Dec 22
A couple of days ago I wrote a post on my blog about implementing a backup strategy for archiving the website files and database related to this blog. Although I was happy with the result and they do work well I was still a bit concerned because the files were still on the server which meant I had to manually retrieve them off the server to be sure of having a suitable backup should something happen to the server.
I decided to try out Amazon S3 which allows you to store files in “buckets” located in America and Ireland. Authentication is used to secure your data and it uses standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces to allow developers the ability to hook on to the service. They operate a “Pay For What You Use” pricing model of $0.15 a month per GB hosted which is about £0.09 a month. Currently all data transfer is free until 30th June 2010 but even after then it is only $0.10 a month per GB which is about £0.06 a month. The prices change after 50TB of data is being hosted but that is unlikely at present. If this trial is successful then I intend to roll it out across my other websites.
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Dec 19
I have used Mozilla Firefox for many years now when I have been developing websites and also for personal use too. It may not be the fastest browser around but I am willing to sacrifice speed for usability in this case as the add-ons available for Firefox are some of the best around. I am going to go through some of them and why I use them and hopefully help someone else to discover a useful add-on they might not have heard of before.
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Dec 18
PRINCE2 is a process driven project management framework that has 40 different activities organised into seven processes.
These processes are:
- Starting up a project
- Initiating a project
- Directing a project
- Controlling a stage
- Managing stage boundaries
- Closing a project
- Managing product delivery
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Dec 15
I have been very complacent about implementing a backup strategy for my blog files but after reading about codinghorror.com and haacked.com amongst others recently falling foul to a hardware failure on the server that hosted their blogs and the struggles they had to try and retrieve their content again I realised that something needed to be done. In fact Phil Haack sums it up quite nicely in this tweet.
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Dec 08
First thing I did was downloaded the latest PRINCE2 2009 Process Model diagram which is available in PDF on the PRINCE2 website.
Next I loaded up Microsoft Project 2010 and entered the high level task I am going to use which in this case is the ‘Starting up a project’ stage.
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Dec 05
If you are a project manager dealing with any size of project then you will more than likely have come across Microsoft Project and quite possibly use it on a regular basis.
Recently Microsoft announced on their Project Team blog that the public beta of Project 2010 was available for download. They have also produced a website where they call this version of Project the most significant release in a decade.
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