http://jancology.com/blog/ One of the zillion personal weblogs. en-us janco.tanis@jancology.com 2008-04-14T19:26:43+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2008/04/14/a_perfect_mess.html Ok, I haven't read this book but this could be something which I should put on the desk in my office!... 658@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2008-04-14T19:26:43+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2008/01/17/wikinomics_how_mass_collaboration_changes_everything_isbn_9781591841388.html Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams This book is about how economy changed by collaborative concepts. Making business ideas freely available on internet can stimulate people to make use of it and growing your own business. It is also... 651@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2008-01-17T21:28:07+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2008/01/08/made_to_stick_why_some_ideas_survive_and_others_die_isbn_9781400064281.html by Chip Heath and Dan Heath A fantastic and entertaining book about how to communicate ideas so they stuck in peoples minds. If you start reading, you'll finish it soon. In essence, "Making things Stick" it is just about... 652@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2008-01-08T21:35:55+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2007/07/14/the_nondesigners_design_book_isbn_0321193857.html by Robin Williams Ok -- I admit -- I love design... I love holding an iPod. I write my presentations using an apple as this is more fun and might make you a bitmore creative. This book however has... 513@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2007-07-14T13:26:40+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2007/06/22/costbased_oracle_fundamentals_isbn_1590596366.html Jonathan Lewis, JL Computer Consultancy This is a very technical and theoretical book about oracle cost based query optimisation fundamentals. POINT . I have worked a day with Jonathan and he knows a lot about oracle optimisation, the hardware... 465@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2007-06-22T19:46:08+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2007/06/06/next_the_future_just_happened.html The Future just Happened This book was just written after the dot com hype and the stock market collapsed. It tells a few stories about a 15 year old boy who beats professionals in the stock market and earns... 611@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2007-06-06T21:32:32+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2007/03/22/purple_cow_isbn_159184021x.html Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable This is a remarkable marketing book by Seth Godin. It is about the fact that advertising for new products does not work anymore nowadays. Consumers are able to tun advertising almost completely off.... 592@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2007-03-22T00:45:03+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2007/03/09/top_50_scifi_books.html A list of the top 50 science fiction books. I've only read the top three... However, there is one book I missed and definately belongs tothe top 10, which is The World of Null A by AE van Vogt. The... 589@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2007-03-09T20:46:45+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2007/01/07/the_curious_incident.html off the dog in the night-time -- mark haddon This is a funny book of an autistic boy called Christopher, who found a doc killed by the BBQ-fork. He then decides to solve this mystery and to write a... 569@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2007-01-07T19:23:52+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2006/12/12/thriving_on_vague_objectives.html A Dilbert Collection by Scott Adamsl Another year of Dilbert. Another 128 pages of daily Dilberts. As funny as always. Not better nor worse as the other collections. Have fun.... 512@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2006-12-12T23:24:39+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2006/12/10/six_thinking_hats.html Edward de Bono This book offers a concept to get meetings of 30 minutes instead of 4 hours. It's about dividing thinking in six segments. white hat -- We'll only use information, facts (NOT feelings!) and truths and tackle... 562@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2006-12-10T21:25:52+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2006/09/14/software_estimation_demystifying_the_black_art.html by Steve McConnell This is one of the few books of how to estimate software but it also explains what an estimation is and its accuracy. This is done with some very good examples. I had the opportunity to... 511@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2006-09-14T13:21:48+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2006/05/14/the_mythical_manmonth.html Frederick P. Brooks This excellent book has a great number of essays about software engineering management. It shows the learnings of Brooks while working at IBM while managing OS/360 development. This book is an answer why software development was... 516@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2006-05-14T13:42:23+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2006/03/16/blink_isbn_0316172324.html Malcolm Gladwell After reading "The Tipping Point" I got this book. It was a disappointment. The book reads through a series of stories where people have this so called "blink" moment without exactly explaining how you can train it.... 498@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2006-03-16T20:00:32+01:00 http://jancology.com/blog/archives/2006/03/16/winning_isbn_0060753943.html Jack Welch Interesting no-nonsense read. It is an easy read and goes through a series of questions which were asked to Jack during his long time leadership at GE. Grouped by Company, Competition and Career... "Every Day, There Is... 467@http://jancology.com/blog/ Books 2006-03-16T19:49:25+01:00