Michele Neylon's post What to watch out for when hiring a developer got me thinking about the experiences I've had in coordinating web development and integration projects. I've made my fair share of mistakes both as a builder and manager, but they've prepared me to recognize the symptoms of a project that might be [...]
Musing About Hiring Web Developers
January 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tags: · Computers, Development, Howto, Information Security, Internet, Management, Software, System Administration, Technology, Tutorial, Web Design, Work
Inbox Glut
January 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments
The next time you're lamenting about how many emails you need to deal with, give poor Dennis some consideration...
My work email Inbox contains a whopping 12,345 (I can't wait until I hit 123,456!) messages, and that was after a clean-up of around 400 messages this morning. I have 1446 unread messages in my Inbox, and [...]
Tags: · Computers, Email, Personal, Ranting, Spam, Work
Whiteout
February 18th, 2006 · No Comments
After what seems like several weeks of mild weather in Ottawa, Friday brought with it heavy winds, freezing rain, and blowing snow. Freezing rain fell overnight and into Friday morning. Road conditions were fair in the morning, but as time passed very heavy winds and blowing snow made travel nothing short of treacherous [...]
Tags: · Automotive, Canada, Cars, Ontario, Ottawa, Personal, Weather, Work