects by their covers

On a charitable day, I'd say that the way we name IT projects isn'tnignorant, merely misguided.

Maybe the French figured it out before the rest of us did

Here's what I'm thinking: maybe we've overestimated the importance of ournindustry a little bit. Maybe we've forgotten that everything new becomesnold at some point, and that every industry, and I mean every industry, hasnto mature eventually.

The decline and fall of Tonto

The Tonto of that song always reminds me of the great symbol of our information age

What I

The Thanksgiving weekend was cool and clear here in Calgary, presenting me with a great opportunity to get out for a long walk. And a long walk on a Thanksgiving weekend presents a great opportunity to think about the things we

Don

Max Frisch, a twentieth-century Swiss writer, once defined technology asn"...the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it." Inwas ready to dismiss those words out of hand, and then I picked up thenpaper, and what Max said came back to me.

Johnny needs to start reading

He doesn't need anything but XML, or the programming language du jour, or technical magazines or discussion groups about his language of choice. And Jonny doesn't seem to want to read anything else either.

How to aim your hired guns

Remember that classic line from the Charles Dickens novel,

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