We are a Java shop. Have been since day one. It has been a key to our success. But the future of Java is less certain than ever before. When Oracle bought Sun earlier this year it brought a new overlord to the Java universe. And it is already apparent that Oracle is going to manage Java […]
Why I Quit Programming
On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, I quit programming. Just walked away. After nineteen years, I had enough. I was done. But I am getting ahead of myself. In 1990 I had a startup software company that I loved. It was called Frontline Software Technology. Now, Frontline was, by just about every conceivable business measure, a sad little enterprise. We were very small, […]
