Recently I caught a few minutes of a CSPAN interview with Chief Justice John Roberts, part of a larger presentation on the Supreme Court (sorry, I could not find a link to it) that talked about how they handle deciding cases. At some point after oral arguments they convene in a meeting room where only […]
Read more "Collaboration Patterns – Part 2"I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to be more effective at collaborating, usually in the context of a meeting. The line blurs for me there, because partly I think it’s just a meeting issue – but let me share and then see what you think. Let me start with an example. Recently I […]
Read more "Collaboration Patterns – Part 1"Late last year I used the DevExpress controls for a small task after they were recommended by a friend. Very similar to the native ASP.Net controls in Visual Studio 2008, just more powerful and better looking too. I had a grid control on a web page that needed some changes, swapped out for the DE […]
Read more "DevExpress and a Stumper"I bought a Bamboo Touch over the holiday break, it’s a multi-touch pad with stylus. Easy install, basically plug in to USB and go. Multi touch was similar to what you would do on an iPhone, lots of options to customize. The stylus was interesting, did pretty well even with my pretty horrible hand writing, […]
Read more "Comments on the Bamboo Touch"Last week I posted about Picking a Blog Platform on some of the process that lead to me moving to WordPress. This time I thought I’d share some notes on the install and customization process so far. This is on a Windows 2003 server running IIS 6. I’m assuming here that if you decide to […]
Read more "Installing WordPress"For the past couple years I’ve been using Community Server for blogging, only because that’s the platform that’s been part of SQLServerCentral.com. It works, but it’s not fancy. The only other platform I’ve used is Blogger. It’s functional, easy to set up, let’s you use your own domain name, and of course the price is […]
Read more "Picking a Blog Platform"Bill Graziano posted some thoughts about the merits of East Coast vs West Coast placement of the Summit. He did a fair job on the main points and I encourage you to read it and post your thoughts. Now for my own! One thing Bill omits is that for many of us, we combine the […]
Read more "PASS Summit – Where to Hold it in 2011"Posting goals online is great as long as you meet your goals, can be something less than great if you don’t. It’s all in the point of view that your next client/employer has, do they like someone that sets goals even if there is some risk, or do they see someone that doesn’t follow through […]
Read more "Goals for 2010"I’ve been ‘on vacation’ for two weeks and it’s been nice to relax. I wasn’t able to unplug entirely, but did keep the work to a minimum. I checked email each day to delete junk and reply only if it seemed urgent, then closed Outlook and returned to vacation. Only visited the office once for […]
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