Business

Reflecting on holidays

As the holiday rush is winding down, I sit here reflecting on all the companies that lost business/revenue over the…

[something] DevOps

Yesterday, at the #watercooler, we were talking about the principals of DevOps (and how they were applied before the term was cool) and sharing war stories about organizations that preferred to intentionally wall off individual technology groups. Conversation turned to how running the code in…

Time heals everything

Many years ago I was working with a very large customer, both from user-base and traffic perspective, with a pretty…

Let’s get personal

Last week, I was doing some research about my upcoming trip to Tanzania. I was browsing the web, looking for good deals on…

Anatomy of business driven CMS

Content Management Systems (CMS) have become one of the most powerful internet-related products. What once was a gadget for web developers and technology geeks is now a must-have tool for various business units. Because of the pace at which the world of internet technology…

Your code may be elegant

… but mine f***ing works

Breaking social dependency

“OMG, Facebook is DOWN!!!” was the cry of the millions when Facebook was unavailable for about 3 hours because…