My most important lesson
Our customers don’t come to us because we have the best technology, they come to us because we provide a better value....
Starting over
I’m feeling ready to write again, and I’ve set up this new environment to do it in....
Moving WordPress (4) – SSL, themes, etc.
With the site(s) kind of up and running, I set about installing the Let's Encrypt Certbot for SSL support. Then I set up themes and...
Moving WordPress (3) – database and content
Almost all WordPress and related instructions assume you are using a "standard" hosting service... I was not doing this....
Moving WordPress (2) – AWS setup
The AWS setup was the easy part. That should have been no surprise, as I've spent lots of time with AWS but very little time...
Moving WordPress (1) – what I wanted to do
This is the first part of my writeup of everything I did to move my site from one EC2 instance to another, and make a...
The Status of Status
Last week I presented some of my thoughts about status reporting to the Vancouver Software Development Managers. What do you think?...
People, Process, Product, Customer, and how people fit in organizations
My best work has been in places that are process-customer, but I've done well in process-product as well. I have not done well in people-dominated...
In praise of simple tools
I write using Emacs and LaTeX. I'll grudgingly copy and paste to other formats because the organization demands it but I do better work with...
Broadly vs. Locally-useful skills
Early on, I programmed on mainframes in COBOL... I'm sure I could do it again. But I'd be tossing away some highly valuable, broadly-applicable and...