DeWitt Clinton

So, yesterday was my last day with everyone at Site59/Sabre/Travelocity. I should have brought my camera in a few more times because I missed out getting pictures of a lot of people. However, we went out for lunch and a few of us met up for drinks at the end of the day. [...]

There has been no shortage of media coverage regarding the trend of offshoring software development efforts to India, China, etc. However, most of those articles tend to be written from a political or economic viewpoint, and few really touch on the day-to-day reality of the business and technical implications of offshoring. Over the past [...]

After two years as a senior architect and senior principle in software development at Travelocity, Friday is my last day with the company. I joined Travelocity when the travel industry giant acquired the New York-based (and wonderful) startup Site59, where I had been the director of software development and hard at work building interesting [...]

After seeing someone cleverly leaving messages for me in the access logs via the search form, I added writeback and trackback support via Rael Dornfest’s plug-in. Once again, Blosxom impressed me — enabling, and customizing, this plug-in took only a couple of minutes.

I recently made two cds filled with tracks that will remind me of the past year. Some of the songs are new, most of them are old, but all of them ended up with some of the highest playcounts on my iPod. And iTunes playlists just make it so absurdly easy to burn mix [...]