StackOverthrow

Over the past 16 months or so I have been working on a project with a co-founder.  Unfortunately I am only able to devote myself part time to it.  This was all the more frustrating since I was supporting a product I had written about three years ago for medical/lab equipment.  The sales were pretty [...]

I hadn’t been to stackoverflow in a while, but as I was browsing answers about hudson CI servers I noticed an ad from telerik.  It was a congratulations note - apparently my score on stackoverflow entitled me to a free license!
Pretty sweet.  I rarely win anything.  So before they could change their minds I signed [...]

I have seen this kind of idiotic thinking in the past - for some reason some companies selling a service or data or hardware think that they should keep their APIs/interface a secret to protect something. Protect what, exactly?

From that day on, whenever Peter walked by in the hallway, Alan and I would salute “The General”.

I don’t recall what became of the code I put into the product, but hopefully it was removed or quietly optimized out of the product by a compiler that was smarter than my managers and knew the code wasn’t getting called.

So, this is my internets blog. I am sure it will suck. There are lots out there that suck, but I will try to do so in spectacular ways.