Category Archives: Business

Document Surgery

== == Things with the job have been okay lately — sometimes really good — and people are telling you how happy they are that you’re there. Admittedly, though, this is one of those low moments of the job that … Continue reading

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Your own personal marketing campaign

Seeing that I left off my last entry by noting that getting interviews is the other half of the battle, I figured I’d share how I’ve been doing that, too. One of the really interesting things about the job search … Continue reading

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First pass at a cover letter

I mean, we’re all looking for kind of the same thing, aren’t we: a chance to bring people together and get ahead, and maybe, just maybe to put together a great group of people and doing something really HUGE in life. The fact that we feel the need to state and restate the obvious is just a bit funny, don’t you agree? Continue reading

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Projects vs. jobs–what’s the difference?

Well, I said I would write it. This is the blog where I go on and on about what project management is and how it’s different from work. Fascinating, I know. Continue reading

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Gigs

Writing good software should always be about enabling people to do new, cool stuff that they only previously could have imagined. Continue reading

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Mozilla Changes Gears

There’s quite a buzz in the Mozilla community about an organization restructuring. This restructuring comes with the third modification of Mozilla’s roadmap. Mozilla: Mozilla Development Roadmap. We have come a long way. We have achieved a Mozilla 1.0 milestone that … Continue reading

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Project Management Methodologies

One of the interesting (if tedious) responsibilities for my Senior Project class at NJIT is to discover, interpret, and choose a project management methodology. Having had no real prior experience in the theory of project management, this has been a … Continue reading

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Open Source Project Management

Update: it’s no secret that I am using Basecamp for project management these days. The Linux desktop may not be ready for Joe User and his grandmother, but is it ready for the knowledge worker? This is a question I’ve … Continue reading

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Bad Day at Work

My friend Roger managed to articulate my day in a nutshell (I guess this Friday’s been a rough one for everyone):      ”Roger, [so-and-so] was looking for you.”      Roger: “Yeah…I think I’m just going to start handing out darts.”

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