The moments when excitement builds throughout the whole team at the delight of discovery and creativity are precious. These moments feel like play rather than work and they breed openness and courage. So what conditions must exist for these moments to happen? Here’s some ideas...

Congratulations, Adobe, on your impending move from selling Photoshop and other boring old standalone applications that people only had to pay for once to a ‘Creative Cloud’ subscription service that will charge users by the month and hold their critical data hostage against those bills. This bold move to extract more revenue from customers in exchange for new ‘services’ that they neither want nor need puts you at the forefront of strategic thinking by proprietary software companies in the 21st century!

As I said in my last post: S3 is NOT a CDN.  It is an amazing Simple Storage Service, not a Simple Delivery Service.  

Why there are very few good Java Architects? Well, most people will say to me, that this isn’t true, they have Java Architects in their team. I believe, but most of them are Senior Programming Developers with some experience, but not real Architects! Sorry.