A little Linux box
It's a nice little box that is useful for my limited Linux use case. It would also be useful as a small home server. The...
Is agile dead?
Agile has proved it works when the conditions for it are ripe, but isn't ideal for all circumstances. Circumstances have changed in the past 2-3...
New year, new place
The day after Christmas I loaded the cats into the car, turned in the key to my Seattle place, and headed east into a snowstorm....
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....
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...
No Undoing
The joy of photography for me was never in the finished product, and certainly not the moment of capturing the image on film. The joy...
Lessons from the top of a snowy hill
Things are rather treacherous out there. In my neighborhood, we have new-fallen (unplowed) snow, on top of wet (now frozen) fallen, partly-decayed, slippery leaves that...
Low-level understanding matters
If you haven't figured out how to get the most out of what you already have, don't ask me for more RAM/disk/CPU or anything else....