Open Source Solutions

Anyone who follows either Nicholas Goodman or myself on Twitter (links are to our Twitter handles) or follow either this blog or Nick's Goodman on BI blog, know that I've been helping Nick out here and there with his new business, Dynamo Business Intelligence Corporation, offering support and commercial (and still open source) packages of the "best column-store database you never heard of", LucidDB.

One of the things that I'll be doing over the next few weeks is some website and community development. For all that I've been an executive type for decades, I love to keep hands-on with various technologies, and one of those technologies is "THE WEB". While I've never made a living as a web developer, I started with the web very early on, developing internal sites for the Lynx browser, as one of the internal web chiefs, learning from Comet, the Oracle web master. The first commercial site that I did, in 1994, for the local Eagle Express Flowers, is still up, with a few modernizations.

So, while waiting for the style guide from CORHOUSE, who designed the new Dynamo Business Intelligence Corporation logo [what do you think of it?]…

I've decided to go through an old friend. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

This exercise has reminded me that Information Architecture isn't just important for websites, but also for all the ways that individuals and businesses organize their data, concepts, information and knowledge. I'm happy to be helping out DynamoBI, and glad that doing so led me to this reminder of something I've been taking for granted. Time to revisit those [Ever]notes, [Zotero] researches, files and what not.