Development by Davis: “Cutting the cord: Vodafone UK's revolutionary approach to mobility, flexibility & productivity” plus 3 more

Cutting the cord: Vodafone UK's revolutionary approach to mobility, flexibility & productivity
Executing external program - foreground and background
HIMSS12 in Las Vegas
How to teach undergrads how to become open source contributors without writing any code

Cutting the cord: Vodafone UK's revolutionary approach to mobility, flexibility & productivity

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Vodafone believes that working smarter will help businesses survive and thrive in a challenging economic climate. The mobile group's UK operating company is undergoing a seismic cultural shift, using its own technology to introduce a new way of working, which it believes will provide a blueprint for all businesses and organisations in the 21st century. At the heart of this transformation is the notion that it is not just what you do, but how you do it that determines business success.

Over the past two years, Vodafone UK has demonstrated new ways of working that combine

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Executing external program - foreground and background

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:05 AM PST

(Hoping to get an answer here...)

Summary:
See [link].

Details:
Try this:

1. Create a .bat or .cmd file that returns a non-zero return code. I
called mine error.cmd.

@exit 123

HIMSS12 in Las Vegas

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 08:08 AM PST

The most comprehensive healthcare IT event, the HIMSS12 Annual Conference & Exhibition, is happening this week in Las Vegas at the Venetian Sands Expo Convention Center.

This Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) event offers information, education sessions, and talks focused on critical health IT topics, and among this year's top priority issues are connectivity, interoperability, engagement, and collaboration.

Some not-to-be-missed highlights include:

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How to teach undergrads how to become open source contributors without writing any code

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:00 AM PST

Imdergrads and open source contributors without writing any code

This is the story of a college class taught inside an open source community. Last fall, I taught Release Engineering to a small group of undergraduates at Olin College, an engineering school a few miles outside Boston. The goal was to teach them how to become functional technical contributors to an open source project--without writing any code. In the hopes that others will be inspired to teach similar classes, I've written our experiences up as a case study in three pieces: cultural, technical, and "getting real."