Welp, it’s that time of year again. Every year my wife and I head back down to Tampa, FL where all of our family is at, and spend the week running around from house to house to make sure we see everyone. This year is a special treat because we have *4* events to be…
Month: June 2005
Clairvoyant contractors and employees
I recently stumbled across a blog called Anonymous Lawyer that is supposed to be the fictional blog of a lawyer in a large law firm. Good reading. But one of his/her posts in particular hit very close to home. How many times have you been told by your company, or by a client, that you…
Back up and running
Over the past week, I’ve been working on updating the packages on my home machine. I’m running Gentoo, and have for the most part ignored emerge -u world until this week. I finally took the plunge to actually read about it, and after fixing some blocking packages (Yes, you can emerge -C mozilla-thunderbird without it…
QOTD Award: I hope you’re really charming
A recent post on the Joel on Software boards asked a time-old question, “Need to cram for Java interview, what will they ask?“ The response? Perhaps one of the best quotes ever, coming from one BenjiSmith: Well, they might ask you about the Java programming language. In which case, you’ll probably be screwed. I hope…
Let’s go crazy – accessing Timberline / Pervasive Data from a SQL Linked Server
The latest project I am working on introduced me to the wonderful world of Timberline. This is one of the few times when I truly wish the customer we’re building this for would have used Access. Really! But, Timberline (an accounting package that sits on top of Pervasive SQL which sits on top of Btrieve)…
Negotiating
A recent thread on Joel on Software talked about negotiating. I read a book about a year ago by a brilliant guy named Herb Cohen called /Negotiate This, By Caring But Not T-H-A-T Much/. I highly recommend it if you do any kind of negotiating – even over things like what you’ll have for dinner.
Spying on Novell
So I check into my hotel in Provo, UT after all kinds of airport fiasco stuff. I open up the window and what do I see? That’s right, I’ll be darned if I didn’t check in next to Novell headquarters. I completely forgot they were out here. It’s a *very* nice looking campus, mountains all…
Off to Utah, and HttpUnit and JsUnit
Heading off to our satellite office in Provo, UT this morning. Was supposed to leave last night, but the rain in Atlanta pretty much solved that mystery, so it all got shifted around a day. Will be flying back to family arriving at the house, and as soon as they leave, I leave again for…