In a large corporation, things move extremely slowly. At my most recent job, if we wanted more disk space, it would take about 2 months to actually see the space. First there were the requests and signoffs, then the provisioning…
Mobile App development with PhoneGap
A few years ago, I had an idea for an App. At the time, I did some research and felt that Appcelerator was the right way to go. I coded the core parts of the system but began to bog…
Self-serve Backup Configuration Automation Application
While working for a major financial company, I became the development owner of an application to allow the self configuration of application server backups, There were approximately 20,000 servers in this organization and Petabytes of backups occurring nightly There was…
Why I prefer an Agile/Scrum approach to software development
After 30 years of developing software I came to the conclusion years ago that in most cases, an Agile approach to development is superior. The problems with SDLC are several fold. Most are based on deficiencies in the human element… Embarrassment…
Stumbled on a Javascript Bug
Wow, This is rare. While writing code, I stumbled on a bug in the language. In my application, I’m using the mod operator (%) and I have used it for decades successfully (although not only in JavaScript). So the…
Replacing a 100 Year old Bond Ticker Tape machine
A major financial organization had a problem. It seems that there was a very minor piece of information that is published in their newspaper on a daily basis and the machine for reading it was ancient. The machine was a…