Posted in Managing engineers on Apr 27th, 2007 No Comments »
At XMLSolutions, Paul Lyman would ask the developers, “What is your hit-by-a-bus plan?” The question is quite simple in its intent. If one of your team members is hit by a bus on the way to work one morning, does the rest of the team have enough information at their hands to soldier on without […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2007 No Comments »
“What a glorious morning this is!”
– Samuel Adams (to John Hancock at the Battle of Lexington, Massachusetts, 19 April 1775)
Posted in Economics on Apr 19th, 2007 No Comments »
What is the economic theory of shared infrastructure? Surely someone has addressed the theory, but I cannot find it. This particular economic theory will have a far more significant impact on the 21st Century economies that it did in the pass. Thus, I am very eager to find it and study it. Where is it?
Posted in Start ups on Apr 16th, 2007 No Comments »
When I founded XMLSolutions in April 1998 with six other motley fellows, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3) had only published Extensible Markup Language (XML) the month before. At that time, we did not know where the real impact of XML would occur. No one did. If they said they did, they were full of […]