It seems like a week can't go by without one of my friends/colleagues Yahoo email account being hacked and sending me phishing messages. Yahoo must either have the worst security, or the worst users who succomb to phishing attacks. Either fix it o...
Not that I am remodeling, or anything that ambitious, but I have some advice nonetheless. When you remodel say a bathroom, and there are two sinks (his/hers, very common), don't buy just two sets of fixtures. Buy a spare. This is so that in 5/7/10...
I was in a meeting yesterday, and our engineering director made an offhand comment that made me cringe. He commented that our principal developer for one of our products (he really is the only programmer) "like most good programmers" was a physici...
Gotta whine. About once a month, I get an error in Outlook. Something to the point of "OUt of resources" yada yada. And it advises to "close some programs to free up memory..." Has that EVER worked? Sigh. I have 16 gigs, and am running 64-bit Wind...
I recently joined this company, and inherited a product that is world class. But it is missing a pretty important capability (to be fair, when the product was originally developed, this was a feature that wasn't even a twinkling in the eye of the ...
The joy of working in a large enterprise. We have been working with a web development partner for some new sites and moving some older sites to their hosting. Part of this means that we have been exchanging details on the web sites we are migratin...
Sometimes you stumble across someone who has accomplished so much in life that it makes you ponder your own life path. This happens frequently with me, but a few days ago, I bought the latest Paul Gilbert album, Vibrato (kick ass guitar work), and...
Two days ago, we pulled the plug on the hapless guy who was on our project. Not that he is a bad resource, but the project we handed him was beyod his scope, and it was flailing. We consulted another group in my company as to who they would recomm...
I am working with my Marketing team to get a user community site built. It is a pretty straightforward project that will allow our worldwide user base to connect, share tips, scripts and other related items in the use of our product. To spec this ...
If you have been following the saga, I have been working on a new, groovy and cool web community for my products. Something pretty simple to start to build a community of practice. I have complained in the past about the contractor we are using, w...