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hello, i am bob balfe, this blog is about how technology is changing ecommerce, marketing, and and supply chain. i also seldomly do book. my ibm career started, with no surprise, from an acquisition. i started as an automation developer for quality as*urance on the lotus notes and domino products at iris as*ociates. i quickly understood how bad it was to “break the build”, which ran every single day against millions of lines of code. the test frameworks we created over 19 years ago are still in use today, testing over 20m lines of code on more than a half-dozen platforms each and every build. i got the chance to speak at lotussphere as a developer – something i had only dreamed of being a customer the prior 10 years – it was a dream come true. laurie sprauge took me under her wing and we created a and before long i aquired a fairly decent following. this was started by the digital ibmer initiative where senior leadership encouraged developers to start writing blogs, articles, and code for developerworks or your own site. it was to grow ibm technology organically on the internet – this was another thing i grew to love very quickly. i did lotusphere talks for the next several years until i moved over into websphere commerce – something i didn’t even really know ibm did until a colleague said i should give it a look. i went over into technical sales and wrote some tools and techniques to help out the sellers world-wide in creating complex ecommerce demonstrations quickly. it literally changed the way we sold going forward – creating more compelling demos and pocs in hours versus weeks; something our competition would beat us down for. i then achieved distinguished engineer, arguably one of my greatest professional accomplishments (so far) and i have so many to thank for that i can i got to travel the world working for ibm and meet amazing people, experience different cultures, centuries old architecture, amazing customers, and most of all, other ibmer’s who all had a common goal – be the best for ibm.