2009-2010

Happy Holidays all, ...........now don't shoot your eye out!

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2009- 2010

Happy Holidays all, ...........now don't shoot your eye out!

Quote of the Week

"find the best in everything. Let it justify the bad and underscore the good."

-ZuCom

Situational Leadership

Situational Leadership

I was reminded today of the importance of situational leadership. As a management consultant I often meet with trusted partners and clients who are experiencing some sort of organizational shift.  Whether or not it's an entity that has good development programs there is always a need to maintain situational leadership styles.

Many organizations invest in programs on this subject and almost any MBA program includes some form or review on the practice.  It's not a particularly difficult concept to understand and it's based on the work from Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H. Schmidt (1958, 1973) who put forth the notion that a leadership style should be born from the circumstance and therefore leaders should have a range of styles in their arsenal.

In the technology industry many leaders rise to management on the backs of technical skills, and some ascend very quickly (Gates, Wozniak, Jobs are great examples).  A good leadership development program can teach situational leadership and experience can mature these skills such that anyone can become a "4 Tool Leader"™.  

This is all great stuff to review and somewhat fundamental so what is new here?  What I was reminded of today was the maintenance that accompanies this skill set and the responsibility we are empowered with to use it appropriately.  To effectively utilize this practice you must employ a healthy introspective review of situations, styles and results.  I will go as far as to say that getting feedback from other leaders familiar with the organization is also another diligence that should accompany your review.  Some leaders feel threatened at the thought of considering any post analysis of their leadership.  Many will realize value in it and nearly all who engage in the practice will grow from the experience.

How do you maintain and grow your situational leadership?

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iPhone CVS, do you use it?

For a long time I've advised clients that code management and version control tools are a prerequisites to any SDLC or SCM methodology implementation. With the popularity of iPhone apps continuing to grow in both the consumer and commercial market I am wondering what flavor are you using?


-ZuCom

Boot Snow Leopard into 64Bit Mode

The default mode for the new Snow Leopard install is 32bit mode.

Want to change that and upgrade to 64bit.

Simply change one line in the  /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist file and your Macintosh will boot into 64bit mode.  With most recent Mac's you'll see a significant performance improvement , of course the more memory you have the better and results may vary.  You can always switch back using this method

FROM THIS

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple$

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

        <key>Kernel</key>

        <string>mach_kernel</string>

        <key>Kernel Flags</key>

        <string></string>

</dict>

</plist>

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TO THIS

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=x86_64</string>

</dict>

</plist>

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Any text editor should work or you can simply use PICO by typing the following in terminal along with your root password.  

sudo pico /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

-ZuCom

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GPGMAIL for Snow Leopard-Fix (Beta)

GPGMail

The wildly popular open source GPGMail v1.2.0 plugin for OSX Mail.app does not work in Snow Leopard. This is something that was found in the later beta's and remain's a major problem in the Power User community. At issue is the use of an undocumented API in the mail bundle that is no-longer supported in the new v4 of Mail. A developer has posted an interim fix for the community which can be downloaded here. Simply unzip this file and copy it to the /Library/Mail/Bundles folder and re-start Mail and your back in business.

Mobile field of dreams

"If you build it for mobile (iPhone, Android) they will come"

-Robert Zullo @ MobileCon'09

Flash CS5 on the Rocks Please..

Chances are this one will be on ice soon as Apple doesn't appear to have been involved with usurping it's own market monopoly on iPhone development SDK's

http://www.maclife.com/article/iphone/flash_cs5_will_let_you_create_native_iphone_apps

Sort of makes you wonder what could be possible outside the AppStore

iPhone Exchange Support

Microsoft today confirmed that Exchange 2007 is now recognizing the iPhone as an actual iPhone device. Encryption support can depend on this in Group Policies and should be checked if recent upgrades are causing iPhones not to get mail. Encryption may now be enforced.

Link to Article

-ZuCom
www.zucom.com

When Green became Chic!

When Green became Chic!

I received a call from a colleague today who manages a large data center in North Carolina. About a year ago we toured this facility and while impressive and modern it was far from what someone would call "GREEN". Over the past year they have undergone a major change in thinking and have undertaken a program to make all of their IT operations and functions GREEN aware. From easy items like solar panels to more difficult items like monitoring cooling and air flow the change has been palpable, not just in technology approach but also the the bottom line.

