Joseph Gulla
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Joseph Gulla got his start in IT as a COBOL programmer in the late 1970s. He has worked with IBM products as a developer, system operator and instructor. Gulla has a Ph.D. in CIS from Nova Southeastern University and an MBA in MIS from La Salle University. Since 2000, Joe has helped StreamFoundry, an IBM Business Partner, with competitive software migrations and has continued his long association with Alazar Press as its general manager.
Things They Didn’t Teach Me in School: Polyglot
October 2, 2017
Over the years, you’ve probably spent a lot of time reading and studying computer topics. I have attended many classes and even taught a few and never came across the topics of polyglot persistence and programming. If somebody taught me about polyglot anything, I am sure that I would have remembered it. These are topics, […]
ArticlesFuture of Testing
September 25, 2017
This is the last post in this series on enterprise testing. The focus has been on both system and application programmers in an enterprise systems setting. The first post described enterprise testing and explained the many challenges that programmers experienced 40 years ago in deploying defect free software. The next two posts discussed system programmers […]
ArticlesFocus on Application Testing
September 18, 2017
This is the third post in this series on system and application testing on enterprise systems. In this post, I discuss the daunting job of being a mainframe application programmer and how he or she goes about testing. The testing scope can cover everything from deployment of a new release of ISV software to a […]
ArticlesSystem Programmers and System Testing Challenges
September 11, 2017
What is the role of a mainframe system programmer, and how do they go about testing and covering everything from a major OS release to a specific software product?
ArticlesEnterprise Testing
August 28, 2017
This is the first post in this series on system and application testing on enterprise systems. On mainframes, there are two kinds of programmers—application programmers and system programmers. They are both developers but they operate in different circles because their jobs are fundamentally different. They collaborate with each other, especially when system programmers launch a […]
ArticlesAPIs: The Chicken or the Egg
August 14, 2017
This is the fourth post in this series where I have been writing about the drive for new technology. Is need driving innovation or is innovation driving demand? In other words, what came first: the chicken or the egg? In this post, I explore an area of innovation focused on APIs. Lately, the use of […]
ArticlesCloud: The Chicken or the Egg
August 7, 2017
This is the third post in this series where I have been writing about the drive for new technology. Is need driving innovation or is innovation driving demand? In other words, what came first: the chicken or the egg? In this post, I explore an area of innovation focused on cloud services. Ever wonder about […]
ArticlesNew Technology: B2B Innovations
July 31, 2017
This is the second post in this series where I write about the drive for new technology. Is need driving innovation or is innovation driving demand? In this post, I explore an area of innovation focused on business-to-business (B2B) innovation through collaboration involving sales and information sharing. According to B2B Marketing, “It is expected that […]
ArticlesRoots of New Technology
July 24, 2017
In this post, I am writing about the drive for new technology. Is need driving innovation or is innovation driving demand? I plan to explore this perspective in the coming weeks. This first post in the series introduces the two main ideas. Need Driving Innovation People that focus on innovation tell would-be innovators that marketplace […]
Articles9th Annual Enterprise Computing Community Conference: Day 2
July 17, 2017
In June, I attended the 9th annual Enterprise Computing Community (ECC) conference hosted by Marist College with collaboration and support from academic and industry partners and sponsors. This year’s conference was June 11 to 13, 2017. I gave an overview of the conference in a previous post and I covered in detail the sessions from […]