Archive for January, 2010

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Real Life versus Academia

first day of class was beautiful as the crew from “Revolution Books” sold the class texts in between a speech of class struggle and such. Revolution Books is the publishing wing of an avowed Communist Organization based partly in New York City (Where else!).

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Sunday, January 10th, 2010

RealTime News and New York Jets NFL 2010 Wildcard Playoff Game

As I was working during the time of the New York Jets Playoff game on Saturday January 9th, 2010 (working on the computer that is) I decided to experiment with Google’s Realtime feature and a query of New York Jets. Of course I could have turned on the radio or streamed video of the game [...]

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Friday, January 8th, 2010

Global Resourcing of Software Engineers - Part 1 of N

Outsourcing is not a new topic especially when it comes to Software Engineering. I remember at the beginning of my own career ; the dinosaurs
represented by the mainframe applications and the developers that maintained them. Overwhelmingly Cobol/CICS applications , some of the applications were already a generation old (a human generation that is). [...]

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