lessons learned
Teach me to fish
Image via Wikipedia A common proverb goes something like this: Catch a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. The point of this is that I can only go so far if you catch a fish for me every day. [...]
The case for more local community networking groups
Image by danieljohnsonjr via Flickr In a recent interview I was asked if I was unwilling to promote other networking groups. It would seem some are under the impression that only a select can create community events. The case for more local community networking groups Now, if you’re active in the social media community in [...]
The CinDaily Podcast Interview
Joe Wessels, the host of the CinDaily podcast, had me on his program yesterday to talk about New Media Cincinnati and specifically the recent “tempest in a teapot” situation that occurred over the past week. It was a great opportunity to tell the story of New Media Cincinnati and how this social media community has evolved [...]
Podcast download numbers for How I Got My Job
I’ve been checking out the numbers for How I Got My Job episodes, and I thought it might be instructive to share what I’ve uncovered so far. This discussion will get a bit technical.
Dealing with down days
Image by _mandrew_ via Flickr crossposted to Get That Job! Yesterday was a down day. I don’t think I’ve felt so down like this in quite a long time. It was quite an emotional day of dealing with insecurity, anxiety, stress, and self-doubt. As I think back to what contributed to this, I can definitely [...]
Three words for 2010
Over the holiday break I thought about where I’d like to be one year from now. As I mentioned on the last episode of the Journey Inside My Mind podcast, “Turn the page“, most of my work in using new media technologies has been highly experimental. I’ve tried things out just to see what would [...]
On the moves to WordPress
About a month and a half ago, I announced that I was making the move from Blogger to WordPress. It’s taken some time, but I think I’m getting the hang of this blog migration thing. Moving a blog with lots of content I have even moved my oldest and one of my largest blogs, Journey [...]
Reaching the point of diminishing returns on a project
Over the past month, I have been working on a project to automate payroll entry for a client that has close to 300 employees and is growing. Naturally, it is the company’s best interest to get this payroll automated as much as possible. To do this I’ve been developing an application to bridge the payroll [...]
When the feature became a problem
When I was initially developing the bridge application a couple years ago, I had set up the Close button on several forms to be the Cancel button. That way a user can just hit the Esc button to close the form, if they prefer to use the keyboard. As the applications for various clients have [...]
Lesson learned while on a mission critical conversion project
Here’s a project I worked on where I learned an important lesson. The client was a global consumer products company, and the project was to convert an Access 2.0 application to Access 95, which was a conversion from a 16-bit environment to a 32-bit environment. I’m not even going to claim that I understand what [...]
