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Embrace The Non-Geek

My first job as a professional software developer was in 1979 with a small (8 people!) consulting company in upstate NJ. They actually had two locations, a storefront “lab” that housed all our development equipment and an office that was a converted church. My office had a stained glass window!
This company did some telecommunications consulting [...]


“It should be intuitively obvious…” NOT!

I sat in a meeting at AT&T in Middletown NJ in the mid-80’s and heard one of my colleagues argue against spending  additional time on a manual for a tool he created for the user community. I was suggesting that he provide an introduction on the purpose of the tool and the scenarios where it could be [...]