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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]