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lynx and mod_security

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 […]

2009 12 07 WordPress Comments (2)

Python and the Mac

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 message […]

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2009 08 20 Comments (2)

Becoming the Non-Coding PM

I’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 […]

2009 08 13 Project Management Comments (4)

Coding vs Non-Coding Project Managers

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 […]

2009 08 11 Project Management Comments (4)

Scrumming

So now I’m a Cer­ti­fied Scrum Mas­ter, or at least I will be once the paper­work is sub­mit­ted and checked. Right now it’s a fairly pain­less pro­cess, you show up to a sem­inar, take part in an act­ive way, and emerge at the end cer­ti­fied by the instructor. In a few months people will have […]

2009 06 24 Project Management Comments (3)

Cloudy Ideas

Many people out­side the knit­ting world prob­ably don’t think about the fact that knit­ters have con­fer­ences too, where they register for classes taught by fam­ous people at some venue. Recently a fam­ous knit­ter (Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka Yarnhar­lot) organ­ised such an event. I think she got some bad advice from her IT people, who­ever they were, […]

2009 06 03 Comments (3)