Job Posting at Mitel

One of our employees is going on parental leave for a year, and we need someone to take her place for a while. Often these positions turn into permanent ones, if everything works out. See the job posting on the Mitel website.

The Development Abstraction Layer

I was reading a little of Joel on Software, and I came across his posting on the Development Abstraction Layer. I’ve said for a long time that a manager’s first function is to allow his/her people to do their jobs. The best managers that I’ve had were like layers of insulation against corporate politics, ensuring [...]

Rails talk tomorrow

I’ve been prepping a talk on Ruby on Rails all week, to give at work to some managers and developers. It should be interesting considering that many of those developers are currently using JSP+struts+tomcat as their web technology solution. While it seems to work for them, just like Perl and CGI::FormMagick is currently working for [...]

Stumbled on REST at work

At work I needed to come up with a programmatic interface for a client to submit a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to the Certificate Authority (CA) on the server that I work on. Of course, like most programmers today, I’ve played with XML and SOAP ’cause they’re new and trendy. The other developer that I’m [...]

Nice deal at work

Dan York mentioned yesterday that we recently made a nice sale to MedQuist, for a decent chunk of money. It’s nice to see one of the projects that I’m on do so well. The article doesn’t mention the fact that the product runs on Linux, but now you know.

REM: Python the right tool?

At work, I suspect I’m one of the only people who actually cares about Python the programming language, beyond my coworkers who occasionally have to modify Anaconda, the RedHat/Fedora installer. Still, I checked the language out a few years ago as a clean alternative to Perl, and found that I really liked it. It wasn’t [...]

Mitel’s Teleworker solution in PCMAG

Someone pointed me to this article in PC Magazine regarding one of the products that I work on. Nice little review, but it’s too bad that they didn’t ask us before publishing information about it that is false. An administrator must enable a user for telework in OPS Manager Uh, no. OPS Manager is a [...]

New Teleworker release

Dan York pointed out the press release for one of the projects that I work on in his blog posting, the Mitel Teleworker Solution. Nice to see, so I can point my family at it and try to explain what it does.