Some months ago, Time magazine published an article called Why the Office Oddball Is Good for Business, about how really productive meetings need someone in them to stop too much consensus too early. The article starts Want to get the most out of your next brainstorming session at work? Bring in an oddball. If you [...]
In the general spirit of tidying up before the Christmas/New Year period I used a link checker on my blog (Integrity on the Mac, I’ve also used Xenu on Windows). And discovered a bunch of 404s. Some were to sites that still exist but either reorganized without setting up 301 redirects, or deleted the content [...]
I’ve been implementing more web sites recently; it appears to be one part of the technology market for which there is still demand. One of the things I push when I meet with clients is accessibility, so I figured I should test my own sites and make sure they’re reasonably accessible. Lynx is one tool [...]
I wanted to run a python program on my Mac that was originally written for Linux. Should work just fine, right? Well, not quite. Given it took quite a while to figure out precisely what I needed, I’m writing it up for next time I need to do this. The first problem was an error [...]
Tagged macosx, pythonI’ve had a couple of interesting comments on my piece about Coding vs Non-Coding Project Managers; in my case it was the way things worked out rather than a deliberate choice. After my degree in physics, and a couple of years of post-doctoral work (which involved some computer stuff, of course) I got post-graduate diploma [...]
In my posting about becoming a Scrum Master, I talked about teams with non-coding project managers often being more effective than teams with project managers who also code. It seems that that’s a minority view; most companies appear to assume that any project manager should also actively code. I agree that any project manager in [...]
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