Thanks for stopping in to Business, Technology and everything in between. I have discovered over the years that I am an entrepreneur at heart and that business just absolutely fascinates me. When I was a kid, I went from one start-up idea to another. I sold greeting cards door to door when I was in elementary school and started my own woodworking business when I was in Junior High. Try as I may, I can't seem to shake the dream of starting businesses.
It makes me feel old to say this, but I've also been programming for 22 years now. I'll never forget taking computer lessons at a family friend's house over one summer. I started with the simple BASIC programs that left your name floating in patterns across the screen and, of course, it went downhill from there.
I wish now that I had majored in Computer Science rather than Math and Physics. Of course, everything I did involved computer programming. My senior project was a computer simulation of the electric field distribution in multi-layer slab waveguides and while working as an intern with the high temperature superconductor group at Argonne National Laboratory, I added color and shading to a 3-D graphing program I had written in high school and dedicated my time while on the clock to updating and writing new data acquisition programs. I just can't escape writing code.
And so, here I find myself, 22 years down the road, fascinated with the intersection of business and technology. For all of the advancements in the area of software development, you would think that we would have developed software factories (Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools) like Jack Greenfield describes in his book, but it seems that we are only at the point now where we're thinking and talking and strategizing this approach but not actually doing it in an established way in the enterprise.
So, I dedicated this blog to the ponderings and musings on the topics of business, technology and everything in between. There's certainly no end to the content that could be added here.
Currently Reading:
Head First Design Patterns (Head First)
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software