While working from home can have it’s advantages, it seems a lot depends on the home office environment and how supportive the family is of the arrangement.

Read more at the story from Compuerworld.com.

Stop Treading Water
by Mary Brandel from Computerworld

http://www.computerworld.com/taxonomy/000/000/000/taxonomy_000000010_index.jsp

January 15, 2007 (Computerworld) — Tips for pulling ahead in your career from Gartner analyst Diane Morello:

Swim or sink. If you’re planning on following a pure technology track, set a goal to be “the most excellent, the most adept and one of the fastest studies out there for moving into new areas of technology,” Morello says. “If you’re not continually refining what you’re doing, you do lose ground.”

Pick the fast lane. Be ruthless about which industries provide the most forward-looking opportunities in your interest area, and be realistic about where the best job options lie. “If I go to the IT-specific job boards, 70% to 80% of the jobs are at service providers,” Morello says.

Practice with winners. Don’t discount how important it is to work with the most dynamic and top-notch people, whether through electronically mediated forums or in person. “By virtue of working with them, you’re expanding and enriching yourself,” Morello says.

“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself”
HarveyS Firestone

Aol has thrown out there a GUI development tool called Boxely. Here is the URL in case your interested.

dev.aol.com/boxely/

Weblog Usability

To have a blog that performs well, there are certain things to keep in mind, and Jakob Nielsen over at Useit.com has come up with a list of the top ten design mistakes.

1. No Author Biographies
2. No Author Photo
3. Nondescript Posting Titles
4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go
5. Classic Hits are Buried
6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
8. Mixing Topics
9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service

The ones I most agree with are the first two. One of the things I do once I realize “hey, I like this blog” is to see who wrote it. Its very frustrating, especially on more personal type blogs, to not know who I am reading.

Check out all the details of the list at useit.com

Posted by David as Blogging: How To at 1:43 PM CDT

Slashdot referred me to an article at  http://www.sitepoint.com/article/blog-software-smackdown-review that discussed various blogging options and software. Wordpress recived a favorable review.

Today is election day. I think I was number 8 in my polling place, and the 2nd signature in the book of registered list of voters from A-M. They didn’t ask for identification, just checked signatures. Also didn’t find it humerous when I asked what we were voting on.

Joe

http://www.navidazimi.com/projects/wp-lists/

Welcome to the WordPress List Manager Plugin (wp-lists). As the name implies, this is a List Manager for WordPress 1.5 which facilitates the management of lists directly from the administrative console. This means you can create a list of anything you want and then add, edit or update that list anyway you please from one centralized location. Any changes to that list are then reflected globally.

Installation Procedures

Listen carefully, if you don’t follow these instructions impeccably, you may destroy the Internet. So, for your sake, mine and all of humanity, let’s go through this together.

1. Download the Latest Available Version
2. Extract the Zip Archive
3. Upload:
4. • wp-lists.php to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder, and
   • edit-lists.php to your /wp-admin/ folder
5. Go to your WordPress Administrative Console
6. Under Options -> Writing, make sure “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” is unchecked
7. Under Plugins, locate the “List Manager” entry and activate it

That’s it. You’re done. To ensure that the plugin has been successfully installed, simply navigate to the Manage interface, where you should see the new entry Lists listed in the submenu.

Example Usage

How do I insert/embed a list inside a post or page?

In a post or page, you can simply add the following code to embed a list. Alternatively, if you do not know the list id number, you can use the “Embed List” button on the quicktags menu. Regardless of your insertion method, you should have something like this:

<!-- 

<ul><list id="23" /></ul>

-->

which would yield something like:

• Google
• A9
• Yahoo

However, you can also use the following optional attributes:

• showlinks: if false, it will not hyperlink the list items
• showchecked: if false, it will not display which items have been crossed off
• odd: the class name given to every other (odd) <li>
• even: the class name given to every other (even) <li>

http://www.andrewsw.com/wiki/moin.cgi/pluginsUsedPlugin

pluginsUsedPlugin

This plugin allows you to easily display a list of the plugins that you use, along with a link to their plugin URLs. Example usage might be the following for a very simple page listing information about the plugins being used:

<!-- <html><body> <?php  require('./wp-blog-header.php'); displayPluginsAsTable(); ?> </body></html> 

-->

Or, on a template page or other place, the sidebar/menu one might have something like the following:

<!-- 

 <li id="plugins">Plugins:         <?php displayPluginsAsList(); ?>  </li> 

-->

So, as you can see, two functions are provided,

• displayPluginsAsTable()
• displayPluginsAsList()

neither take any arguments and both print their output directly.

The code for the plugin can be found at http://www.andrewsw.com/text/pluginsUsedPlugin.txt rename it so it ends in .php and put it in your wp-content/plugins directory. Activate it from within the plugins administration interface that is part of WordPress and you should be good to go to use those functions in your templates.

To use them in the static pages available within WordPress 1.5, you need to have the RunPHP WordPress plugin installed and, for that page, have the “eval” checkbox checked.

Wordpress Plugin: Remind Me
Filed under: Softwares — fritz @ 06:59 PM

Remind Me
made by Mesedilla Studios

Current Version: 1.0 [October 20,2005]

I. OVERVIEW

Remind Me is a Wordpress Plugin that provides you a monthly list of dates to be remembered.

The MySQL Database function came from my old website code

The Flat File function is a modified version of
Countdown 1.1 code
by Owen Winkler
http://www.asymptomatic.net

Thank you for using this plugin.
As this is my first plugin for wordpress, please let me know what you think of it.
I’d like to hear your suggestions.