The iPod has been around since 2001 and changes every year. And for those who want to maximize their fun with the latest hardware and software, J.D. Biersdorfer's iPod: The Missing Manual, 8th Ed. shows the way in full color....
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Last week I wrote a post on Building Better Software called When Team Members Hate Each Other. I started to answer a question that I recently got from the audience at the end of one of my Beautiful Teams talks...
I just held a reunion with people I worked with at a real-time and
data acquisition computer vendor 20 years ago, and was interested to
see how many ended up in another, related line of work.
sys includes features for trapping and working with exceptions.
In Part 1 we examined how to use Publish Services to control target folders on the hard drive using the Hard Drive Publish Connection.
There's another Publish Service that comes with Lightroom 3 Beta. The Flickr Publish Service allows us to connect Lightroom to a Flickr account (or multiple Flickr accounts) and manage our photostream from within Lightroom. However, there are some pitfalls to watch out for. Remember, this is beta software, so as you come across issues or areas that can be improved please join the conversation over at the Adobe Forums and tell the Lightroom team about it. You can help make this a great release!
Continue reading Lightroom 3 Beta's Publish Services - Part 2.
A little over a year ago, I uprooted my life of practically 30 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and transplanted it to Seattle's Puget Sound (which, if you're an audio guy, has a nice ring to it) ...
Continue reading Apparently, The Implants ARE Removable ....
The Drupal Content Management System keeps getting better and better. But the learning curve is still steep and the interface is still tricky - even after working with it for several years, some gotchas keep tripping me up. That tells...
A recent Wal-Mart intrusion story inspired me to summarize the most egregious, reckless, painful, negligent, sad, idiotic examples of failures with logs and logging - "Top Log FAIL." I am pretty sure that esteemed readers of SysAdmin Blog would never, ever do anything of that sort.
IBM marketing guy Rob Weir has half of a new series of blogs The Final OOXML Update up. Readers may be surprised that I agree with many of the points he makes, among them, the importance of a balance of interests, the need for continued participation and the need for followthrough on the BRM decisions.
If you have ever had to localize your website or web app, you know that it can be time consuming, difficult and expensive. This week we (www.worldwidelexicon.org) are rolling out a new service that makes this as simple as a...