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Single Points of Failure

Over the weekend, my family had an annoying lesson in one of the basic principles of software engineering, the "Single Point of Failure". You see, when we built our house, we decided to go with a "hai-tekku" heating solution, and we're paying the price Read More...
Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 4:06 PM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

Reorgalicious

Brian Valentine may get all his news from the Official Newspaper of the Exchange Windows division (no Brian, I haven't forgotten you abandoned us :)), but I get all my news from Slashdot :) Today, I learned, much to my surprise that I'd been re-orged Read More...
Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 10:48 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

Sisyphus 'R' US

Lately I've felt like Sisyphus. It's a natural part of the process of software engineering, but it doesn't change the feeling. In every software project, after all the new code's been written, focus shifts to resolving and removing the bug backlog. Of Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:45 AM by LarryOsterman | 17 Comments

Venting steam

Ok, today I'm going to vent a bit... This has been an extraordinarily frustrating week (that's a large part of why I've had virtually no technical content this week). Think of this one as a peek behind the curtain into a bit of what happens behind the Read More...
Posted Friday, June 10, 2005 12:51 PM by LarryOsterman | 19 Comments

What if Microsoft behaved like the Coalition Provisional Authority?

So I’m listening to NPR this morning and I ran into this short article on Morning Edition: The Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq provides information on electricity production and reconstruction projects, but not on security. The coalition Read More...
Posted Monday, April 26, 2004 5:39 PM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments
 
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