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 @ May 30, 2008
I recently attended Google IO1. While I was there, I ran into some friends. One of whom asked me:
Hey Bill. You know how to network and attend conferences and stuff. What should I be doing here?
Once I got past the momentary confusion (I’m not particularly good at networking and I’m not sure anyone should [...]
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William Grosso @ February 24, 2007
Chris Yeh has now posted his second defense of economic inequality. In many ways, his defenses of economic inequality remind me of the Randians out there, most of whom reason well on a micro-level and all of whom are incapable of rethinking their basic assumptions.
(update: this wasn’t fair to Chris. I wasn’t meaning to call [...]
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William Grosso @ January 12, 2007
For those who weren’t paying attention, or those who were just paying attention to this blog, the story goes something like:
Last March, I left Echopass.
For the next six months, I stayed at home, playing with my newly born son Andrew (well, I also did some consulting; I’m fond of being cash-flow positive).
In late October, I [...]
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William Grosso @ September 4, 2006
I ran across a summary of a report by Evans Data Corporation today. It’s from December 1, 2005 and it’s very surprising. To wit:
The survey found that Client/Server application development has surged 30% in the last six months and is the most developed type of software after a three year decline.
The survey also found that [...]
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William Grosso @ June 17, 2006
Every now and then, I wind up talking in front of a room full of people. It's an occupational hazard– what with running SDForum's Emerging Technology SIG and with being a VP of Engineering at startups, people sometimes think I might have something worth saying. And since I'm such a gracious and genial person, I [...]
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William Grosso @ June 15, 2006
Krugle went live yesterday. It's a search engine "for code and technical content."
That is to say, vertical search focused at the software developer market. Very interesting to me because I often want such a thing. When you're hacking together a prototype, you often "google for code." Having a tool that's explicitly designed for this purpose [...]
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William Grosso @ May 9, 2006
A little over four years ago, I wrote a series of articles deriving and describing a new datastructure (and associated algorithm) which I called a Hashbelt. Hashbelts have many nice properties. For one thing, they're easy to implement in almost any modern language. For another, they've also got some performance characteristics which make them close [...]
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William Grosso @ April 26, 2006
Rajesh Setty gave a great talk last week at SDForum's Software Engineering Management SIG.
In it, he talked about the importance of long-term thinking in career development. More specifically, about how to develop a "personal brand"
Good stuff, and stuff that resonated deeply with me; it's something that's on my mind a lot these days (and wasn't [...]
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