Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Temptation of the Untried

The technology industry, by and large, is inhabited by early adopters. It’s how most of us got here, after all. You learn to work with “high-tech” equipment by doing it and you do it because you want to play with the latest shiny new toys.
But the latest, of course, is also the least [...]

Minimize Required Data

There’s a long-standing tendency for software to enforce completeness and consistency in stored data. It has never truly been necessary in the real world and it has become something of a monster with the rise of the internet as websites seem to be constantly outdoing each other to collect every conceivable piece of information [...]

What I Do

I always seem to have a difficult time explaining to people the sort of work that I do. I write software, but focus on behind-the-scenes functionality, not the up-front interface that everyone sees. No matter how carefully I try to explain this, it always ends up with me describing a website that I’ve [...]

Welcome to the NomadNet Blog

There are a lot of blogs out there and many people are saying that they’re the top new way for a business to communicate with its customers (and potential customers), or at least a way to maintain a nice flow of content to keep yourself in the search engines’ eyes, so here’s another one going [...]