Archive for the ‘Enterprise’ Category
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
One of the things I’ve always loved about working in this industry is the “breathing room” we give ourselves to figure things out on our own. Depending on the project or tasks, we’re able to draw on our experiences and knowledge to tackle problems of all sizes. To make things ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I decided to spend some quality time working on the Windows Workflow application I wrote to support the document workflow that is such a crucial part of the weekly Technical Review Board that I run for change management. The first couple of iterations of the application were pretty simple: it ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Years ago, when I first started working in the IT business at a small electric company in Texas, I had a coworker named Jim. Jim was in his 60s and had been an electrical engineer all his life, which in 1994 added up to about 40 years. He was enormously ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
I love coding. I always have, and I think I always will. When I’m writing code, I’m having fun, I’m satisfying my intellectual curiosity, I’m creating something, I’m accomplishing a goal, and I’m getting instant gratification. I just love to code. The thing is, I don’t get to do much ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I'm not a big fan of the one-size-fits-all approach to processes. I think that processes can be good, like when they formalize the way people do things and establish a single point of understanding. I think that processes can be bad, like when they're so complex and unrelenting that they ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
How many times have you heard the expression, “the customer is always right?” I’ve been giving this a lot of thought lately as I work very closely with my customer and make daily decisions that affect them. On the one hand, there’s the issue of what the customer really ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Back when the dot-com boom was going on, anyone with HTML on his resume could get a job in the tech industry. When the bubble burst, those people were naturally weeded out of the industry as they couldn’t find sustainable employment in the post-boom and post-9/11 economy.
Fast forward to eight ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
The subject sums up how I feel today, now that my employer has replaced my long-in-the-tooth Latitude D810 with a brand new Latitude D830. It may not sound like much, but it’s a massive upgrade. Now I can run Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Outlook at the same time!
The laptop ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Over the past fifteen years that I've been in information technology, I've heard countless different opinions on the value of certifications, which certifications to get, the role of certifications in hiring and promotion decisions, the degree vs. certification argument, and whether certifications lead to vendor lock-in. In my younger days ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
I'll admit it: I was a bit late to the Twitter game. I remember when it launched, but I honestly couldn't find a value for it beyond the novelty. Over the past year, Twitter has become very popular with all kinds of people, evolving into a communications medium through which ...
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