I have one week left. One week of ten (10) weeks of continuous time off work. That more than doubles my career-record of 4 weeks off from sometime back in the late 1990s. Usually I never take more than 2 weeks.
February 1st was my 10 year anniversary of being employed at Microsoft. Some day in March, I got an email from HR that I was granted a “service award” and was entitled to 8...
Hello World. Let’s blog like it’s 2002.
I’ve had a blog on Dave Winer’s “Radio Userland” in 2002. Back then, blogs were a novel way for self-publishing and for putting ad-hoc thoughts on the web without having to edit every page; before Twitter, before Facebook, before Instagram. It doesn’t feel like this all nearly 15 years ago.
I liked blogging so much that I soon thought to have hit the limits of Dave’s platform...
2 trillion (Gartner), 4 trillion (ARC), 7 trillion (IDC, PwC), 14 trillion (Cisco), 19 trillion (SoftTech). U.S. Dollars. Cumulative value-add by “IoT”. by 2020. or 2022. or 2025. or over the next 20 years. Shiny CFO and potential investor eyes. Because dough.
There is quite the gap between 2 trillion and 14 trillion U.S. dollars. There’s also quite the gap between 2020 and 2034. The figures that are being thrown around raise a grand red...
Last week, IBM's Peter Niblett posted a response to my MQTT analysis and says that he is keen on a positive discussion on my observations as a contribution to the future development of MQTT by the OASIS Technical Committee that is working on MQTT. Thank you, Mr. Niblett.
That said, a friend who works as a messaging product architect at another major platform vendor chatted me on Facebook after reading the IBM...
Tim Kellogg from 2lemetry felt compelled to write a response to the MQTT analysis I posted Monday. Debate is good.
I believe there is a difference, however, between being directly and openly critical of the product of an public standards body that gets broadly advertised as the “de-facto” standard by the specification’s main sponsor and individual name calling.
Tim chose to describe me as “a man who prefers flame wars over...