The Tenth Cutter Summit Conference

Damn! I thought that I was going to be the first to blog about the upcoming Cutter Consortium Summit conference, but I see that my friend and colleague, Michael Mah, has beaten me to the punch with his own posting. Well, that’s okay: it’s a sufficiently important conference to warrant several different perspectives on the […]

$500 Toys

The techno-savvy middle-class marketplace in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia seems to have an almost unlimited capacity to acquire sexy, new electronic gadgets — from iPods to PDAs, from the latest multi-function cell-phone, to the latest N-megapixel digital camera. I’m as guilty as the rest: I’ve just recently acquired a Nikon CoolPix P3 […]

ITechLaw 2006 in San Francisco

Any excuse to visit San Francisco is a good one, as long as the San Andreas fault holds together for another couple of years. My excuse this week is the annual conference of the Information Technology Law Conference, aka ITechLaw. In past years, it has generally been held in such East Coast locations as Washington […]

Hedging Vista

I noticed an interesting article in Computerworld (”Microsoft says Vista still ‘on track’ despite Gartner doubts“)yesterday, speculating on the possibility that Microsoft may be forced to delay, once again, its much-delayed operating system, Vista. The latest fuss is based on an observation from the Gartner Group, which published a research note indicating that it […]

Immigration: if we need tomato-pickers, then we need software engineers too

I arrived in Chicago yesterday morning just ahead of the 400,000 people who were marching in favor of immigration rights; I read in this morning’s paper that the crowds were even larger in Los Angeles, and also pretty big in New York and Denver. It seems like the debate is heating up, and it’s not […]