All software has bugs. I don't care if you're Apple, Microsoft, IBM, or a smaller, leaner ISV. Your software has bugs in it. Once you accept this fact, that into each software product a little crap must fall, it becomes clear that what differentiates one software development organization from anothe...

Roundup, deals, Life Sciences Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: It’s hard for any company to raise capital in this recession, but several San Diego life sciences startups disclosed last week they had done just that. A few bright spots also appeared during a local seminar on mergers and acquisitionsR...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

How often do you have to solve a small problem that is a part of a larger project and decide to take the time to perform some seperate experiments to solve the problem, before adding the partial solution to the whole? In the past, I hardly ever did that and everytime I encounter such a situation, I ...

I found another really awesome blog - Chief Marketing Technologist, written by Scott Brinker (@chiefmartec). He writes from the intersection of marketing and IT - and as you must know by now, anything that blends boundaries is interesting to me! I wanted to specifically comment on this amazing post,...

I've gotten lots of feedback, much of it asking "what's the alternative?" to using beans and getters and setters. I'll make a deal with my skeptical readers. I'll argue the negative, with examples, if they argue the affirmative. In other words, you show me some places where you can't get around usin...

People seem to have a problem with me “changing lanes�. But that’s the way I learn things. If I totally disagree with something, I accept the fact that I may be doing so because of fear and misunderstanding. The best way to get rid of FUD is to give something a shot, and that’s what I do. I ...

At one of the jobs I was working at years back, I was a pretty successful developer. it was a startup and I was having fun. Near the end of its life though, things started falling apart and everyone had to contribute to the effort, including doing things that are not just developer-related, or reall...

Computer people just love to name things.   The server guy who names all his machines after Star Wars characters competes with the network guy who names all his routers and switches after Star Trek characters to see who has the more obscure references.  Usually the Desktop guy wins with his colle...

I felt like I'd already gotten this rant out of my system, but every time I come across the object oriented wreckage that the Java Bean and it's decendents have wrought, I get all heated up. The problem is, simply stated, that the getters and setters that get used for things like system boundaries -...