I used to think developing for the Internet would be no different than any other sort of product development: there would be some sort of software methodology used to write products, which would ship on a given timetable, with features reduced and a complete QA cycle done prior to releasing a product. The only difference [...]
Suppose there is this system which is designed to process data. Suppose data goes into that system via a JMS queue, where that data is processed, and depending on the results of that processing, the data is put into one of two outgoing queues. Now suppose the following: (1) if the data isn’t correctly pulled [...]
Microsoft makes a bid to acquire Yahoo!. Ballmer’s letter to Yahoo: We want you Ballmer’s memo to his troops Which, in a way, is irritating to me: I had planned to write a very long post about the sorts of questions one should ask when one is interviewing at a company–which was going to include [...]