On this my initial post, I want to start with an explanation to the somewhat grandiose title of this blog. You see, Cortexa's brand slogan is 'Building Web Intelligence' and so it was only natural that we would reflect the corporate identity in the naming of our corporate blogs of which there is this technically focused one (Technical Intelligence Blog) and a corporate learning focused one (Learning Intelligence Blog) written by Cortexa's Managing Director, Mark Parrish.

However, with corporate branding aside, I feel the title of this blog is apt because I do indeed intend to write technical content which is intelligent in the true sense of the word. Please don't misunderstand me, I am not claiming to be particularly intelligent myself, nor should you expect to find technical content of rocket science proportions on here, but simply content which will hopefully be insightful and purposeful relating to software development which has been born out of our own real world experiences.

The actual definition of intelligence is "The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge". As we at Cortexa develop our own software solutions, some of which are e-learning focused and some are not, we naturally go through this process of thinking, reasoning, acquiring and applying which ultimately results in experience and it is this experience that I seek to share on this blog as time permits me.

In summary then... with this blog I simply aim to share some of my knowledge of e-learning technical solutions as well as general software development and architecture experiences and as much as possible with a real world application.