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Commit To Persist: A Better Way for Product Teams to Succeed

We get commitment in product development all wrong! Commitment is a critical aspect of achieving strategic goals.

September 09, 2024 #software #product #development #strategy

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Maturing our Development Teams and Mental Health Platform with MongoDB Atlas

A talk I gave at MongoDB.Local in Toronto on how MongoDB Atlas helped me and my team mature our software engineering practices.

April 30, 2024 #software #tech #best practice #maturity #mongodb

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A Very Brief History of Computing In Sweden

Sweden isn’t a country one immediately thinks of when considering the development of computers. However, it has a rich history in the field of computing dating back to the 19th Century.

October 04, 2022 #history #computers #software #sweden

The Origins of Software: The Abstraction of Behaviour From the Machine

Software is to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th century. It is what drives our society forward and makes new opportunities possible.

August 16, 2022 #history #computers #software

4 Facts About Big Data Pioneer Herman Hollerith

One of the first, or most prominent people, to work on a Big Data problem was Herman Hollerith. In the 1880s the US Census Bureau was struggling to process census data in a timely fashion.

June 06, 2022 #history #computers #software #ibm #hollerith

The Failure of Charles Babbage and the Good Enough Principle

There are two important questions to ask about Charles Babbage, why did he fail to build his mechanical computers? And what can his failures teach computer scientists and businesses today?

May 23, 2022 #history #computers #software #babbage #good enough

The Incredible Struggle of Software Pioneer Kateryna Yushchenko

Kateryna Yushchenko studied Mathematics and in the 1950s became involved in the MESM project, the Soviet Union’s first computer.

April 08, 2022 #history #computers #software #ukraine #yushchenko

Ukraine’s Incredible Contributions to Computer Science

One of the great tragedies of any conflict is the damage it does to cultural and historical assets.

March 15, 2022 #history #computers #software #ukraine

Charles Babbage the Entertainer and Socialite

It is well documented Charles Babbage was a difficult, belligerent and often quarrelsome man.

February 16, 2022 #history #computers #software #babbage

Turing, the Halting Problem and the Dawn of the Digital Age

The period between 1930 and 1960 can be regarded as a dividing line in history. A 30 year period which turned more than 2,000 years of human history on its head.

February 02, 2022 #history #computers #software #turing

The Death of Charles Babbage, a Sad Tale of Labour Misspent

Charles Babbage wasn’t remembered as fondly at the time of his death as he is today.

January 18, 2022 #history #computers #software #babbage

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