Copyright 2012 Michael Knopf's BlogIn this frank and interesting discussion about the future of automobiles and the role they will play in the Green (environmental conservation) Movement as well as resolving the ever growing problem of traffic gridlock, Bill Ford discusses his vision of communication and networking between every vehicle on the road. Literally your car talking to mine, telling it things about traffic and road conditions. This vision will be accomplished through software, running on every car on the road, and the world will look to programmers like us to develop that software. The future of your programming career could quite literally be in your car.http://www.mknopf.com/articles/automobiles-a-new-landscape-for-programmers.htmlMon, 20 Jun 2011 14:48:10 GMT2011-06-20T14:48:10Life is a complex thing, we all are busy doing "stuff" that makes us happy, sad, exhausted, and everything in between. Most of us want "more out of life", Ron Gutman explains how achieving this is just a smile away.http://www.mknopf.com/articles/getting-more-out-of-life-just-smile.htmlWed, 11 May 2011 17:05:12 GMT2011-05-11T17:05:12Have you ever been at the gym, running on a treadmill, while the guy next to you (who is in much better shape I might add) is not only running faster than you but appears to be doing it with ease. You adjust your speed trying keep up, it works for awhile and you feel good about it, but eventually fatigue sets in and you find it increasingly more difficult to stay on pace. Eventually you have to slow down to something thats "sustainable", something you can keep up for your entire workout. Learning (and working) can, and often is, just like this.http://www.mknopf.com/articles/learning-fatigue-sustainable-pace-and-a-programmers-death-march.htmlSat, 23 May 2009 16:28:39 GMT2009-05-23T16:28:39At some time in your career you will need to interview for a job, if you own your own consulting firm then you are most likely interviewing for jobs on a weekly basis (by pitching clients to contract you for work). Preparing for technical job interviews requires a great deal of research, work, and most of all patience. This article provides a list of questions and answers that I fielded while interviewing for senior level software development positions, it is a collection of my experiences during 17 different job interviews with 10 companies including NASA (who offered me a job)...http://www.mknopf.com/articles/preparing-for-technical-job-interviews.htmlFri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT2009-03-27T00:00:00http://www.mknopf.com/topics/career-management.htmlThu, 04 Feb 2010 11:04:47 GMTen-us