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| < < | That experience taught me a lot about what really matters in programming. It is not about solving puzzles and being the brightest kid in the class. It is about realizing that the complexity of software dwarfs even the most brilliant human; that cleverness cannot win. The only weapons we have are simplicity and convention. - Jonathan Edwards (more CuteQuotes) | |||||||
| > > | Complexity kills. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT. Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use. Complexity introduces security challenges. Complexity causes administrator frustration. - Ray Ozzie (more CuteQuotes) | |||||||
| It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity surfing." TobyVanitySurf | ||||||||
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| At work I'm a software architect and developer specializing in the design and development of large-scale systems written in Ruby and Java (they work great together!), although I've also built ASP/VBScript systems, and done lots of work in C. | ||||||||
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| < < | I work for the MITRE Corporation on healthcare-related systems, mostly open source. | |||||||
| > > | I work for The MITRE Corporation on healthcare-related systems, mostly open source, for example: http://projectpophealth.org/. | |||||||
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| < < | I most recently worked for Sermo in Kendall Square, helping build and run their web site. | |||||||
| > > | I most recently worked for Sermo in Kendall Square, helping build and run their web site. Sermo was a crazy place; a small capsule of late-90's dot-com irrational exuberance transported ten years into the future. It was fun while it lasted... | |||||||
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| < < | Before that I worked for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure. | |||||||
| > > | Before that I worked for Reva Systems, a startup building RFID infrastructure. Great idea, great people, great product, plenty of funds. It's a damn shame it didn't work out. | |||||||
| Before that I bounced around for a while, doing software architecture and development consulting. | ||||||||