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Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development, Linux development, and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.

He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.

Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 13 years.


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Wednesday, April 12 2006

I've been extremely busy professionally over the past week, so I apologize for the lack of content. The quiet is also admittedly because it's hard to follow-up the domain name entries, given the extraordinary level of interest they received.

Apart from ~30,000+ visitors to those entries, per day, continuing for about a week (and still tapering off), I was also phone interviewed on National Public Radio (broadcast throughout the US), quoted in an ezine, translated to other languages, linked by several hundred other sites (including the blogs of several people in this industry who I've admired for many years), and parts of the entry is going to be published in a reputable magazine.

That interest completely shocked me.

I obtained the domain name database for purely functional reasons, and threw up the entry of observations purely because I found a couple of the stats interesting (I love digging into data and finding interesting correlations and insights. I imagine how interesting it would be to delve in some of the large datasets like grocery store databases: Who doesn't look in the cart  in line ahead of them, drawing conclusions about the personality and lifestyle of the individual based upon their purchases? Imagine all of the fun observations one could derive from the entire database of purchases).

At most I thought the regulars would find it interesting, and was shocked to see the level of traffic. Apart from all of the wonderful comments I've received, and publicity for my consulting/software development business, the benefit to PageRank has been tremendous, and search engine referrals are through the roof.

In any case, I have several entries almost ready for publication, so content should ramp up again shortly.

Have a fantastic day and week ahead.

Reader Comments

Dennis the attention is well deserved and your domain research makes a compelling argument in following your own interests in research as well as a path less taken.
shaded @ 4/13/2006 8:52:07 PM

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