Fourteen years ago yesterday, I left Starbase Corporation to found MyST Technology Partners, Inc., with fellow ex-Starbase software guy, Bill French. That anniversary, together with yesterday’s announcement that Microsoft intends to acquire LinkedIn for a staggering $26.2 billion in cash, got me…
As a long-time software entrepreneur, I’ve developed a fascination with—and a reliance upon—the open source software industry. For years, I relied on RSS feeds, Twitter feeds, and a variety of other sources to help me stay abreast of the latest…
I just read a thoughtful article, Revisiting XP: be a thoughtful programmer by exercising more collective ownership. The article discusses various recommendations for building, and being part of, a high-quality, high-performing–and highly-enjoyable–software development team. This is what I call a “software A-team”.…
Since first writing about the new open source Java project, Mensa, I’ve received a number of questions asking who is the target audience, what specific problems Mensa solves, and how it might actually be used. In this post, I address those questions. I…
I have been developing commercial software for more that thirty years. Now, I’m pleased to announce that, for the first time, some of my software has been released as a new Dell/Quest open source Java project, named Mensa. Mensa is a generic, flexible,…
I started writing a new post this morning about one of my favorite topics: levels of abstraction. While looking for references, I ran across this post I wrote for Google+ on January 6, 2012. So, with the author’s permission, I’ll…
Yesterday, I stumbled across a four year old blog post that made me laugh, A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages. When I mentioned this online, my friend and fellow software conspirator, Scott Rehorn, made a brilliant…