Jim Donovan points out the top to bottom $117m IT reengineering of the NZ Immigration department equates to $234k per person. With a budget and a timeline like that, it will only take another stroke of legislation to render it all obsolete.
If there is any IT function that needs to be agile rather than waterfall, [...]

Like any other information junkie, my browser is full of open tabs of material that I would have liked to have read, but simply lost interest or took too long to read. It occurred to me that I would normally read books at a faster pace, but somehow the screen wasn’t conducive for speed reading. [...]

Dale Underwood, of Echquote writes compellingly of how the rise internet has dis-intermediated the sales department:
By 2005 it got to the point that there was almost no reason to directly contact any sales person to find product information. Just Google it.
Usually, lead is captured at the website in exchange for a free report, or whitepaper. [...]

One of the little things I found enjoyable while trying out Clojure was discovering the merge-with command. After counting the each of the subbranch and collecting the results in dictionaries, the dictionaries were merged together.

clojure.core/merge-with
([f & maps])
Returns a map that consists of the rest of the maps conj-ed onto
the first. [...]

I had printed out the list of functions and macros in the Clojure API page, and it filled out two A4 pages. Where to start though? I walked the entire clojure and clojure contrib directory and counted the number of function calls. Here are the top stats.

sym count len
clojure.core/list 3872 17
quote 2749 5
defn 1757 4
clojure.core/seq 1481 16
clojure.core/concat 1480 19
= 1074 1
let 1042 3
is 885 2
. 836 1
if 826 2
defmethod 431 9
def 407 3
complex 377 7
defn- 376 5
fn 356 2
first 346 5
defmacro 298 8
clojure.core/apply 264 18
deftest 257 7
str 252 3
when 244 4
imaginary 238 9
recur 237 5
apply 229 5
instance? 220 9
nil 217 3
and 214 3
next 208 4
cl-format 206 9
fn* 197 3
ns 194 2
map 193 3
:use 187 4
list 184 4
1 181 1
count 178 5
+ 169 1
seq 167 3
reduce 165 6
are 148 3
cons 143 4
println 141 7
or 141 2
not 135 3
loop 133 4
thrown? 127 7
* 127 1
conj 125 4
print 124 5
nth 124 3
- 116 1
doseq 114 5

Now, I have a study-plan.
Incidentally, waterfront IDE is quite [...]