BACK IN THE SUMMER OF 2001, JUST A FEW WEEKS into my job at InfoWorld, I attended our CTO Forum event. When dinner rolled around, I sat at a random table. Two men already seated introduced themselves: Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML, and Dan Bricklin, co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet. "Wow," I thought to myself. "Just by chance I'm sitting with two people who have made world-changing contributions to technology." Although I was in awe, I had an engaging con- versation with Tim and Dan about open source and content management. I knew I was learning from the masters. That's typical of how my job as InfoWorld CTO has been for the past four-and-a-halfyears.
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