One of the major advantages Windows Home Server has over much of it’s competition (external hard drives, generic network attached storage devices, secondary PCs) is that it’s a full Windows Server under the hood and comes along with the ability to host almost any sort of web page or application ...

NDepend is a tool I’d heard about for years, but had yet to really dive into recently. Thanks to the good folks developing it, I was able to try out a copy and have been analyzing my own projects with it. Here’s a brief run-down of my initial experience with it. Installation There is no installa...

Just in time for Halloween, I've decided to publish my Top Ten Tips for Writing Plumtree Crawlers that Actually Work. This post may scare you a little bit, but hey, that's the spirit of Halloween, right? [Editor's note: yes, we're still calling it Plumtree. Why? I did a Google search today and 771,0...

I’m at the Future of Web Apps conference today and tomorrow in London.  Here are a few summary notes from this morning. Note: this gets pretty technical in places. The mornings’s theme seems to have been about operations and development isuses. Digg Recommendations Kevin Rose, from Digg...

There are so many postings out there on all sorts of blogs about how not to waste time that I’m not sure I can contribute something very meaningful (certainly not new), but since it’s something I’ve been thinking about, I might as well spill some ideas about it. Definition Any disc...

One of the things I decided when I started working was that I was not going to be one of those guys who worked 12 hours a day for a company (if I ever become an entrepreneur, all bets are off since I’m working for myself). So far, I’ve been pretty successful, and I’ve noticed a few...

Two weeks ago I wrote a brief post on an exercise around "seizing our greatness" that intrigued and further awakened me.   You'll find the actual exercise at Delightful Work. Since then, thoughts on this topic continue to swirl around in my mind.  It's time to rope them in a...

Table of contents for What I learned while building a WordPress Plugin Things I’ve Learned While building a Wordpress Plugin After building my first few WordPress plugins I learned quite a few things that I just could not find good information on. So what I will be doing over a couple or so po...

A close friend recently shared an observation with me that she heard from listening to the Abraham material.  It's one of those simple-sounding, yet profound distinctions:  We experience the sense of being overwhelmed when we attempt to manage our actions in lieu of managing our energy. Th...

In my previous post I describe taking up the practice of writing morning pages.  This post follows up on my promise to describe what I am gaining from the process. I didn't know what to expect when I began doing morning pages a few weeks ago. Having put in some time with this process, I've come...