The first thing I looked for after successfully migrating my old blog content to WordPress was some new plugins. The plugin ecosystem for WordPress has always impressed me with it’s diversity and range. The first two plugins I installed have actually changed the way I think a little bit about Read more »
Category Archives: Technology
Towards an Open Rubric – Part Two
In part one, I related the shambling development project to build an online generalized rubric builder/application tool, codename:”Rubricator”, at the IST Solutions Institute at Penn State from 2007-2008. The official project met an untimely demise as a result of a college reorganization. While this certainly wasn’t the first technology project Read more »
IT Leaders can learn a lot from McDonald’s
While I’m sure a few IT professionals wound up working in Food Service after the dotcom bubble burst, that is not really what this post will be about. Instead, I want to share a perspective on job rotation and how it makes better leaders, and how the IT world could Read more »
That’s one full-service helpdesk…
An actual photo from my office: I’m glad the I.T. group could take care of that.
A day of software best practices
Dating back to my days as a consultant in the waning hours of the dotcom era, there were two truths I came to view as fundamental: 1) Once you get to a certain point in your development as a programmer, the actual functioning of software ceases to be a mystery. Read more »
Fun with Twitter
Stevie told me about Twitter sometime last week, but things have been so hectic I haven’t had a chance to try it until tonight. It’s pretty entertaining so far. Twitter is sort of an RSSoCS – Really Simple Stream of Consciousness Syndication. It’s basically an SMS/IM aware blog or diary, Read more »
Fighting Email Harvesting
I stumbled upon this in a Slashdot thread: http://www.projecthoneypot.org It’s a project to fight email address harvesting by spammers. I think this is the first project I’ve seen where legal recourse is actually a component of the strategy.
Adobe Flex Derby
Adobe just announced the winners of their Flex Developer Derby. There are some great entries, so check em out! Flex has the potential to out-do Ajax as a platform for building expressive Web apps. I’ve been working pretty heavily on a Flex project for the last few weeks, and I Read more »
My Nerd Score
I stumbled on this in a blog I read and had to try it out. My Nerd Score: I’m so ashamed. Maybe I’ll get a higher score if I take it again.