Archive for December, 2006

Year End - Goodbye 2006

December 29, 2006

How did it get to be the end of 2006 so fast? I’m sure there is a relevant theory that says that your sense of time is directly related to your age. Given that no-one is getting younger, I’m sure everyone understands. It must be some kind of hope that time will [...]

Files, Folders, and Folly

December 22, 2006

The concept of files has been around for quite some time. I just tried to find out how old the idea was but did not find a date. Instead, I found a very exciting entry at Wikipedia about file folders. If you feel you need to know more about how many different [...]

Brad Pedersen (Citrix Chief Architect) Interview with Brian Madden

December 18, 2006

There is someone else within Citrix that probably loves Citrix history as much as I do. His name is Brad Pedersen and he has the rare right to say that he has been there since the beginning of Citrix in 1989. I have written about him before in previous history posts. He [...]

Writing the Impossible Code

December 15, 2006

I’ve been writing code since high school in 1981. During that time I have seen a number of progressions in both computer hardware and programming languages. I’m sure some of you would be familiar with BASIC (not the Visual kind) and perhaps even older languages like FORTRAN and COBOL. Personally, I hated [...]

Citrix Shirts

December 6, 2006

It is a right of Citrix employees to collect Citrix shirts. In the beginning, it is interesting. Then, it starts to become a bit much. I suppose that most technology companies see shirts as an easy way to spread their message. It’s kind of like wearing a portable banner around.
The shirts [...]

Monkey Ceremony

December 6, 2006

Every company has its own unique culture. As the years progress, some of the rituals grow large but the meaning is often lost. This is not much different from any other cultural exchange that exists in the broader scope of human understanding.
Citrix has perhaps one of the more unique rituals involving shipping new [...]