Archive for the ‘Algorithms’ Category

If you could unlearn everything you know, and start again…

3, Mar 2010

Einstein wasn’t wrong when he said the only thing that got in the way of his learning was his education. Learning how to think — creatively to solve problems, to find dots and connect them, are skills that are hard to find, hard to develop, especially when we can get into a trance with technology.

I think we’re most alive when we create.

Ooops – Automation can be dangerous

24, Feb 2010

So… had a bit of a mixup.

February was a bit of a busy month for me so I wrote some content in advance to publish for sure, and to add more when I had the chance..

Evidently, PHP and wordpress do not work out of the box to automaticaly publish scheduled content.

Maybe I should go to a ColdFusion blog. :)

In any event, my apologies, I’ll post the rest and it should show up on the RSS feeds.

Safety, security and storage of information and passwords

3, Feb 2010

In creating software, be it a startup or a client project, key decisions need to be made and implemented based on security.

In the world of security I have learnt a few things, usually the long way.

Great Software Systems

2, Jan 2010

Happy New Year!
The past few weeks I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to continue to build in 2010.
Whether you are on the business side of technology, or the implementation side, there are some common elements to all projects no matter the viewpoint.
Great software systems:

Make users great. Make your users awesome at what they do [...]

Startup Lesson Learnt: Building a Web application vs Desktop

23, Sep 2009

I build a Web application when I don’t want to:

- be supporting a thousand environments each with their own quirks. Specifically, viruses, trojans, software interfering, and making it work the same everywhere.

- worry about applying upgrades and taking lots of calls

Batch Processing and Data Parsing best practices in ColdFusion

7, Jul 2009

One thing I’ve found myself doing more and more in ColdFusion is using it for it’s integration powers to parse data, or do batch performing tasks. With it’s Java underbelly, ColdFusion does most things great, and if you want even more performance, tie into the Java layer!

I come from the group of people who pursue the dream that computers and technology should make people’s lives easier. That’s why ruthless automation is at the center of most startups, or businesses that are growing. Keep people dealing with people — what they do best, and let your system handle the details for you!


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