{"id":1974,"date":"2008-05-07T01:01:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T05:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2022-03-01T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:28:29","slug":"will-distribute-business-objects-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/will-distribute-business-objects-for-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Will distribute business objects for food"},"content":{"rendered":"I used the subject line of this blog entry as my signature <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.xml.org\/archives\/xml-dev\/199711\/msg00174.html\">11 years ago<\/a> when I saw the writing on the wall at Nortel, and wanted to announce my interest in looking elsewhere for a job.  Ok, perhaps it wasn&#8217;t the optimal way to communicate that information to the world, but it was <em>cute<\/em>, damnit.\n\nSkip ahead to current day, and I find myself ex-co-founder of a mobile startup which wasn&#8217;t able to raise the money it needed, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coactus.com\">consultant<\/a> who, frankly, got bored answering all the REST 101 questions that came my way.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love that the Web and REST are finally getting their due, and I was honoured to have folks from all over the world come to me to answer their questions, but unfortunately those questions were rarely a challenge. What I want &#8211; nay, what I <em>need<\/em> &#8211; is to work on product or projects for a while where I have the opportunity to be creative once again, have a look at the best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxgadgets.com\/2020\/11\/small-business-tools.html\">small business tools<\/a>.\n\nIf you&#8217;re reading this, you probably know what I&#8217;m good it and what I like.  For the record, that&#8217;s the Web, mobile, open source, and projects\/products for the public good.  If you know of any opportunities that fall somewhere in that space, please <a href=\"mailto:distobj@acm.org\">drop me a line<\/a>.  Thanks.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I used the subject line of this blog entry as my signature 11 years ago when I saw the writing on the wall at Nortel, and wanted to announce my interest in looking elsewhere for a job. Ok, perhaps it wasn&#8217;t the optimal way to communicate that information to the world, but it was cute, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}