Category: Software Development

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...

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...

To Optimize, or Not?

You should be forced to write efficient code and know how to do it in situations where it matters. You should also be able to...

Low-level understanding matters

If you haven't figured out how to get the most out of what you already have, don't ask me for more RAM/disk/CPU or anything else....