For 2012, I Pledge to Gain Weight

This year will be different. I am going to oscillate through various diet and exercise programs until I am 20 pounds heavier. I am going to eat more salt, and wait longer to reply to emails and voicemail. I know these don’t sound like good goals, …

For 2012, I Pledge to Gain Weight

This year will be different. I am going to oscillate through various diet and exercise programs until I am 20 pounds heavier. I am going to eat more salt, and wait longer to reply to emails and voicemail. I know these don’t sound like good goals, …

Naming is Everything

A project manager and very good friend of mine once called and asked to speak with me, urgently, and privately. I was somewhat intrigued and suspicious. She wasn’t given to flights of fancy, so I couldn’t imagine the issue.

She enters my office,…

Naming is Everything

A project manager and very good friend of mine once called and asked to speak with me, urgently, and privately. I was somewhat intrigued and suspicious. She wasn’t given to flights of fancy, so I couldn’t imagine the issue.

She enters my office,…

Architecture Purity

What would you get if you put a drop of sewage in a barrel of wine? 

Pretty much the same thing you’d have if you put a drop of wine in a barrel of sewage. i.e.  sewage.  Personally, I wouldn’t drink from either barrel. There is something to…

Good Architecture, Bad Implementation

I’m not particularly resilient to bouts of insanity as readers of this blog will surely know. I skirt precariously close to the edge of hyper-expressiveness over the simplest topics. For example, just ask me about using production data in QA. Ju…

Good Architecture, Bad Implementation

I’m not particularly resilient to bouts of insanity as readers of this blog will surely know. I skirt precariously close to the edge of hyper-expressiveness over the simplest topics. For example, just ask me about using production data in QA. Ju…

Architecture: Context is Everything

If you run into me somewhere outside of work, don’t be offended if I don’t remember you. It’s a condition I have – called being human. The story you are about to read is true, only a name has been changed to protect the unfortunate Joe who had th…

Architecture: Context is Everything

If you run into me somewhere outside of work, don’t be offended if I don’t remember you. It’s a condition I have – called being human. The story you are about to read is true, only a name has been changed to protect the unfortunate Joe who had th…

Vanishing Volumes of Voicemails

I used to get a ton of voicemails, dozens everyday; so many that even after I had responded to all of them and gone home, by the next morning there would be another three waiting.  But, not any more.  At first, I was worried.  Was I no longer in the…