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Recently a friend of mine issued a plea on Facebook: “Calling all techies! [My wife] lost her contacts on iPhone during her latest sync. I’m restoring from a two-year-old backup, her second-most-recent backup, but wanted to restore from her contacts in her mail system. Unfortunately, she has a Mac but uses Outlook. This isn’t even
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Blue Badge
With apologies to Scott Hanselman…. I’m going to work for Microsoft. I’m joining the Enterprise Strategy, Architecture & Cloud Vantage team as an IP Development Architect. This role is an enterprise architect that creates artifacts to support the strategy and planning process. (That’s straight from the link, if you are a tl;dr kind of person.)
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Enterprise Application Integration in Five Minutes
After I posted my 15 minute demo and discussion of Retrospect, I received a few requests to post a shorter version. Here it is. Retrospect: The TL;DR Version Click through and watch in HD to get the full experience.
Refactoring Existing Systems into Web Services with Retrospect
Some of the things I’ve worked on my career—in fact, some of the most exciting and innovative things I’ve worked on—never really took off. There’s a statistic somewhere about how many software projects fail, another one about how many startups fail, and yet another about how many ideas never go anywhere. All I know is
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The Confluence of IT and Manufacturing
One of my most exciting projects was working for an electric utility in Substation Design in 1995. I was in charge of maintaining an active list of all the materials that were needed for building electrical substations. The chief engineer’s requirements were basic and simplistic: create something that tracked substation construction materials, like clevis joints
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I Kan Has Kanban
Managing different versions of your resume with Mercurial
Recently I was in the market for a new job, and after nearly twenty years’ experience, I found myself looking at several different possible positions, including enterprise architect, software architect, solutions architect, CTO, VP Engineering, VP Product Management, director of IT, and so on. These different positions don’t work with the “one size fits all”
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A Change
As of this past Monday, I’m no longer Chief Technology Officer at Future Health. That means I am now able to write freely about projects I’m working on, opinions I have about technology and the market, and more. It also means I get to work on new things with more hands-on development, more customer interaction,
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Developing Your Passion
Last week I launched http://summerofrob.com. I agonized over the decision of which technology stack to use. At first, I started working on a Ruby on Rails app for the site. Then I thought I should use ASP.NET MVC because it’s what we use at work. Finally, I decided to just freaking ship it, so I
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