Not all that long ago I put out ISBN-13 978-0-9770866-6-5 “The Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture”. Some of you may remember that it won a 2008 Best Book Award from USA Book News. Apparently, not enough of you have read it because we are still seeing the standard criminal enterprises pushing “Cloud Computing” and now they are even trying to push it to “the masses” since they want the government to … In IT, When Something is Going to Fail Spectacularly, We Call it a CloudRead more
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Automatic Concordance File Creation
Wanna be technical writers search in vain for this pink Unicorn. You see, the ugliest part about writing a technical book is creation of the index. Normally this involves a lengthy reading process where you select each word with the mouse and do a bunch of manual clicking and keying to create some hidden codes in the document file. These hidden codes will then be processed when the users chooses to “create index” and, in … Automatic Concordance File CreationRead more
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Billing Rate vs. Effective Rate
This question just keeps coming up. In fact, just today I had a “ discussion” about it with a pimp who had no concept, he was just trying to get someone to take a technical writing contract at way below market rate. What shocks and appauls me is the number of supposed consultants who do not understand this concept. Effective Rate has nothing to do with “cost of living.” When you used the formula I … Billing Rate vs. Effective RateRead more
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Did You Ever Wonder Why Billing Rates in Florida are Criminally Low?
No, it’s not due the massive “import/export” business running through Florida, it’s Senior Abuse. That and the fact that the FBI hasn’t bother putting anyone in prison for violating the DOL prevailing wage law which went into effect with the H1-B reforms. You know, the laws that made it a federal crime to pay an H1-B less than the DOL prevailing wage and made it an even bigger federal crime to hire an H1-B when … Did You Ever Wonder Why Billing Rates in Florida are Criminally Low?Read more
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Why Not Split
Things get stuck in my head and I cannot get them out. This is how geeks end up surfing the Web from a laptop in bed at 2AM, and they aren’t looking for porn. What started this bizarre mental journey was a bit of research on the current state of splitting H2O into Hydrogen and Oxygen via various means. For a change there was a pretty good writeup on Wikipedia. It appears electrolysis works and … Why Not SplitRead more