Tao Student – A Personal Site for Gary Ardito

Hello All…
I find myself back in Salt Lake City at Novell’s annual user conference Brainshare.   I have been here since Saturday in various business meetings but the actual event kicked off today.  I  thought it was a great start.  Ron’s opening remarks clarifying our strategic direction using a set of conversations with a friend metaphor [...]

I am heading off to California tomorrow to attend the latest IIW. I am very excited as I have been following the Internet Identity efforts from a far for quite a while.. acting as a voyeur on the mailing lists and getting updates from Dale Olds (colleague at Novell) as often as [...]

The idea of an all encompassing Private Identity Network that we can plug into whether on the net, using our cell phones (or pick any device), or interacting with a merchant is a nice vision. Add a benevolent overseeing agency insuring all is well with our important identity data and the vision nears utopia. [...]

We have all seen the result of different mashups like property with craigs list, the taxi mashup for Chicago/NY, even our own attempt at a mashup showing where all the architects, strategists and PMs live (thanks Niel).  They are all interesting, amusing and sometimes useful.
I think the link below is a great example of where [...]

I have posted here before that I read the Tao Te Ching along with studying Tao style Internal martial arts.  I often just open a page and find a quote and think about it.
Today I picked up on the quote:  “If the people are free of avarice and desire,
even the most cunning grifter has no [...]

The software development paradigm has clearly evolved to include “event driven” solutions as a primary design pattern. The ability to have fundamentally stateless systems execute business logic based on a business event and the current context in which the event occurs is a natural evolution from original Object Oriented to interface driven to aggregated services [...]

As I sit here in the Detroit airport waiting for my flight to Paris, I want to  acknowledge the excitement and, of course, the controversy generated by my employers, Novell, recent announcement with Microsoft.    I am personally excited by the aggressive behavior of our executives and hope all Novell employees around the world can match [...]