Engaging a team of software developers requires expertise, patience, and communication between the development team and team that owns and understands needs of the business. There are times that business can operate well with commercial software applications. Some businesses buy multiple tools. At some moment, the leaders within a company acknowled…

Construction contractors and many other trades love to see scope changes and project expansion. Project expansion and scope changes increase revenue and often increase the size of a team. Sometimes the need for more done at a faster rate comes introduces risk to a project. Using modern software development techniques whereby the team work in 2-4 we…

When we start a new software project we “swing with a big hammer”, standing up structures and framework quickly. What we build resembled the both the native Oracle APEX environment plus the client’s colors, logos, and fonts. Through this initial framework, we, the development team, offered a vision. From here a shared vision developed through share…

The first time I heard the phrase middleware, I was writing software for FedEx with a terrific team of Oracle developers in the late 1990s. I had to ask for a definition. In short, middleware is software that run between two things. Middleware is software that is invisible to the user. Middleware is software but seems to fall outside the accepted d…

I have started so many projects in my life and career. More often, I remember the end of a project. The end of a project means friends disappear. Comfortable familiarity and expertise fades. Sometimes with massive and exhaustive projects, I get sick for a while. When it goes well, I feel snuggly connected to those around me. Leaving Iraq after a ye…

During the last half-century, we revise the terminology related to the early days of a software design process. Hopefully, when we ignore dogma, the goals are the same. We, the developers, must create tools for clients that work to improve process. Pragmatically, the process is a bit messier than the ideal suggests it should be. Step 2 then Step 4,…

My colleague Stephanie, or Stevie, and I have working together for over six years. We’ve written commercial software that has managed billions in U.S. federal government funds. We’ve written software that helps an airline inspect their ramp operations. In the past, I worked on a team that use software to catch bad guys. The Electrotest project star…

Echoes of a Lincoln Song Listeners I am putting out this story for your enjoyment and dedicating it to two friends: Lynda Copeland and Ginny Lemire. I wrote this piece upon request of my mother in 2003, before I moved back to my native New England and before spent a year in Iraq (2005/2006). It is written about the Town of Lincoln MA, the town of m…

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Ever think about the seconds immediately after buying something online? You get an email. You may have been added to a mailing list. In the seconds buying our product, there are 14 steps, 4 vendors, and thousands of lines of instructions. All invisible, all immediate. When it works, money flows into a bank account. When it goes badly, sweat drips, …

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Exploring The Cloud and its context to business forms Chapter 2 of our story. Show notes are at https://ChristinaMoore.us/the-soul-of-an-internet-machine/By Christina Mcdonald Moore

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My name is Christina Moore. I am a tool-smith. For over thirty years, I design and build the tools of the modern economy. My craft and the practice of it evolved from an older time with people working over flames, and forges, and whacking things with hammers. I design, build, host, and support software. Software is the most ubiquitous tool of our e…