Expert Texture

The blogged wandering of Robert W. Anderson

About

I am a software developer and architect, entrepreneur, CTO of Digipede Technologies.  Among other things, I am a member of the Gillmor Gang and the architect of the GestureBank.

I have been developing software since I was a kid and seriously since a Junior at Cal. Since then I have helped build a couple of companies as the software architect / technology lead. While my primary responsibility is generally planning, designing, and building product I have also been responsible for or directly involved in most every aspect of the business. I’ve been on company boards, managed human resources, hired and fired, performed technical selling and evangelism, worked through various due-diligence processes, sold a company, etc.. Aside from developing software, one of my favorite things to do is to discuss business approaches and opportunities with fellow entrepreneurs.

This blog tracks my thoughts on software, process, tools, technologies. I am particularly interested in issues of extending identity into the social space, affinity, user contracts, and underpinning it all, scalability. I disclaim.

In terms of development technologies, I’ve spent most of my professional career working with Microsoft tools and technologies.  I have worked with C++, VB, MFC, COM/DCOM, ATL, data access technologies from ODBC to ADO.NET, Java, MSMQ, SQL Server, C#, ASP.NET, FreeBSD, Sun/OS, and more.  For a number of years now I have also been working with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, generally on Linux distributions.

Feel free to contact me at [robert] [at] [cairene] [dot] [net] or use my i-name contact page.

 

P.S.: The title of this blog has little meaning, but here’s another clue (…fya…): I almost gave this blog the tag line: “OHNONOTHIMAGAIN,” said Little Nicola.