Engaging a team of software developers requires expertise, patience, and communication between the development team and team that owns and understands needs of the business. There are times that business can operate well with commercial software applications. Some businesses buy multiple tools. At some moment, the leaders within a company acknowledge that their internal or external business workflows are inefficient, or inaccurate, or incompatible with their other technology. Is there something ...
Mar 03, 2023•41 min•Season 2023Ep. 7
Construction contractors and many other trades love to see scope changes and project expansion. Project expansion and scope changes increase revenue and often increase the size of a team. Sometimes the need for more done at a faster rate comes introduces risk to a project. Using modern software development techniques whereby the team work in 2-4 week sprints, we often see issues long before we must deal with them. How does one solve problems that remain at the horizon? I argue that a mature team...
Feb 17, 2023•43 min•Season 2023Ep. 6
When we start a new software project we “swing with a big hammer”, standing up structures and framework quickly. What we build resembled the both the native Oracle APEX environment plus the client’s colors, logos, and fonts. Through this initial framework, we, the development team, offered a vision. From here a shared vision developed through shared work. We also needed to accommodate the multiple languages of French, Dutch, and the English that the developers depended on. We need to comply with...
Feb 03, 2023•34 min•Season 2023Ep. 5
The first time I heard the phrase middleware, I was writing software for FedEx with a terrific team of Oracle developers in the late 1990s. I had to ask for a definition. In short, middleware is software that run between two things. Middleware is software that is invisible to the user. Middleware is software but seems to fall outside the accepted definitions of an application or app. It is software’s own software-based infrastructure. Does that make any sense? Probably not. I wrote my first line...
Jan 20, 2023•34 min•Season 2023Ep. 4
I have started so many projects in my life and career. More often, I remember the end of a project. The end of a project means friends disappear. Comfortable familiarity and expertise fades. Sometimes with massive and exhaustive projects, I get sick for a while. When it goes well, I feel snuggly connected to those around me. Leaving Iraq after a year, left me drained, and I failed to keep in tough with others from those days. They also did not keep in touch with me either. That happens after pro...
Jan 06, 2023•36 min•Season 2023Ep. 3
During the last half-century, we revise the terminology related to the early days of a software design process. Hopefully, when we ignore dogma, the goals are the same. We, the developers, must create tools for clients that work to improve process. Pragmatically, the process is a bit messier than the ideal suggests it should be. Step 2 then Step 4, then maybe circle back to Step 1 or 3. That’s life isn’t it? Instead of getting client requirements in December as a means of starting the project, I...
Dec 23, 2022•41 min•Season 2023Ep. 2
My colleague Stephanie, or Stevie, and I have working together for over six years. We’ve written commercial software that has managed billions in U.S. federal government funds. We’ve written software that helps an airline inspect their ramp operations. In the past, I worked on a team that use software to catch bad guys. The Electrotest project started in December of 2021. The audience for this podcast includes business folks who must manage data, manage software, or manage software development. ...
Dec 09, 2022•31 min•Season 2023Ep. 1
Echoes of a Lincoln Song Listeners I am putting out this story for your enjoyment and dedicating it to two friends: Lynda Copeland and Ginny Lemire. I wrote this piece upon request of my mother in 2003, before I moved back to my native New England and before spent a year in Iraq (2005/2006). It is written about the Town of Lincoln MA, the town of my youth. Lincoln sits between Lexington and Concord, famous for the battled of the 19th of April 1775. The bloodiest fighting of that day’s battle and...
Feb 03, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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Jan 27, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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Jan 20, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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Jan 13, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Ever think about the seconds immediately after buying something online? You get an email. You may have been added to a mailing list. In the seconds buying our product, there are 14 steps, 4 vendors, and thousands of lines of instructions. All invisible, all immediate. When it works, money flows into a bank account. When it goes badly, sweat drips, anxiety soars, and bosses pace. Follow the haps and mishaps of a software development team starting a new venture with a new product on the Soul of an...
Dec 16, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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Dec 09, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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Dec 02, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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Nov 25, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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Nov 18, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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Nov 11, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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Nov 04, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Exploring The Cloud and its context to business forms Chapter 2 of our story. Show notes are at https://ChristinaMoore.us/the-soul-of-an-internet-machine/
Oct 28, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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Oct 21, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 1
My name is Christina Moore. I am a tool-smith. For over thirty years, I design and build the tools of the modern economy. My craft and the practice of it evolved from an older time with people working over flames, and forges, and whacking things with hammers. I design, build, host, and support software. Software is the most ubiquitous tool of our economy and likely the least visible. You may be listening to my podcast on a computer weighing 200 grams – your mobile phone. In the recent six decade...
Oct 14, 2020•3 min
