Monday night at London Western Toastmasters, I gave a speech about getting the momentum going. It was geared to getting used to speaking, getting in front of the club and practicing. I had equated it to driving a 5 speed…
Category: How To
Driving to Your Goals
Posted in #ldnont, How To, Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts, Professional Development, self-improvement Tagged with: Achieving Goals, Toastmasters
How I Achieved Decent Search Ranking
I recently showed my hit stats for my website to a friend, which include the GOOGLE and Yahoo queries. I was asked how I achieved my ranking. I typically see a rank between 3 and 20, which I consider respectable.…
Building a C-Sharp Class
I have created this example of a C# class to demonstrate one way of creating a basic class cbject representing one employee. This class could be used as a starting point for just about any object. Take note that there…
Failure
Failure is an opportunity to find an alternate way of finding success. Dig deep, learn from the events and change. Through change, you can overcome failure. Change brings failure or success; it is a 50% wager. Evolve, learn and morph…
Posted in evaluation, How To, Ideas, Leadership, Listening, Personal Thoughts, Professional Development, Success
Sunni Brown – Doodlers – unite
Sunni Brown speaks of the importance of Doodling. She shares with the audience the misconceptions of doodling and why we may fear doodling in public.
Project Manager – Team Lead – Manager of Development
I have been asked a few times for resources and tips for a new Project Manager, Team Lead, Manager of Development type position. My tips are a generalization as I can pull out more resources for certain situations. Tips 1.…
Posted in Beginning New Management Position, Bosses, Contributing, Developer, Downtime, How To, interview, IT, job interview, Junior, Leadership, Listening
Shortcut To Creating Properties in C-Sharp – Revisited
Based on my earlier an post, a I had a question about my technique and if there was a benefit, or could you use MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Name. Truthfully I did not know the answer until I tried it. I found this new…
The Art of Task Delegation
Delegation is a tough skill to master. Many mangers have trouble delegating tasks to employees because they have trouble giving up control. A good manager knows their strengths and the amount of work load they can handle without stressing.…
Posted in How To, Ideas, Leadership, Personal Thoughts, Team Lead, Team Manager Tagged with: delegate, leader, task, tasks, team
Posting Data From HTML to ASPX
Recently I had a need to have a web site post credentials to another web site. The first site was standard HTML and the second site was DotNet (ASP.NET). In this example, we will be passing a user name and…
Checking Active Process on Sql Server
I have needed to monitor the SQL servers a little more than usual. I am mostly concerned about memory and CPU usage. By properly setting our program names in the SQL connection string, I am able to find the offending…
