I bought a Kaypro II in 1983 and used it in college. It ran on CP/M. That’s an operating system that isn’t DOS or Windows. In fact, there were no graphical interfaces in computers in 1983. The Kaypro II personal computer was a marvel and a miracle. It is how I started programming. My available […]
Category: Software Development
The Interview
Technical interviews fail because technical interviewers insist on turning them into challenges. The appointment is for 10:30. Tom, the VP of Something Very Important, Dick, the CIO, and Harry, Software Engineer III sit at the other side of the table when you arrive. They arranged a single chair opposite their side of the conference table. […]
Leadership
Everyone prattles on about software leadership. Everyone wants to find the leaders. Seminars promise to build leaders. This drivel mainly appeals to the MBA and the white-shirt crowd because it speaks to their outdated, counterproductive, absolutely attractive nonsense to “the management way” of doing things they learned by running production floors when managers prowled the […]
The Hour Mill
I’ve been working in Navision… Attain… NAV… Business Central (whatever they called themselves) since 1998. It’s been a ride. From the Beginning When I first joined the community as a green (but certified) CA/L developer, I was told by the Solution Center owner how the partners ran their successful businesses. (This was long before Microsoft […]
Fuzzy Logic
Fuzzy Logic: Coding without glasses. A halfway house for Boolean values that won’t go all the way. The essay answer to a true-or-false question. Boolean values that won’t go all the way We’re impressed when computers, defined by switches that can either be on or off, do something that seems like they come up with […]