Del DeVries : Blog Notes-March 2007

It is probably time that I either install the blog capabilities of PmWiki or WordPress on my server space. But in the meantime, looking at Categories (tags to the rest of the web world) will be a start. Description is at pmwiki.categories

Version Control with Subversion

Excellent post at MineZone Blog this week on subversion for WordPress. Subversion is version control and is typically used by programmers moving between development, test, and production. However, it can also be used with a svn client and command line access to your server to easily update subversion capable software to the most current release (either stable or bleeding edge). The WordPress explanation at Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion is complete, covering initial installation and also converting an existing installation to svn capable. Need to check that the svn code is available on the server (otherwise available at http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html#clients).

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More GtD forms

David Seah is a master of form design and a recent form incorporating an annual calendar, 3 week calendar w/ days, and a project management form for each of the 3 weeks is shown in draft form at http://davidseah.com/archives/2007/01/29/play-guess-the-form/. David has added some extra "art" to this latest form by asking for comments on what the form means to you. Maybe all of the commenters are over-reading this from simply name the form to some sort of deep form analysis, but either way it provides some interesting thoughts on how we organize our time and work.

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Laptop Security

In a short WSJ article, More Firms Ride Wave of Mobile Security, on Tuesday, 2/27, there were 2 interesting data points: # of records involved in computer thefts in the last 2 years and the cost per record for a data breach.

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GtD Project List

In the organization mode and realizing that my project list exists in bits and pieces in several different places. Consolidation time.

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Security Tools

Profiling a web server OS - NetCraft Web Server Query - reports a site's operating system, web server, and netblock owner and a graphical view of the time since last reboot for each of the computers serving the site. When first visited, no uptime data is available, but is captured over subsequent days. My initial sites of interest are as follows (check back on Friday 3/10):
- http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=devriesonline.net
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Strategic IT articles in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review (within the past year)

It is time to update some of my teaching materials on strategic IT. These 2 journals are a great place to start. The Executive Summaries in HBR are excellent tools to quickly scan "in detail" the contents of an issue. EBSCO Research database search string =

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HBR - self-management and strategy

Self Management

What to Ask the Person in the Mirror., By: Kaplan, Robert S., Harvard Business Review, Jan2007, Vol. 85, Issue 1 THE TESTS OF A LEADER. There comes a point in your career when the best way to figure out how you're doing is to step back and ask yourself a few questions. Having all the answers is less important than knowing what to ask.

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Sloan Management articles

Measurement

The 7 Deadly Sins of Performance Measurement and How to Avoid Them, Michael Hammer, Sloan Management Review, Spring 2007

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How Students Develop Online Learning Skills

Roper, Alan R. How Students Develop Online Learning Skills, EDUCAUSE Quarterly 30(1)(2007) http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm07/eqm07110.asp

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