Sean McGrath http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/483/all xx Programmers are people too http://www.itworld.com/networking/53818/programmers-are-people-too 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. http://www.itworld.com/networking/53818/programmers-are-people-too#comments Development Networking Opinion Distributed Computing RPC Sean McGrath Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:17:46 -0400 Sean McGrath 53818 at http://www.itworld.com Better backups http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/53686/better-backups Terabytes of backup storage...and still the mess persists http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/53686/better-backups#comments Hardware Personal tech Opinion Backups NAS Storage Sean McGrath Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:00:51 -0400 Sean McGrath 53686 at http://www.itworld.com Where are the Stones? http://www.itworld.com/software/53503/where-are-stones Dual processor? Sounds good. Is it? http://www.itworld.com/software/53503/where-are-stones#comments Hardware Software Opinion Benchmarking Sean McGrath Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:58:10 -0400 Sean McGrath 53503 at http://www.itworld.com Only the cloud can scale http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/53445/only-cloud-can-scale The future is shared infrastructure. The future is the cloud. Not because it is trendy but because only the cloud can scale. http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/53445/only-cloud-can-scale#comments Development Offbeat Opinion cloud computing Sean McGrath Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:26:24 -0400 Sean McGrath 53445 at http://www.itworld.com Economic necessity is the mother of software reuse http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/53396/economic-necessity-mother-software-reuse 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. http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/53396/economic-necessity-mother-software-reuse#comments Internet Offbeat Opinion Recession Internet Constraints Sean McGrath Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:04:43 -0400 Sean McGrath 53396 at http://www.itworld.com Building roads versus building skyscrapers http://www.itworld.com/software/53364/building-roads-versus-building-skyscrapers 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! http://www.itworld.com/software/53364/building-roads-versus-building-skyscrapers#comments Development Software Opinion programming Sean McGrath Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:50:32 -0400 Sean McGrath 53364 at http://www.itworld.com Is your brain a core competency? http://www.itworld.com/tech-society/53248/your-brain-core-competency 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. http://www.itworld.com/tech-society/53248/your-brain-core-competency#comments Development Tech & society Opinion career Sean McGrath skills Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:29:54 -0400 Sean McGrath 53248 at http://www.itworld.com