technology
Changes Coming at Work
For those who don’t know: My employer, ITS Consulting, is a consulting company; they hire out to other businesses to solve IT/tech challenges. In 2016 I was in a near-fatal crash, while cycling home from work, that has left me with multiple challenges and thus far I’ve only been able to work part time at …
Video as a Training Tool
What does one do on a boring, cold, snowy Thurs night? Create dev on-boarding/training tools of course.
Web Apps Should Always Have a Log
I’m working on an event log for a client (of my employer): At a bare minimum, an event/security log offloads some of the responsibility to the user. If you show fail and successful login attempts hopefully a user will catch when their own account has been compromised even if you can’t (I.E. their password was …
The Relationship of Data & Time
I was trying to think of how to communicate this to a client, I’m still not sure how to communicate this in a non-technical way. I also think this is valuable for most people to know & think about. Data, if it changes, has a relationship with time.
I Will Never Sub-Contract Again
I’m facing some serious issues in my current contract position. What started as “I’m willing to work hard, full-time for 4 months to deal with these serious security flaws” has been whittled down. What I originally quoted as a project plan was 570 hours at an hourly rate. On the other hand the contract manager …