We’ve been doing a lot of interviewing lately, looking for developers, QA folk and deployment engineers. We’ve looked at hundreds (if not thousands) of resumes, performed numerous phone and live interviews but made only a handful of offers. It’s been difficult to find people with the skills that we’re looking for.
Likewise Software is in the [...]
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In my last post I bemoaned that current efforts around cloud computing are pretty primitive. I closed with a comment that I had some thoughts about what a true cloud computing platform should look like. This post goes into that topic, albeit yet at a high-level.
I think that a cloud operating system (let’s call it [...]
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I’ve been reading a lot of references to the coming of age of cloud computing. The more I read the more I am disappointed. In many cases, for example Amazon’s EC2, cloud computing seems like marketing-speak for “an easy way to rent virtual machines.” Amazon gives you some Web services that let you on-the-fly, allocate [...]
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It is my premise that, despite its monopolistic practices, Microsoft has succeeded by winning the minds of software developers. The Windows API, OLE/COM, the Win32 API, the distributed systems architecture, ODBC, .NET - these are all examples of API provided by Microsoft that have had tremendous impact on the industry. Even as developers decry their [...]
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Let me start out by admitting that I haven’t done a whole lot of client-side scripting. I’ve written a few DHTML scripts in vbscript and in jscript, but I haven’t written a hard core Ajax application.
That said, the RIA (Rich Internet Application) technology has always seemed terribly crude to me compared to what’s available for [...]
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