Having been extensively involved with computer systems and applications I’ve worked with all sorts of PCs, starting with the Apple II, II+, Franklin Ace 1000 (anyone remember that Apple clone?), Osborne (who?), on to the original IBM PC in 1981 (which only came with two floppy disk drives of 360K each), the XT (with a humongous hard drive of 10 mega, yes, megabytes), the new "portable" Compaq, the IBM AT, the PS/2, the 8088 chip, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium + MMX, Pentium II, Pentium III, ad infinitum.

Operating systems from DOS, DR-DOS, IBM DOS, MS-DOS, in versions from 1.0 to 7 (?), finally getting to the graphical user interface of Windows (which waged a triumphant battle over IBM's TopView, Quarterdeck's DesqView, IBM's OS/2, and others) in its various flavors.  And of course we've now got the ubiquitous Internet and the Web.

Along with my experience in application development, database design, and networking, more recently I -- like many of my cohorts -- have also absorbed the likes of HTML, dynamic HTML, style sheets, Javascript, VBScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), XML, SSL, AJAX, etc., etc.

Although there is still much more to software development than the web, HTML, Javascript, AJAX, etc (see Can anyone develop a web site?), we have surely been moving our clients in the direction of web application development. After all, the web offers much of what we have been dreaming about for decades.

A few of my articles: (Click to view in Adobe Acrobat format)
* "Does More Data Equal More Information?" -- information overload (Wall Street Computer Review)
* "The Job-Interview Game" -- job-hunting exploits (The New York Times)
* "'Below Scale' is B.S." -- Corporate salary scales (New Engineer)

...and some books:

Want a Job? Get Some Experience. Want Experience? Get a Job! American Management Association	Using Symphony Que Corporation	Managing Your Hard Disk Que Corporation

* Data/Computer Security chapter in Handbook of Investment Technology, Irwin Professional Publishing