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What Language Would You Recommend To a Beginner?
Someone asked me an interesting question earlier this week that got me thinking quite a bit. Someone had a son that was interested in building web based applications and wanted to know what they should learn first. The answer to this question could have many answers depending on who it was asked to. Should they start [...]
Tips for Interviews/Resumes
As some of you know, I accepted a new management position at work a few weeks ago. Since then we have been receiving resumes and interviewing folks to take over my old position as a senior engineer. Going through this process, many pet peeves I have are appearing. This is just a quick list of [...]
Promotion! I Accepted a New Position With My Company
A few weeks ago I was offered, and accepted, a new position of Production Manager at work. I officially started the new role last week and should be fully transitioned over this week. The lack of posts here has suffered, as I’ve spent a lot of time getting things in order for the new position. [...]
ESPN’s New Social Media Policy: Good or Bad?
Yesterday afternoon ESPN released a memo to it’s employees detailing guidelines in their social media policy. I’m not sure they were really guidelines, but appear to say you cannot participate in any social media conversations that involve sports (without prior approval from your department head). You can judge the policy yourself by reading the memo [...]
Google To Launch New OS
Last night Google dropped some very big news to the world: Google Chrome OS. Yes, you heard that right, Google will be releasing a new operating system. From the small details that were revealed, the OS will be based on a Linux kernel and will first be targeted to netbooks and will be open source. [...]
Authorize.Net Suffers Major Outage
For those of you who own or maintain sites that use Authorize.NET to process transactions, you may have noticed a severe outage of the service over the weekend. Twitter was abuzz with the issues that according to the folks at Authorize.Net was due to a fire at their main data center. Apparantly this affected all [...]
Taking Chance – A Reminder to Never Forget Our Fallen Soldiers
I know my blog normally covers topics related to my profession, but I was moved by watching a movie and felt I wanted to express my thoughts on my blog. I hope you continue reading even though this is off topic for my blog. My wife and I have been avid Netflix customers for quite [...]
The Ripple Effect of Cyber Warfare
I have been interested lately in the various areas of warfare in our current times. The major focus of current situations WILL involve cyber warfare as part of any conflict. Many folks are under the impression that conflicts between other countries than their own really will not change their lives that much. If you are [...]
The Quality of a Good Web Host
Today’s topic is not a new one, at least for me. I have seen some tweets the last few days that has brought this topic back up for discussion: The quality of good web hosting. I will go ahead and say right off the top that I am in the camp of believers who say [...]
Great WordPress Plugin – Absolute Privacy
For those of you that follow this blog, you know I was looking for a web based code snippet library. After checking out some of the ones I came across I ended up making the decision to use a WordPress blog for the library. It has everything I needed out of the box (categories, tags, [...]
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