May 6th, 2005
by Tim Cull
The other day I was walking from my office to Lindsey’s office and I saw out of the corner of my eye a teenager putting one of those pre-written graffiti stickers on the side of a bus. This was at a busy intersection at 5pm on a weekday and nobody (including me) said anything. I wish I had. At the time, I was in a hurry and anyway taken by surprise by what he did and wasn’t thinking fast enough. But the light took long enough to turn green that I had time to mull it over and still failed to say anything.
What would I have said? I’m not sure, but even winging it would have been better. Anyway, I was morally obligated to. It made me feel in some small way like a failure.
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May 6th, 2005
by Tim Cull
So we’re having an “IT Forum” at work where 50 senior players in IT are going to meet for a few days and talk about strategic technology ideas. It should be lots of fun and we’re even going to have Martin Fowler come speak.
The organizers floated around to the attendees (including me) a request to write up a technology that they thought would be new and beneficial for us.
I wrote up grid computing. I’ve never done anything with grid computing before, but it seemed like a good area for an scientifically minded financial company to get into, and at the very least should make us make better use of our spare CPU cycles.
And they liked my write up the best and asked me to present it! This is a whole different ballgame and I’m a little excited and nervous. Most likely, nothing will come of the presentation, but I will be giving it in front of 50 of my collegues and all the senior management. Guess I better quickly learn much more about grid computing.
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May 6th, 2005
by Tim Cull
I’ve had a slow couple of weeks at work (slow for me, at least, meaning not having literally back-to-back meetings all day), which has given me a chance to actually do some technology work instead of the usual managerial firefighting, case pleading, and neck wringing. Even though all it’s been is evaluating a couple of unit testing frameworks (DBUnit and SQLUnit) and surfing the web reading about grid computing, it’s still been energizing. It reminds me how much I love coding and creating things.
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