The pillars of a sustainable energy future - A fireside chat
2023-03-12 Management Personal Software-Craftmanship Climate Environment Innovation Politics Thoughts ChatGPT
This blog post is interesting in more than one way, because … I am going to discuss a topic that is deer to my heart: What do we need to do to ... Read More
Emacs Pair Programming - Innovation-Week Q2/2022
2022-05-01 Software-Craftmanship Community Culture Emacs Innovation Lisp Nerdy Remote Tips & Tricks
We (at Community) just had another Innovation-Week. I was actually working on generating pact-files from frontend code and then generating openapi ... Read More
Gilt CIO talks ... about innovation
2013-09-24 Management Innovation
From an interview with Steve. Too good not to turn it into a blog post ... "When people talk about innovation they are often talking about the ... Read More
Dublin Innovation Festival - Talking about Innovation, Gilt and Ireland ... and Evolution and Darwinism
2011-11-24 Management Innovation Culture
A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to talk about three things I care about: Innovation, Gilt and Ireland. The occasion was the Dublin Chamber of ... Read More
Adventure 2.0 - Building the Gilt Software Development Center in Dublin
2011-04-19 Personal Culture Innovation
A couple of weeks ago I got a call from the Gilt Groupe in NYC and they asked, if I would be interested in joining Gilt Groupe to build a software ... Read More
Greek Vacation - Food for thought
2010-02-17 Personal Culture Innovation
It is happening again :). I am in Greece ... on vacation. My wife has this unbelievable ability to find wonderful places for us to explore and ... Read More
Mass-customization delivered - Back to the roots ...
2009-12-15 Personal Innovation Mass-Customization
20 years ago I started my career as a Technical Project Manager/Lead Architect for EDS and was working on Bill-of-Material solutions for the ... Read More
FUSEforge Lightsaber/Lightsabre - Research on Asynchronous Distributed OSGi (for Jedi's :))
2009-06-09 Software-Engineering OSGi SOA Innovation
The Distributed OSGi spec (RFC 119) is coming along nicely, means now might be a good time to raise the head and start to think about what might come ... Read More
Skills, Innovation and the future of Ireland - Bermuda Triangle or Trinity
2009-06-07 Management Personal Culture Innovation
Ireland (like any other country in the world right now) needs to reinvent itself. The Celtic Tiger (1.0) is over. Question is: What's next? Do we want ... Read More
Open Source Innovation - Fact or Fiction
2008-08-25 Software-Engineering Open-Source Innovation
Is Open Source Innovation an oxymoron? Is Open-source fostering innovation or killing it? There are two school of thoughts out there: First, there are ... Read More