Jeff Wuorio’s 4 Ways Businesswomen Can Combat Bias discusses ways to fight detrimental views on female company representatives. Although it may be needed for a small company to fight these preconceptions through deception as Gini Dietrich of Arment Dietrich does, making a fictitious male entity the leader of a company that is headed by a […]
A blog entry adds more insight to Jeremy Wright’s Web 2.0 Companies Need to Scale. As an IT administrator, I worry about the availability of Internet applications that run on the servers that I maintain. Perfection is something that I strive for personally, and I continually think about robust methods that will bring the availability […]
While thinking about a programming language deficiency, I rediscovered polymorphism. Overloading a function allows a function call to behave differently when passed variables of different type. I was trying to devise a method of simulating function overloading, because PHP does not support it. I considered implementing a function with an if-else statement ladder that tests […]
A piece in Newsweek by Google’s Schmidt and Varian discusses ten guidelines to hiring and maintaining good knowledge workers. Several guidelines, such as catering to the every need of knowledge workers, are feasible only in thriving companies, but there are a couple of points in the article that are applicable to all companies and have […]
As much as the software industry overdog and the its representatives are disfavored, I do find Bill Gates very respectable. The scholarship program for law students that was formed in honor of his father is a great gift. I, as a juror, have seen young public defenders and prosecutors at work. I am fairly certain […]