Year: 2015

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How much can technology actually improve collaboration?

Communication and collaboration are not synonymous. One is a simple exchange of information, the other is the co-creation of shared outcomes that are richer than they would be otherwise because the participants respond to learning and insight during the process itself.

How much can technology actually improve collaboration? | ZDNet  http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-much-can-technology-actually-improve-collaboration/

Good explanation of the promise of and problems with modern collaboration tools. Tech isn’t a silver bullet.

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Build nginx with Google PageSpeed module for better performance

This tutorials explains how to build nginx with the latest version of the nginx_pagespeed module on Debian Jessie. The PageSpeed module applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and therefore speeds up your web site and reduces load times.

How to build nginx with Google PageSpeed module on Debian 8 (Jessie) https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/nginx-with-ngx_pagespeed-on-debian-8-jessie/

Seems like an interesting weekend project.

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My Twitter Digest for 04/30/2015

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My Twitter Digest for 04/28/2015

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Syncthing for syncing data between devices

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it’s transmitted over the Internet.

Source: Syncthing

Interesting. Unlike the open source ownCloud that does rely on a central server this appears to use a peer to peer strategy to sync data between devices you select with no hub server. See Syncthing’s Getting Started page for more details. The whole thing is open source and available on Github.