Can You Dumb it Down?

One of the benefits of knowing you’re not the smartest person in the room (any room), is that you don’t have the pressure of constantly having to prove it. Long ago I accepted the distinction of being utterly average. I used to claim I was merely…

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,…

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…

Time is Money

I can remember the day when all of our televisions had antenna and our telephones had cords. Today, of course, this has switched. I don’t mean to date myself (I did enough of that in High School – hardeee har har). I’m just saying that we u…