Posted in Uncategorized, Eclipse on Oct 29th, 2007 No Comments »
I was involved in the creation of an OSGi solution for the US Army for the Super Bowl XL security. It was an early implementation of SODA. It connected all the various nuclear, biological and chemical sensors that the US Army National Guard and US Department of Energy were using to detect hazardous materials. The […]
Posted in Software, Managing engineers on Oct 9th, 2007 3 Comments »
A micro-multinational is a company with less than 500 employees with offices in more than two countries. Managing software development in a micro-multinational is not a trivial matter. Without proper tools, a company can burn all of its energy just putting out the fires caused by miscommunication. The proper tools can mean the difference between […]
Posted in Software on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Engineers often become quite zealous over a new technology. “This will change the world!” they cry, “And replace all the other existing stuff!” The new technology may change a part of how the world does certain things (which is the engineer’s whole world, perhaps), but rarely if ever will replace the existing stuff.
To explain […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Software, Strategy on Jul 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
Picture the pool of available skilled workers as an inverted pyramid.
At the bottom of the inverted pyramid are the hard core software and computer engineers. The hard core workers create the basic stuff necessary for computers, such as compilers and operating systems.
The next level up are architects or engineers. Architects build large-scale […]