Over on my other blog (EdibleTorah.com), I suggest that “I don’t know” is a powerful phrase with regard to personal growth. I submit that it is equally powerful in the world of…
#BlogElul Day 5: Accept
Larry Wall (creator of the Perl programming language) famously said, “Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.” In one…
#BlogElul Day 4: Understand
IT is one of the few places I can think of where people who call themselves professionals can be successfull even while they don’t understand huge swaths of the technology they use….
#BlogElul Day 3: Search
In the context of IT, searches are an every hour, if not an every minute, experience. Almost nothing that we need is at our fingertips. Which is interesting, since IT Professionals tend…
#BlogElul Day 2: Act
After 27 years in IT, I’ve developed a conflicted relationship with the idea of “acting”. On the one hand, I’ve seen coworkers locked into an infinite loop of planning, research, testing, etc…
#BlogElul Day 1: Prepare
For IT professionals, there is all kinds of preparations that we have learned are essential, if not extremely wise: As my friend Tom (SQLRockstar) says, having backups is job #1 Also from…
ZeroDay: Introducing #BlogElul
tl;dr version A daily blog-athon is starting up next week with hundreds of people writing a daily post on a specific theme. You are invited to participate. Long version Coming up soon…
Seven
In my faith, when someone dies the bereaved observe a period of mourning for 7 days. During those days, people come and offer their support while the mourner sits on a low…
Negative Reaction
I’m watching the replay of the Windows 10 announcement (here: http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/), and I’m horrified. Having worked with Windows since 1989, when you could get a copy of Windows 286 for free when…
Me In Three! (Ok, four. OK, maybe five.)
First, as should be clear if you read more than half a blog post, I’m a computer geek, data nerd, tech fanboi – use whatever vaguely deprecating term you like. Second. I…