Category: The Ugly

A plea to the recruiting community: Principle vs. Principal

Christian Donner, May 29, 2007April 12, 2009

So much has been written and preached about the difference between the words ‘principal’ and…

Christian Donner, May 25, 2007October 12, 2010

I had an inground pool installed last year and would like to get opinions regarding…

Christian Donner, May 18, 2007May 3, 2008

Fernand Point, by some considered the “father of modern French cuisine”, writes in his book…

Christian Donner, May 4, 2007May 3, 2008

The outsourcing and offshoring trends of the early 2000’s were an indication that executives increasingly…

Christian Donner, April 25, 2007March 22, 2008

Yesterday I got the basic Verizon Fiber Optic Service (FIOS) installed at my house. The…

Christian Donner, January 19, 2007May 3, 2008

I have been using outgoing VPN connections through my PIX firewall for years – using…

Christian Donner, November 16, 2006October 17, 2009

The presentation slides from the 30th Internationalization and Unicode Conference are available right here. The…

Christian Donner, November 7, 2006March 22, 2008

The boom of the 90’s attracted many moderately talented gold diggers to becoming software engineers….

Christian Donner, October 24, 2006March 22, 2008

When J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) became a mainstream standard about five or six years…

Christian Donner, September 29, 2006September 29, 2006

Only a few years ago, many commentators lamented about the flood of Indian software engineers…