As the old saying goes, life is what happens while you're making other plans. Reading your post, I get the feeling that you really don't like computer programming very much. You might discover that you're just as unhappy on the server side as on the UI. If all you've been doing is Microsoft, adding Java to your skill set is definitely a good idea. Or you could become a database guru. Or a cloud guru. Or a network guru. Take a look at coursera.org and udacity.com, and take an online course in something that you think might interest you. But also think about doing something completely different. Maybe you were meant to be a farmer.

I've already discussed all that with my lawyer, and besides that, many readers of my web site are lawyers, and would have written to me about it. The reality today is that the corruption and criminality in Washington and on Wall Street are at enormous levels, at levels so high that they were unthinkable prior to the rise of Generation-X in the 2000s. So the other side of that is nobody gets sued because almost everyone is a criminal, and criminality is the norm, so no one goes to jail. It's possible that someone will try to sue me, but for what purpose? I have almost no money, I'm old enough that I don't give a shit, and suing me would just cause me to write about the people suing me, which would give more publicity to their crimes. They know that, so they'll just ignore me. By the way, the whistleblowers that I wrote about have also given evidence to the FBI, which is investigating the same crimes. These are people who took hundreds of millions of dollars, knowing that their programming staff were too incompetent to even implement a network connection, and the results speak for themselves -- Healthcare.gov: The Greatest IT Disaster in World History.

This is an interesting issue. I chose Arial Black over ten years ago because it's the easiest to read. Most of the people who read my web site are knowledgeable and interested in international and geopolitical issues, which means that they're older, and their eyesight isn't always the best. I know from personal experience that there are many web sites that are absolutely gorgeous to look at but almost impossible to read because of font and color choices. Interestingly enough, in all these years, you're only the second person in all these years to complain about the font. With all the crises going on in the world, I make a point of spending all my time on content, without worrying too much about web site format, since the people who visit my web site every day do so for the analytical content. On the other hand, I'm considering digging back into the code in order to make the pages more mobile-friendly. When I do that, I'll ask some people whether they think that I should change the font and color. Thanks for your suggestion.

OK, thanks for your responses. I had thought you covered software development management issues as well. By the way, as you say, the "Affordable Care Act" is the name of a piece of legislation. The word "Obamacare" is more than a popular nickname. It's the name endorsed by Obama himself to describe its implementation. My article is not about a piece of legislation. It's about the implementation, and especially the web site implementation. Thanks again.

I wrote a couple of articles on the Healthcare.gov software development disaster, and I'm looking for advice on the best way to submit them to CodeProject. I did three months of research, interviewing developers and whistleblowers, and reviewing numerous media reports. I'm not a mainstream journalist, but I was a tech journalist for years, as well as being a senior software engineer. As far as I know, I'm the only journalist who has done such a thorough technical review of what happened. The first article is a journalistic treatment: ** Healthcare.gov -- The greatest software development disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.hcgov150823.htm The second article contains "lessons learned" for managing software development projects, and dealing with project stakeholders who either are incompetent or who actually try to sabotage the project. This article is targeted to managers, researchers, and academics, and contains a lot of technical information that would be useful to both programmers and managers: ** For academics: Dysfunction, subversion, sabotage and fraud in software development projects ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.academic150823.htm The following is my daily World View column, which summarizes the above two articles: ** 23-Aug-15 World View -- Fraud and subversion in Healthcare.gov - the greatest IT disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/xct.gd.e150823.htm#e150823 I would appreciate any advice on the best way to submit these articles to CodeProject. Thanks. John J. Xenakis john@jxenakis.com john@generationaldynamics.com

Thanks, I'll do that.

I wrote a couple of articles on the Healthcare.gov software development disaster, and I'm looking for advice on the best way to submit them to CodeProject. I did three months of research, interviewing developers and whistleblowers, and reviewing numerous media reports. I'm not a mainstream journalist, but I was a tech journalist for years, as well as being a senior software engineer. As far as I know, I'm the only journalist who has done such a thorough technical review of what happened. The first article is a journalistic treatment: ** Healthcare.gov -- The greatest software development disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.hcgov150823.htm The second article contains "lessons learned" for managing software development projects, and dealing with project stakeholders who either are incompetent or who actually try to sabotage the project. This article is targeted to managers, researchers, and academics, and contains a lot of technical information that would be useful to both programmers and managers: ** For academics: Dysfunction, subversion, sabotage and fraud in software development projects ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.academic150823.htm The following is my daily World View column, which summarizes the above two articles: ** 23-Aug-15 World View -- Fraud and subversion in Healthcare.gov - the greatest IT disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/xct.gd.e150823.htm#e150823 I would appreciate any advice on the best way to submit these articles to CodeProject. Thanks. John J. Xenakis john@jxenakis.com john@generationaldynamics.com