Silicon Valley Musings

Dr. David Green’s On-Cue Compliance Service has been nominated by
Accenture for the GSM Association’s “Mobile in the Community - Best
Use of Mobile - Special Needs” award. Winners will be announced on
February 24th in Cannes during the GSM Association’s annual conference.
Details can be found here.

During Rajendra’s presentation today he mentioned that he would need both English and Telugu language support. I think most dot matrix displays and printers usually only support Latin character sets. I would confirm with specific hardware vendors to determine if this is the case.
Windows XP natively supports Telugu. I noticed there is an […]

Any software project worth its salt has a project name, mine is called Project Umunhum*. The project status and documents can be found at http://umunhum.org
* Umunhum is the Ohlone word for Hummingbird. It is also the name of the mountain between the Silicon Valley and the Pacific.

Read Investor Business Daily’s article entitled Yahoo’s Betting The Remittance Business Will Pay here.

I think it’s safe to say that all production software is “ugly.” It must evolve in response to aggressive delivery dates and ever changing feature requirements.
I am also sure all software would benefit from a redesign and second implementation. During my career with Reuters I was involved with several such efforts. I have some […]