Monthly Archives: April 2006

Cutting through the Web 2.0-SOA-Enterprise 2.0 Overgrowth

April 30, 2006 – 8:16 pm

Web 2.0 vs. SOA. This topic overlaps the fascinating question of what might bring about Enterprise 2.0 and, as prequel to that, what Enterprise 2.0 might be. To me, it’s clear we’re nowhere near Enterprise 2.0 and architecting systems using Service-Oriented Architecture won’t get us there, not by itself. Web 2.0 fundamentally changes the relationship […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Enterprise Software, Web 2.0 | Comments (0)

Picture a Software Developer

April 30, 2006 – 7:12 pm

What, in your mind, does a typical software developer look like? Act like?
Male? Twenty-something? Without family responsibilities? Arrives to the office after 9 am but works until late into the night, thanks to endless cokes or cups of coffee?
At a party last night I connected with a woman who had just left software development after […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Women and Men | Comments (14)

Macs: The Good, The Bad, The Inexplicable

April 23, 2006 – 9:19 am

My old eMachines desktop arrived in Denver shortly after I did. Unfortunately, I apparently hadn’t packed it well enough for the plane and truck trip, because it was clear when I booted it that the hard drive was suffering from Alzheimer’s. I took that as a sign from the gods of geekdom that I should […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Computing | Comments (10)

Drive the Boringness Out

April 21, 2006 – 5:11 pm

When I was a baby, just two or three months old, I cried. I cried and cried and cried ’til my mother wanted to shoot her head off… or maybe mine. She thinks I was bored. Al Gore hadn’t invented the Internet yet, so I couldn’t keep my neurons engaged with that, and I wasn’t […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Blogging, Parenting | Comments (10)