To The Point

Throughout my career I’ve been fortunate enough to have great managers (and not so great ones) from which I’ve, equally, learned something: from the great ones what true leadership means and what it takes to be a good leader; from the not so great ones I’ve learned what mistakes to avoid.

So often the user experience is ignored or its importance is marginalized. A bad user experience is no different than a bad customer experience; a bad experience means that person is not likely to return or recommend your product or service.

Your modern web browser is fabulous for consuming data: text, audio, and video; all natively. However, for the web’s promise of real-time audio/video communication with others, you will need a browser plugin (e.g. Flash) or a different application altogether (e.g. Skype).

As the world evolves every day, so does technology. What was considered new yesterday will essentially be old news today. Not surprisingly, adapting to changing technology can be challenging, however staying on top of it can reap tremendous benefits.

For a number of years the software development industry has struggled to find a solution to a rather old idea: write once, run everywhere. First, there was Java, which for a little while seemed to be the answer, however for numerous reasons it didn’t live up to the dream.