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Retrospective 2011: “A sadder and a wiser man” no more.

Posted by dustin in Product Ownership, Software on January 2, 2012

It is the end of the year, the beginning of the year, or rather, it is that logical break where I hope we at least retrospect on where we are and where we might go in the coming times.

While we cannot control what might lie in front of us, we certainly can steer the

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Personally, I’m Thankful for Startup Culture

Posted by dustin in Software on December 2, 2011

The startup culture as of late has been taking its lumps on Hacker News and other places, and that’s fine. There are a lot of different perspectives, and I’m not here to tell you which one is right. But I will tell you that being in a startup again is the best thing that has happened

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Well REST-ed

Posted by dustin in Uncategorized on September 24, 2011

So Matt and I were talking about routing, REST and resources yesterday. At StirTrek this spring Mike Amundsen gave a talk entitled: Programming the Cloud with HTTP/REST. Three of the things I took away from there were:

Reconsider the links were propagating. What has to do with the resource one is requesting? What is metadata pertinent to the request? Route accordingly. People have

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A Week with WCF

Posted by dustin in Software on September 23, 2011

We are at a point where what was our internal API now must live in the wild as some business partners now need access to different levels of our engine. I’ve written those awful web asmx services in C# enough to know that approach wasn’t going to cut it. I wasn’t sure people were even

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Under-Engineering is a Beautiful Start to Any Project

Posted by dustin in Software, Uncategorized on September 22, 2011

If you think about a lot of things in life, they’re over-engineered to the point of no return, aren’t they? Cars are a good example of going well past the realm of must-have. Have you ever lifted the hood on a 1974 BMW 2002? I did, and that squashed any thoughts I had of buying

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Weird is the One Thing You’ve Got Going for You

Posted by dustin in Software on September 21, 2011

I saw this morning that Seth Godin’s next book is titled:

We’re All Weird

Weird is new and weird is why this world is a great place to be.

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Godin has always embraced different ways of doing things, challenging the status quo, and going his own way. He’s the ringmaster in the creative tent,

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Netflix’s Guilty Ignorance and a Social Wildfire

Posted by dustin in Software on September 21, 2011

I admit, I didn’t expect to have thoughts on the Netflix implosion, but I guess I do, and so it goes.

Netflix’s lack of understanding their customer in the information age is simply unacceptable.

The outcome of poorly executed company strategy and every knee-jerk decision at the corporate level is a potential social wildfire. How much

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Non-technical success

Posted by dustin in Software on September 20, 2011

Living a life immersed in technology, sometimes I forget the massive power that we wield with just a few keystrokes or mouse clicks.

My grandmother was born in 1926. She and her siblings were children of a pre-technical era.

I spent some time over the past few days cleaning up some photos of her from the

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I can’t see for miles and miles

Posted by dustin in Software on September 19, 2011

Skype has fundamentally changed a lot of things in our family. My father-in-law works in China often enough and the cost of calling has become a non-issue by using Skype video calls. The quality for a real-time video going halfway around the world has always been impressive.

His first trip was in 2006. He’s been back several

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Perception debt and when doing right is no longer possible

Posted by dustin in Uncategorized on September 18, 2011

A few days ago, I tweeted that I really didn’t care to hear to much more about Windows 8 and the things coming out of the Build conference.

I lied and I’m sorry.

I couldn’t resist downloading and installing the full Win 8 package. I had it running in VirtualBox in about 35 minutes. I

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