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A Tale of Two Banks
In the past few weeks I have started work on a major software development effort. It is a very complex bit of software for capturing images from high-performance cameras and reducing them mathematically to functions used in high-end digital rendering. The process is very complicated mathematically and computationally intense, in some cases requiring as much [...]
The Inevitability of DIY
In the course of my career I have been involved in a fair number of startups. I’ve had pretty good luck, and most of them have been successful. One, however, was a complete failure. I refer to that experience as my DIY MBA. You can learn more from failure than you can from success. It [...]
Turtles, BART, and Stock Trades
Did you ever catch a box turtle when you were a kid? They are beautify, affable and interesting little fellows. If you see one, catching them is no problem. You just walk over and pick it up. Even though it has a razor sharp jaw, its instinct is not to bite, but to pull in [...]
Janus
I was part of a panel at a university recently speaking to prospective computer science students. The panel members were from industry — a few of the biggest companies and few smaller ones. We each had ten minutes to speak before QA, so I stripped my talk down to two simple points. The first point [...]
An apology to our friends and colleagues
Cigital is in the business of making software secure, often by telling our clients precisely how and why their software is not secure. There are an almost infinite number of ways to be vulnerable so it should be no surprise that we rarely find the perfect system. I’m tempted to say never, but I’d have [...]
I Hate to Admit It, but Those Network Guys Are Pretty Smart
I am strong advocate of service oriented architectures. I have seen them work—not in theory, not in demonstration, but in real, deployed, mission critical applications. In sitting down to write this blog entry I was going to do yet another “SOA – Hype vs. Reality” essay. I’ve written a lot of these over the past [...]
