I tend to talk about failure a bit on this blog. Failure is a good topic for discussion, whether it is project failure or failures by people. Why is it such a good topic to talk about? Because people fail every day and so do companies. However, in our world, people like to talk about [...]
There has been some interesting reading recently which may not seem to be related but definitely has some commonalities. The common threads in these posts may not seem obvious at first, but after some discussion I think you will see what I am talking about. First, we have seen the whirlwind marketing tour that is [...]
In today’s economy and recession, a lot of people are unemployed. There are probably a lot of people that are under-employed as well, we just do not hear about them as much. Then there are people that have a very good job at a stable company, may even like the work that they are doing, [...]
I was recently looking at Google Analytics and the data for this blog. For whatever reason, I was only looking at a two day span in the recent past, and I was focused on search keywords. One search caught my attention because it was short and was not one of the typical searches in this [...]
A few articles in the past week prompted some thinking about the industry of software development. In this case, when I say software development, I am talking about developing websites, web applications, commercial software, enterprise software and almost anything else that requires someone who can code. When comparing the industry to other scientific industries, software [...]

