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Back at the end of April I made the decision to get away from the software industry for a bit to invest in myself. Mind, body, and soul. I know how very Californian of me!
The past 6 months have been wonderful. I just finished up traveling throughout Europe for a few months. Logged a ton [...]

About two weeks ago the announcement of our acquisition was made public. Even though this is great for us as a company, it is unfortunately a deal breaker for me. I have been contemplating a change of venue for a while now due to the 40 mile commute to Palo Alto each day. [...]

It’s amazing how quickly 5 years can go by. Today was my last day working for Virage, Inc., and I have to say it was a pretty decent experience. A lot has happened over that period of time; went though our IPO, struck by the down turn of the market and had to [...]

It’s bad either way you look at it!
Here are some questions I have been asking myself over and over again in the past couple of weeks:

Why do so many engineers refuse to write up bug reports?
How can an engineer develop software with out actually understanding the system?
How can someone be okay with a [...]

Well I’m in the process of writing Struts actions, which to me is a pretty boring part of development. We have a UI developer on our team, which is a big plus, but I still have to make sure the data she needs is in the resulting XML. It’s so tedious…
At least I [...]