30% Turtleneck, 70% Hoodie
When working on a distributed system of any size, sooner or later you will hit a problem and proclaim 'well, this is a first'. My second proclamation in such situations is 'this is a nice topic for the blog'. Truth to form, I do it again, this time with the issue of running periodic tasks,... Continue Reading →
Apple said Monday that it sold more than 300,000 iPads on the first day of its launch, ushering a new era of people buying things in order to find out what they are. SNL Weekend Update, season 35, episode 18 All my life, I thought 'reaction' was a bad word. Ever since the French... Continue Reading →
If I had a dollar for every time somebody mentioned the phrase 'social' to me in the last couple of years, my pants would suffer since I tend to carry all my coins in my right pocket. With my soft credit card wallet. I carry my iPhone in my left pocket, where I carry cash... Continue Reading →
If you read my bio on the About page, you can see that I called myself an 'architect'. I made an explicit promise to apologize for that in a dedicated post at some point. According to a 2003 article by Martin Fowler, I may never be able to work at ThoughtWorks if this IBM thing does... Continue Reading →
