Archive for March, 2007
Theatre: The good life
The whole cast hasn’t received its notice, so I won’t be too obvious, I hope. But this is for my character’s wife.
The play is Noel Coward’s Long Island Sound, a recently discovered Coward play first produced in 2002–more than 50 years after Sir Noel wrote the piece. For you edification, I link [...]
Move Your Company and Your Career Forward
If you want to move your company—and your career—forward, concentrate on moving your product forward. Obvious, perhaps, but the concept gets little more than lip service in many organizations.
Most of my career in software development has involved web-based products that my companies sell or license to client businesses who, in turn, provide the applications [...]
Ameren: World’s Worst Company?
After Ameren wiped out Johnson Shut-Ins State Park in southeastern Missouri, some of felt a little sorry for the company. Six months after that tragedy, a powerful thunderstorm knocked down power lines and transformers, leaving more than 100,000 Ameren customers without electricity – some for more than week. Still, Ameren had viable defenses. [...]
Free Agents
Maybe it was the times.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s—even after 9/11—the people I worked with were friends. We socialized after work, attended each other’s weddings, and held heart-felt happy hours for our friends who left the company, voluntarily or not, to pursue “other opportunities,” as the official e-mail usually read.
Those were [...]
Have We Taken Metadata Too Far
Recently, I’ve had the task of explaining to clients why it’s more difficult and error-prone to change their web applications’ configuration metadata than to change code. They don’t take my story well. After all, the whole idea of many web applications is configurability. By that I mean that a non-programmer can change, add, or remove [...]
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