I am thinking considering a project-related certification. There is the CITPM and the PMP. I recently attended an intro talk by the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) on Certified IT Project Manager (CITPM). According to their website, there are 2129 certified…
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
I was browsing through Google + when I came across a post on the Four Agreements. There is quite a bit of existential stuff. If you were sieved it out and stick to the main points gives you some clarity.…
Mobile WiFi
A mobile WiFi, is the key connection happiness. When you are out and about and you need Internet access for your notebook, a quick solution is to do WiFi tethering with your smartphone. For some people this option is not…
New work place
A window closes and another opens. New work place.
BYOD
What is that? Its Bring Your Own Device. That is the latest trend in end user computing. Instead of the company purchasing the computer for you, you use the allocated amount to buy the device or you supply it. It is…
Certifications and you.
Have you checked what is the state of your IT certifications? Ok, now have you checked what is the market expectations of your IT certifications? That is not so easy, right? Employers are now expecting all project managers to be…
ITIL
When started in the IT industry, certain things were niggling me. Like what was the best practice for running an IT operations. In the pre Yahoo days, there simply none to be found. With the advent of search engines, learning…
Class projects
You take night classes and the homework is to research on a company and do a group presentation. The team sit down, trash out the issues, chopped up the action items and do up a schedule. The next time you…
Did you change the settings?
Way back in the days of Wordstar, I used to reconfigure nearly every option, colors, backspace buffer, highlights etc. It was really easy, all the settings is in just one file. The single program instance helps a lot. When I…
Backup your data
This is the most basic and important operational task. All data should be backed up as frequently as possible. This is to protect against logical data corruption or data loss. The server’s hard disk is protected by RAID 5, but…