William Grosso @ December 26, 2008
I’m spending most of today preparing for my upcoming Java SIG talk (Jan 6, Cubberley Community Center in Mountain View). The abstract for the talk is:
The rise of next-generation languages that run on top of the JVM is probably the most interesting thing to happen in the Java universe since the combination of the Spring [...]
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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 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 @ June 3, 2008
Way back in 2004, I was running SDForum’s Emerging Technology SIG. I was also looking for a job: we’d sold Hipbone to Kana and my people-search startup idea wasn’t getting much traction with the VC’s1 So I looked around for a job and interviewed at Jotspot.
I was fascinated by the vision. Ultimately, I [...]
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William Grosso @ May 27, 2008
While I’m out recovering from jaw surgery I’ve been catching up on all the reading I meant to do.
Today, it was the Harvard Business Review, The July-August 2007, entitled “Going the Distance.” All in all, a very good issue; I highly recommend going to your local library and reading it1.
The opening essay begins as follows:
Some [...]
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