Musings
Free services are nice, but when you want extended features and flexibility, you sometimes have to built it yourself.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: URL Redirection
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
The word "should" can cause a lot of stress in your life, but it can be an inspirational word as well. The trick is in how you use it.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: Productivity
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings
Rather than exercise for the sake of exercising, try exercising to get something accomplished.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: Rural Living
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings
Assigning tasks a numerical priority is a waste of time. Try the This Release method instead and save yourself some stress.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: Productivity, Release Cycle, Setting Project Priorities
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
This is a banner day. After several weeks of converting pages, writing new copy, and integrating new programming features, the new Logical Expressions Web site is alive and well.
- James H. Byrd
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
A tale of how getting cellular broadband has improved my computing life.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: Cellular Broadband, FTP, Home Office, Rural Living, Satellite Broadband
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
My current project is to rebuild our company web site, and the experience is producing plenty of fodder for future Nerdy Musings articles. Which topics would you like to learn more about?
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: 404 Redirection, Configuring IIS, JavaScript, Microsoft VB.NET, URL Redirection, XML
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
Wrong documentation is worse than no documentation. I recently got to experience the frustration of following Microsoft's instructions for an IIS configuration change, only to discover that the instructions were incorrect.
- James H. Byrd
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
This article gives you a few ideas for how you can evaluate and manage the environmental and procedural factors that contribute to poor productivity.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: Business Considerations, Managing Distractions, Productivity, Reuseless, Software Reuse
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
Don't let hype anxiety and career anxiety jeopardize your ability to deliver projects.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: Breathless Development, Career Anxiety, False Urgency, Hype Anxiety, Software Architecture, Technological Obsolescence
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
Many Visual Basic developers are upset by Microsoft's plans to scrap the very language that put them on top of the development environment heap.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: Microsoft VB.NET, Visual Basic 6
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
Setting up a home office in a rural area teaches you to appreciate urban technological amenities.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: FTP, Home Office, Power Outage, Remote Desktop, Rural Living, Satellite Broadband
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
Rapid technological obsolescence takes some of the joy out of building a great application.
- James H. Byrd
- Tagged With: Business Considerations, CD Recycling, Software Upgrades, Technological Obsolescence
- Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Musings, Technology
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