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  • Programmers are people too

    Posted July 29, 2008 - 6:17 am

    Whether the world likes it or not, programmers are people too. They eat, drink, sleep, dream and work just like everyone else. A programmer looking at the St. Louis Arch will almost certainly see something that is taller than it is wide – just like everyone else. Even when it is known that the arch is as wide as it is high, the eyes tell a different story. We cannot help the illusions we fall for.

  • Better backups

    Posted July 22, 2008 - 12:00 pm

    Terabytes of backup storage...and still the mess persists

  • Where are the Stones?

    Posted July 15, 2008 - 3:58 pm

    Dual processor? Sounds good. Is it?

  • Only the cloud can scale

    Posted July 7, 2008 - 7:26 am

    The future is shared infrastructure. The future is the cloud. Not because it is trendy but because only the cloud can scale.

  • Economic necessity is the mother of software reuse

    Posted July 1, 2008 - 9:04 am

    Here is an assertion you are unlikely to see anywhere other than in this article: an economic recession right now would do the Web the world of good.

  • Building roads versus building skyscrapers

    Posted June 29, 2008 - 9:50 pm

    What do you do for a living? If you answered "I am a programmer", or , "I am an application designer" or "I am an IT architect" or "I am an engineer" or "I am a tester" I would reply "Me too." How odd. How can I be all of those things? You are thinking the same thing I suspect. Maybe you too do all of the above too - and more? How odd!

  • Is your brain a core competency?

    Posted June 22, 2008 - 12:29 pm

    One of the golden rules of commerce is that you should not seek to outsource your core competencies. One of the golden rules of brain surgery is that you cannot cut a brain into pieces to outsource some bits of it, without doing significant damage to the owner of the brain.

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