by Dwayne Phillips A little-publicized factor in the computing world is that to understand something, you have to find someone, i.e., a warm body. Back in the dark ages of computing, I wrote software in a language called FORTRAN. We used FORTRAN code that had been written the pre-dark ages by a group of people […]
Warmware
July 23rd, 2015 · No Comments
Tags: Communication · Engineering · People · Programming
Systems Engineering and System Administration
April 23rd, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips As a job seeker, I often run into inexplicable confusion between these two job titles. I am a systems engineer. I do systems engineering. I am not a systems administrator. I do not do systems administration. A quick read of the two Wikipedia articles linked above shows that the two professions are […]
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Engineering(?)
March 26th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips It seems the world has redefined what it means to be an engineer. A recent story on the web discussed how Twitter will change the appearance of its home page. Involved in the story is Twitter’s Vice President of Engineering. I am an engineer; I have been an engineer for several decades. […]
Tags: Engineering