Category Archives: InformationTechnology

Becoming Scrum Master with Jeff Sutherland

Posted on April 2, 2012 by NealWalters

Last week I attended the Certified Scrum Master class with Jeff Sutherland, one of the inventors of Scrum, and founder of Scrum Inc. Scrum is an agile methodology, used by about 10% of companies today, which produces astounding results compared … Continue reading →

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Why I Switched back to EVO from SENuke?

Posted on February 15, 2012 by NealWalters

SENuke and EVO are both powerful SEO tools. It wasn’t the price savings, but the time savings that made me switch back to EVO from SENuke.  I actually like SENuke better conceptually, but it takes more time to use. Read … Continue reading →

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When Your Google Calendar Software Let’s You Down…

Posted on July 15, 2011 by NealWalters

My next BizTalk contract won’t be in Richmond, Virginia, thanks to Google Calendar! I use Google Calendar everyday, and until now, it has always alerted me to my events and meetings.  Today, I missed a phone interview because I actually … Continue reading →

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Avro’s Flight Simulator (X-Plane)

Posted on June 6, 2011 by NealWalters

Is it my new home video game?  Not quite, this is the flight simulator for the CF105 Avero Arrow project (described in my last blog). It runs X-Plane, which allows engineers to fully simulate any aircraft, with a lot of … Continue reading →

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A Bad WebSite Landlord

Posted on May 27, 2011 by NealWalters

Some of them internet marketing courses talk about websites as though they are real estate; and compare having many small sites to having many rental properties. This is a good analogy, but like rental properties, web sites can get “run … Continue reading →

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New Job in Calgary

Posted on April 24, 2011 by NealWalters

I flew to Calgary this week for a new job, helping a government agency to convert from the IDMS on the mainframe to a Microsoft environment.  For now, I’m staying about two blocks from the office (left modern building shown … Continue reading →

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My Plan to Convert PHP-Fusion sites to WordPress.

Posted on January 28, 2011 by NealWalters

I’m working on a plan on my other site for converting PHP-Fusion sites to WordPress.  PHP-Fusion is a “content management system” (CMS), in which the website can be built almost entirely using a web-browser, and users/authors can update the site … Continue reading →

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Google Reveals Stats in “Amicus Curiae” Brief

Posted on January 27, 2011 by NealWalters

Google recently filed an “amicus curiae” brief in a New York federal court case where EMI (record label) is suing MP3tunes.  An amicus curiae is someone, not a party to a case, who volunteers to offer information to assist a … Continue reading →

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My First OpenSource Project & My Beef With Other OpenSource Projects

Posted on January 18, 2011 by NealWalters

My first open source project that I completed this past weekend was a Python program that helps convert notes from one platform to another (see previous post for details). It is only 212 lines of code.  It probably took 4 … Continue reading →

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Converting Phatnotes to Evernote

Posted on January 18, 2011 by NealWalters

Over the weekend, I convert over 800 notes from Phatnotes to Evernote.  I originally used Phatnotes (from a company called Phatware) to sync notes from my PC to my old windows-mobile phone.  When I switched to Blackberry, I gave up … Continue reading →

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