Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips We review some fundamental concepts of programming and building things using any other technique. Now and then in conversations with well-learned and well-accomplished persons, I find that they lack in some of the basics I had the privilege to learn many years ago. It seems that we either forget these or never […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A few thoughts on an item that has been forgotten in the workplace and society in general, the Memorandum for the Record.   Question: Can you believe what just happened? We should tell somebody. Somebody needs to know this. What do we do?  Answer: Write a Memorandum for the Record or MFR.  Follow-up […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We reinvent the past and give it a new name. IBM is pushing into the cloud computing business. They are “behind” the competition, but have hopes of making ground and money with “hybrid” technologies. Let’s consider this idea of hybrid cloud. I trust the cloud provider to keep my stuff reliably and […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Some of us have been here before. “AI” is hot again. Perhaps this time the future will be different from the past, but I doubt it. I worked extensively in AI in the 1980s. What I see today is remarkably similar. This is due to what I believe is a gross misunderstanding […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The clipboard and the pencil are perhaps the simplest yet effective tools for doing something important: recording history. And if we don’t have our history, we will repeat work and waste resources. I was in high school—a long time ago in a place far, far away. It was the train station (no […]

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