Archive for January, 2008

Moving Up and Down the Stack

January 28, 2008

This has been going on for quite some time. Companies which have traditionally specialized in certain areas are forced to examine related areas in order to grow. Once a tech company grows past a certain point (perhaps when it reaches close to the market saturation point), it needs to understand what will help [...]

Agent of Change

January 23, 2008

Sometimes I struggle to start the next blog post.  Tonight is one of those kind of times.  There are many different potential topics but it seems that not one of them is more important than the others.  Instead of fussing over this, I’ll just to coax out a topic in the first few paragraphs.
One topic [...]

Working From Home

January 20, 2008

Since 1999, I have been working from home.  This was a necessity since there is no nearby office for Citrix.  There was the option to move to Sydney but it just didn’t make sense for us.
Working from home can be a complicated.  Mostly this is true because there are no clear lines drawn between home [...]

The Pursuit of the Perfect Machine

January 17, 2008

What is perfect?  Perhaps it is impossible.  Perhaps it depends on who you ask.  Perfection is more of an idea that an achievable reality.  Why is this?  As I have probably said, perfection would equate to the end of the line.  If it was perfect for all time, there would be no need for any [...]

Recovery

January 16, 2008

My main development machine is recovering.  I had an exception in Winlogon which is always fatal.  I had tried to fix the machine but things were not looking good until today.  After many different attempts, it turned out that doing a full Windows repair was the trick to solve the trap.
I had already proven that [...]

Time Marches On

January 7, 2008

Before I knew it, a new year was here. This inspires me to write about the past year and what will unfold for this year. For whatever reason it doesn’t seem important to dive into particular details but instead look at some general trends.
Over the last couple of years Citrix has really realized [...]