William Grosso @ December 21, 2008
I spoke at SDForum on December 4. It happened like this:
Sometime over the summer, I was unemployed. I had just left Engage, wasn’t yet at Twofish, and was playing around with some ideas and some technologies.
Paul O’Rorke, who ought to know better, invited me to speak at the SAM SIG.
I accepted and said something like [...]
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William Grosso @ December 21, 2008
For the past three years, I’ve been fairly low-profile. Almost no public speaking1, no articles or books, and very little community activity at all2
The reason was clear: I’ve got a 2.5 year old son and, as those of you with children know, they can absorb almost all your time. So, between the family and the [...]
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William Grosso @ October 5, 2008
Note: I posted this in a comment on scripting news this morning. And then thought– it’s a nice summary of how I’m thinking this election season. Why not put it on my own blog?
As part of that, I also corrected capitalization and spellings.
So, I’m neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I’m kind of a [...]
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William Grosso @ October 2, 2008
Update: by far the best commentary on the bailout has been over in the Becker-Posner blog,
So, for the past week. aside from a few moments pondering tonight’s “debate”1, I’ve been pondering the bailout plan.
Followers of my facebook feed know, of course, that I think the bailout is a bad idea. Even after my lunch [...]
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William Grosso @ September 27, 2008
Another week, another great SDForum Event.
I’ve been a volunteer at SDForum for a while, helping it educate the valley about the almost-bleeding edge in software. And, I’m proud to say: the organization is continuing to do amazing things.
Witness: the cloud computing event.
With our typical quasi-engineering skill at marketing, the first thing you see is the [...]
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William Grosso @ July 20, 2008
I got an email today from a consulting service looking to outsource some Lucene contracting. Somehow, someway, they got my name and thought “Hmmm. We could send some Lucene consulting his way.”
That reminded me of the startup I founded in 2003. I was relatively new to the idea of founding my own company and, for [...]
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William Grosso @ July 18, 2008
From craigslist today. Since that ad will expire, here’s the entirety
Exciting startup in downtown Palo Alto is seeking a motivated, smart computer science graduate or student who has a passion for Ruby on Rails. We are looking for the following skills:
• Expert in Ruby language
• Expert in Rails 2+ framework
• Good knowledge of in [...]
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William Grosso @ July 16, 2008
SDForum’s community suffered a great loss when Barbara Cass retired.
The loss is even greater now.
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William Grosso @ July 12, 2008
THE BACKGROUND:
In the bad old days, before everything was on-line and available in structured ways, people used postal mail to send paper copies of their resumes to potential employers.
And, a surprisingly large percentage of the time, their resumes were inaccurate. A somewhat smaller percentage of the time, the resumes were deliberately inaccurate1. Depending on the [...]
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William Grosso @ July 5, 2008
Recently, I ran across Richard Monson-Haefel’s statement that he admires James Gosling.
RMH wrote:
My admiration for him is based on that fact that he invented a platform that was not only interesting and exciting but a platform that is perhaps the most successful programming platform in history. There are more Java software developers and more Java [...]
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