Over 15 years experience with Microsoft technologies and specialization in integration using BizTalk server. Broad range of industries and sizes of implemented systems with excellent verbal as well as written communication skills.
The article references a paper from 1980 called "On Understanding Laws, Evolution, and Conservation in the Large-Program Life Cycle". I just skimmed it - incredible insights that continue to be relevant.
This is great! I think it would be useful to provide more details about this. Perhaps include a 360 degree view (rotate); a view of the administrator's interface; sample report/audit report; details about connectivity.
Just a day on the job as far as they were concerned. As with many things you might do, you only realize what you were doing was important (often) long after the fact.
I try to keep it simple - use the rss feed with something like newsblur and click stories I find interesting. So you can skip the big company stories and focus on what you prefer.
Plus, who knows, by reviewing all of the headlines you just might find a gem of a story.
I think a better experience is possible with a start button over a static background to provide the viewer with an idea about what they're about to get into.
Your story is really nice and your motivation is well stated in your blog post: "...the fragmented condition and outdated technologies of the commercial real estate industry continued to frustrate me.....I decided to find a better solution"
I feel your story stands out with that one sentence - it would have been better to lead with that. I also feel the emphasis on your age and role as a single parent takes away from your central motivation when you lead with those points.
..."in a non-Enterprise environment" - yes...well..expanding into an enterprise; using BizTalk server (Microsoft).
I design and create SOA solutions through services exposed by/through BizTalk and build an ESB solution to orchestrate the services which acts as a substrate for 'composable' applications (again, using BizTalk and apps that use the services are web-based, or whatever client apps the organization wants to use; many apps are integrations between systems like line of business using various approaches that include EDI, etc).