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Over the past couple years I've seen a lot of enterprise IT departments. Most of them are filled with contractors. In some of these companies there are only 5 or 10 technical employees. The rest of the people in the IT organization aren’t actually employed by the company. That means that the majority of the…
I worked as a middle manager in a large corporation so I've been on the sending and receiving end of emailed spreadsheets and Word docs. Why? Because that's how business was done. I worked in a training organization where we were required to report on training completion numbers. The official training completion report was created…
This is so, so enjoyable. I can't believe they were stupid enough to wait for a press pass. Gizmodo Denied Press Passes for WWDC Keynote: "Brian Lam: It’s no surprise: Apple has not responded to our requests to attend the WWDC keynote on Monday at 10am PST. But we’ll still cover the news. Want to…
People are not always who you expect them to be. I behave mostly the same whether I am at work (IRC), in person, or in IM/regular chat I try to behave the same way in business dealings. I am not going to intentionally fuck someone over for me to make an extra couple dollars. I…
The Apple update to the iP(ad|hone|od) developer agreement 3.3.1 has caused quite a stir in developement communities all over. The change is summarized quite adequately here: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler. Queue the posturing and legal bullshit from all sorts of people and companies. Rather than posting comments to all of the different articles I am just going to…
Read more: Apple, open-ness, and Section 3.3.1 an objective view.
I, finally, made my yearly pilgrimage to the accountant to have my taxes done. The previous 3 years taxes were *extremely* easy to do since I only worked one 1 job and had 1 W2 form that needed to be done. This year was much different, I owned a business, worked for a company based…
Building a community is hard work. There are a lot of steps that have to be taken to attract visitors, draw them in, and retain them. Fortunately, this project came with a community that was already there, just dispersed across 3 or 4 different sites on forums; 1 point for us. The downside is that…
I am behind on my #P52 by a couple weeks so I am going to be catching up over the next few days. Self help books and thousands of books on the Internet would have you believe that starting and running a business is easy, that it doesn't take much, and that you will be…
Edit: It seems that the publish call didn't go through all the way so I am publishing it again. As a contractor I spend a lot of time working on projects other than my own. To keep track of the things I need to do for each project as well as University classes I have…
In my Computer Science course I was asked to write a program, in Java, that would compute the powers of 2 from 2^1 to 2^20 using only a while statement. At first I tried, with just the basics that we had learned so far, to create the program. Things did not go well because I…