Category: Other Tech

SCaLE 21x is coming!

I'll be running a track for the SoCal Linux Expo (aka "SCaLE"), which has been my go-to favorite tech conference for many years. I remained...

Anti-Patterns in tech costing

I recently gave another presentation for the Vancouver software development managers. Not my greatest, but I still like the idea and it needs to be...

My most important lesson

Our customers don’t come to us because we have the best technology, they come to us because we provide a better value....

Lessons from the top of a snowy hill

Things are rather treacherous out there. In my neighborhood, we have new-fallen (unplowed) snow, on top of wet (now frozen) fallen, partly-decayed, slippery leaves that...

How I became “glue”

As has often been the case in my life, I was in a category of people who were not supposed to exist. I was that...

Software is hard

A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a...

SCE to AUX

DevOps Lessons from Apollo 12. 90 Seconds that defined what it means to do good work under pressure....