Maybe Marc Benioff still Really Believes, but someone at salesforce.com knows how their stuff really works, perhaps rediscovering what other large software tools companies have learned, sometimes over and over. To paraphrase Zig Ziglar’s ‘…Nothing happens until someone signs a check…’, sooner or later someone has to cut code.
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Maintaining a home is a continuing, and seemingly never ending, learning experience. Many of the lessons learned can be profitably exploited by applying them to software design.
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Everything useful has plenty of competition, making purely objective choices difficult. A small thing can have a disproportionate effect on a decision. Here are two examples of a tipping point around a small thing, one that resulted in a replacement and the other in a new acquisition. (more…)

Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex, by Darren Richardson with Paul Milbourne, by Apress (Springer), also available at Amazon. ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-1918-7.

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Barney Madoff got it wrong. If you want to steal from literally millions with no way of getting caught, use an offshore haven protected by high tech communications to hide the peas.

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