This week I have been extremely grateful that Perl is in my bag of tricks. There are two distinctions that you can make in the world of programming: people who work on lengthy projects, and people who work on short projects. I fall into the latter group, most of the…
Archive for October, 2006
Oct16
Skill sets and company size
I am seeing a growing gap between the technology used by mega corporations and by small/medium/large companies. The latest evidence of this is Port 80’s recent survey showing Microsoft IIS in complete domination of the Fortune 1000’s public Web sites. My initial reaction was to be…
Filed in: Software
Oct12
Left behind in the computer age
The world is increasingly moving towards a point where with the exception of a few specialized tasks, the bulk of the mid and high end jobs will involve nearly continuous use of some sort of computing device. While this may strike most people as being a Good…
Filed in: Software
Oct2
“Open source sounds like a great idea, in theory. But so does socialism.”
The title of this post is a quote from sci-fi scribe and Infoquake author David Louis Edelman. he elborates:So why am I down on open source’s prospects for the long term? A few reasons: 1. Open source hasn’t proven it can produce better products, just comparable ones.The reality…
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