I'm P.J. Hinton, a Senior Software Engineer (and wannabee wordsmith) at Compendium Blogware.

I'm part of a talented and passionate team of software and system engineers who are working to develop a better business blogging platform.

photo of P.J. HintonI started with the company at the beginning of the year and have been involved in a number of projects, including a new template-based HTML rendering service, an asynchronous blog post update notification system that employs cloud computing, and real-time keyword strength scoring for blog post editing.

Prior to transitioning to the world of web application development, I had worked largely on cross-platform, native code applications in C and C++. My last role was a two-year stint at Rhysome, a northside startup aspiring to develop a general purpose complex event processing application. Before that, I spent a almost a decade at Wolfram Research, working on various parts of the wildly successful technical computing package Mathematica.

I joined Compendium because I've been a longtime believer in the power of blogging, and I saw how the company's vision was validating what had been predicted some ten years ago by Doc Searls and others about the internet's disruptive impact on markets.

Compendium's leadership has succeeded in fostering a creative, energetic, and dynamic working atmosphere, something you'd be more likely to find in the Silicon Valley rather than the Circle City. What's not to love about that? :-)

I'm using this space to blog about subjects like:

  • the useful features of our blog hosting software
  • the value of corporate blogging in general
  • administrative issues in maintaining business blogs
  • the use of software to understand social networks
  • technologies relevant to our software development efforts