Of course there is the savings against utilities and general facilities costs but there is also government subsidies that can make the whole pill a little easier to swallow. In most states their are programs that can help take advantage of tax breaks or incentives for for embarking on a GREEN effort. In this case the correlation from the incentives to the return was immediate and for most enterprise data centers this has to be at least a fundamental consideration at this point even with energy costs leveling off.

Whilst this was a great example of industry (and government) making a change for the good, advising clients to GREEN outside the data center space is often a more challenging situation. Government subsidies are targeted at energy and not hardware per-say. Client based GREEN efforts have come of age, and they've done so without similar government subsidies. As most know client computing has been dramatically effected by the move to the Virtualization and Mobile platforms. While clients often see an immediate impact on budgets by a reduced cost for hardware the GREEN impact of not having to run additional hardware is often lost in the fray. Making hardware refresh decisions today often is an opportunity to explore the impact of GREEN on IT as well as the efficiencies of new technology.

No matter what size organization, there are options to let GREEN find it's way into your organizational thinking for IT. Virtualization, Alternative Energy, Mobilization, and even Cooperative Cloud Computing are just a few examples and efficiencies in this space are growing every day.

Robert Zullo
Vice President, Technology Consulting
ZuCom
www.zucom.com
rzullo@zucom.com
518-496-2592

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TKIP Based WPA Cracked

http://tinyurl.com/navjvp

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Zig Ziglar

ack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem.  We all have twenty-four hour days.
	- Zig Ziglar

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PandoraBoy Code

http://code.google.com/p/pandoraboy/

 Nicely done Pandora App...

 -ZuCom

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Test2

Blogging test from the iPhone.

Sent from my iPhone

Test

WWDC 2009 Getting Ready to Start!

With this year's sell out, we are seeing a jump in corporate attendees. This meets the expectations from several clients that the growth in this area is under rated. Adoption of Agile iPhone methodologies are still in their infancy but are integrating now with corporate support.

-ZuCom

Another Great Article from the Author of the Apress hit "Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK"

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/05/opengl-es-from-ground-up-table-of.html

iTunes Beta!! FIRST

Install iTunes BEFORE you try upgrading the iPhone OS.. Simple way to solve many problems and enables the process to complete cleanly.

Many have suggested just using iTunes to do the upgrade rather than Organizer.

Iphone OS 3.0 - Candidates

ZuCom is now accepting beta candidates for the 3.0 release.

If you would like your APP professionally verified before submitting to the APP Store

Contact us at ZuCom.Com

Great Article on OpenGL ES

Great article on OpenGL ES http://tinyurl.com/dzvclo

Very powerful stuff for a phone.

-ZuCom

Battery Life - 3.0 OS

Battery Life in the new iPhone OS (EDGE) seems a bit weak. Could the optimization of a new chip be coming? Perhaps these routines aren't completely backwards optimized yet?

-ZuCom

iPhone OS 3.0 - support

First sign that you need to upgrade your hardware is when the company starts to treat you special.. Like the Edge vs 3G version of the iPhone OS.

Turns out the MMS and Stereo BlueTooth features aren't supported in the EDGE version.

Time to upgrade!!!

-RZullo

30 Million iPhones & iPod Touch

Wow.. &nbsp;imgine having 30mm potential consumers, with 24/7 access to your product, anywhere they go.. &nbsp;Hard to beat..

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0903lajkszg/event/index.html<br>

-Z

iPhone3.0 OS - on it's way

Great article on the upcoming release of the iPhone 3.0 OS. &nbsp;

While design patterns have emerged from within the iPhone Apple Developer community, it would be a bit bold to say that anything depends on these patterns for very long in this world. &nbsp;Any attempt to afix judgement of a new release of the iPhone OS to these patterns may be a bit pre-mature.

Or perhaps it's a matter of perspective? (See:&nbsp;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/daknpn">http://tinyurl.com/daknpn</a>&nbsp;re: NeXTstep)


Which ever angle you take, the addition of copy / paste into the mix will bring a new "inter-application" level of thinking into the design patterning of the iPhone software architecture. Perhaps it'll be something faceless that will be backwards compatible with all existing apps, (denoting it's really more of an OS layer addition) but the ramifications if it not being at that level is one that would surely add a new dimention to future design patterns

-RZ

Debugging Xcode

There is a great screencast &nbsp;over on the iPhone development blog&nbsp;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/abmf7h">http://tinyurl.com/abmf7h</a>&nbsp;that will really help just about anyone debug in Xcode.

-ZuCom

Marc Speaks to Charlie

Marc Speaks to Charlie

Video Here