So as we relaunch the Technology Musings blog,  we have added a new feature to it called “Ask The Experts”.  You will find the link to this at the top of the Technology Musings blog.

This came about because a lot of people who read this blog have over time tracked me down through Twitter, LinkedIn, and other means in order to ask me specific question about something of interest to them or about a particular problem they have with something.  As a result we decided that we would add a simple form to the blog which would allow people to ask these questions without having to jump through hoops to get to me and my colleagues.  So we would encourage you to use it to ask your questions.  We can’t  promise to be able to answer them all but we will do our best to at least respond to every request.  Things we would expect to get through this mechanism include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Requests for a blog article on a certain topic
• Questions about something we already wrote about but that people felt were better served through a direct question instead of the comments (but we encourage you to use the comments so others can learn as well)
• Specific questions related to some challenge you may be having with a project of your own.  See note below on this one.
• Anything else you folks can come up with

Where appropriate we will try and put the answers to question into a blog post either here or on the Nebility Blog depending on the topic and how it aligns with each blog.  We will of course anonymize anything we use for a blog article and make it more general, unless you give us specific permission to use you name/case as is.

NOTE: while we will try and answer every request we receive through this “Ask the Experts” mechanism, we cannot guarantee to be able to answer everything either because we don’t know the answer, don’t have time or the question is too specific to someone’s particular system issue and requires too detailed an answer to respond quickly.  In these cases we will at least try and get back to you to let you know we can’t answer and why.

Anyhow, what we are hoping is that people will use this opportunity to ask questions about any topic in the following broad categories:

• Technology in General
• Systems Design and Architecture
• Systems Implementation
• Enterprise Data
• Large Scale Systems
• User Experience Techniques and Technologies
• Technology Startups
• request a blog article on a specific topic
• or any other question or request which may fall inside our sphere of expertise

So think of the questions you may have that we could possibly answer and start asking away.  We can’t promise to be able to answer every question that comes our way as we may not always have the time to answer every question or the expertise to answer it.  That said, we will try to at least respond to every request as soon as we can.

So go ahead and “Ask The Experts”.

As always, you can reach me through the comments, at Nebility, on Twitter, LinkedIn or by using the Ask the Experts form.