Jim MilberyTalking DevOps with Dave MangotI recently interviewed Dave Mangot, founder of Mangoteque, on an episode of the Private Equity Funcast to discuss the ins and outs of…12 min read·Jul 5, 2022----
Jim MilberyHow to get your domain blocked by our BarracudaIf you want me to block your email domain, it’s a pretty simple process:2 min read·Oct 5, 2020----
Jim MilberyI’m not your partner, podnahNobody tries to sell me anything anymore. Instead, they offer to be my “partner.” Most emails that I get includes some variation of the…3 min read·Aug 24, 2020--1--1
Jim MilberyWe are all mostly snowflakesI am a big fan of Lewis Black’s comedy. In one of his legendary rants, he asks the audience whether or not milk was healthy for people to…4 min read·Aug 14, 2020----
Jim MilberyEnough with the superlativesStarting in the early 1980s, I came up through the technology ranks as a sales engineer. The sales representatives that I worked with and…2 min read·Jul 30, 2020--1--1
Jim MilberyWhy are we still running software on mainframes?The state of New Jersey recently put out a call for COBOL programmers to help fix problems with their unemployment system. The NJ system…4 min read·Apr 28, 2020--1--1
Jim MilberyI am never going to be your customerJim Morrison was right, strange days have found us. March 2020 is the first time in thirty years that I have gone more than two weeks…5 min read·Apr 15, 2020--1--1
Jim MilberyWhen tech-enabled process automation goes awryHertz overcharged me by six hundred dollars, and here is how it happened. I have been traveling for business since 1985, and I log about a…9 min read·Nov 19, 2019----
Jim MilberySilly vendor, segues are for kidsWe closed on a new deal at ParkerGale this week. We’re a small private equity shop, and we buy a company or two a year. In this internet…3 min read·Jun 11, 2019----
Jim MilberyMy “Maslow” hierarchy of application needsAlmost everybody is familiar with Abraham Maslow’s famous paper outlining the various levels of human motivations. Maslow’s hierarchy is…5 min read·Mar 7, 2016----