Have you ever been on a web conference where people complained about it not working on their operating system of choice? Tired of hearing Linux and OS X users (rightfully) object to the use of web conferencing software that gives them limited (if any) screen sharing capabilities? I am and I think I may have …
Category Archives: Misc
Test
This is a test from the Nokia N800.
Welcome to The Year 2002
OK, it’s been a while since I last posted here. It’s been a long while. I’d like to report that I’ve been busy doing something amazing but that would be stretching the truth just a wee bit too much. Instead, I’m here to report that I’ve made a discovery that most probably made around 2002 …
An Ancient Thanksgiving Recipe
Although many of my co-workers did not believe I made the delicious dish known as squash stuffing, I will still post the recipe here as requested. I know what some of you are already thinking, “he’s like some sort of Renaissance Scrum Master.” Who am I to argue? I coach agile software development teams, write …
Making The Holidays Extra Special This Year
Since my game changing book won’t likely be ready in time for the holidays, I figured I should provide the readers of this blog with a great gift to give to their friends and family this Christmas. The picture in this post is just one of many styles of shirts you can purchase with the …
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Mercy! (i.e. WordPress Upgrade)
Tonight I decided to upgrade this blog to the latest and greatest version of WordPress. I originally went down the path of following the upgrade instructions when I realized that it was kind of crazy to do so when there is the option of using Subversion. The problem with the traditional upgrade is that it …
Communicate
After the past two days, I felt the need to post this: To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office. To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown. American Heritage Dictionary definition of communicate
Why I Blog
A friend and I were instant messaging the other day and he asked me why I started this blog. I never got a chance to reply to him directly so I figured I jot some thoughts down here. I know there are still a lot of people that think blogging is a waste of time. …
Twitter Tools WordPress Plugin Fix
After getting an hour or so to focus on coding around the Twitter issue I previously posted about, I think I have a fix. For whatever reason the Twitter API is accepting requests from CURL but not from Twitter Tools use of the PHP library Snoopy. Not all PHP installs have the CURL extension installed, …
Attack of The Resume
Is your resume really long? Is it chock full of never ending prose? Does it cover every job you’ve held since about the age of ten? Does your resume lose YOUR attention three sentences in? Take heart, you’re not alone. I’ve noticed a trend in tech resumes over the years. They tend to be extremely …