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Presentation Tips

Presentation Tips

I recently had the privilege of having Montana Von Fliss give me some pointers on a talk I delivered to a client. She was there in another capacity, but never one to let an oppo...

Asking for Help

Asking for Help

When asking for help I always try to think about whether the person who I am asking can answer my question off the top of their head or if it’s something that will require them ...

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China Hijacking the Internet

(image source Demchak)

Recording Audio with AirPods in Imovie

Recording Audio with AirPods in Imovie

By default iMovie doesn’t recognize AirPods as a recording device. This probably has to do with Bluetooth latency or quality, etc. but if you want to force iMovie into using the...

Create/Publish Scripts

Create/Publish Scripts

In order to make creating and publishing quicker and easier I created a couple of little shell scripts to help me along my way. I have a hard time remembering all the little swi...

Don't Short Circuit a Lesson

Don't Short Circuit a Lesson

Don’t short circuit a lesson because you think you know what the take away is going to be. Too often we try to map other’s experiences or recommendations to our own and we miss ...

Fortnightly

Fortnightly

Sorry biweekly, you’ve just been ejected from my vocabulary. I hate to be esoteric in my language and use a word like fortnightly, but when your definition from Merriam Webster ...

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Joe_CMS Open Source!

I’m happy to say that tonight I’ll be publishing JoeCMS as a free and open source (GPL), as evidenced by the little “Fork me on GitHub” banner in the upper right corner of this ...

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Battling with Word and Excel

I recently had to build a word document that references fields in an excel spreadsheet. Since this report will update over time from data in the spreadsheet I wanted it to pull ...

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New WikiRater Features

I’ve been working to add a few more features for WikiRater that I think are really cool. The one that I’ve had the most fun with so far is the “Trending Article” page. This page...