The secrets of a system integrator. My Journey of Startup, Product + Project Development
Information technology is the art of managing an organization’s processes by establishing and maintaining computing frameworks.
I came across a great article titled:
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
on ComputerWorld. It’s not a site that I frequent very often but this opinion peiece hasd some excellent points.
1. My currency is respect.
Anyone who knows me how often these words come out of my mouth. Whether it pertains to family, friends, or clients, the secret to getting me and keeping me on your side, quite happily going out of my way to help you succeed is respect.
Today I dealt with a strange issue on one of my client’s servers. It was running ColdFusion 8 Standard, inside a Windows 2003 Server VMware virtual machine.
The first time ColdFusion Server was installed, it crashed/timed out. So we rebooted and uninstalled it. We reinstalled and everything looked okay. When we went into the Coldfusion Administrator and tried to create a new collection, we were presented with an error telling us that the search services are not installed.
Jason Fried of 37 Signals wrote an article titled “The way I work” a few days ago about his work schedule, balance, and prioritization.
In it he covers his typical day and mindset. What’s interesting is his focus on basing all of his decisions around eliminating one thing, that I’ve been a huge fan of.
Interruption is the enemy of productivity.
Here’s the deal. When creating anything, be it creative, abstract, or analytical..