The Research Part of R&D

Technically, my current title is Research and Development Manager, or R&D Manager. I'm sometimes even referred to as VP of R&D. However it seems like I do a whole lot more D than R. Perhaps my title should be more like D^10+R Manager.

There are so many technologies, libraries, and solutions out there that I would really like to dive into. Unfortunately, my time is very limited because of the heavy need for the "D" part of my job.

Here is a partial list of items I would like to research during 2008. I am shocked that two are from Yahoo.

• Enterprise Services Bus, specifically WSO2 http://wso2.org/projects/esb/java
• Yahoo Pipes - RSS feed aggregator thingy. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
  
• Yahoo UI Library - JavaScript, baby. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/