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If you must ask, you’re not doing Scrum. If they were optional, why would you have them at all? If you’re too busy to attend, you’re not a team working on a scrum, you’re an individual fighting on your own. Too many times, early in the formation of a team when I would be unable …

NO Period Stick to your “contract” to perform a certain amount of work in a certain period of time and, as Scrum Master (not the team!), work with senior managers or others to find another way to deal with an “emergency”. In over six years of leading agile projects using Scrum, I have never stopped …

On the 21st of May, 2011, our son, Natthan, graduated from San Diego State University (SDSU) with his Bachelor’s degree.  

I installed RHEL6 and was pleased to see PostgreSQL v8.4.7 packaged with it. However, v9.0 has come out and I need to stay abreast of the latest developments and test my software applications against it. Therefore, I took the following steps to install v9.0.4. STEP 1: Downloaded and installed the RPMS I downloaded the pgdg-redhat-9.0.2.noarch.rpm …

My database development activities center around Oracle 11g and I recently installed the 11.2.0.1.0 x86_64 on a RHEL6 server. I thought I would document the steps I took NOT AS A DEFINITIVE GUIDE but to try to help those, who, like me, often have to search for answers and wonder if they’re on the right …

RHEL6 ships with MySQL 5.1.52, but I do database development and need to test against the latest version. To get to 5.5.11 on my new RHEL6 server, I took the following steps: STEP 1: Remove MySQL 5.1.52 I used the following commands to uninstall MySQL 5.1.52: yum erase mysql yum erase mysql-libs.x86_64 STEP 2: Download …

I recently installed RHEL6 and while I selected the option to use all disk space at the time of installation, I did not customize the partitions. The system has two 1TB drives and after installation, the logical volume of the first drive was partitioned to (ignoring the small swap area): 857.5G for /home 50G for …

The WordPress Firewall plugin notified me of a new attack on my WordPress site today; an attempt to inject a file named “fgiwfi.php” via a “password_forgotten.php” injection. This was quickly followed by another e-mail alerting me to an attack from the same IP using the same forged link on another of my pages, but this …

WordPress has a nice feature that allows you to preview your site in a different theme, but you must click on each individual theme to preview it. There are plugins and even the ?preview_theme= method available as well. But one feature I have not seen yet is the ability to scroll through the various themes …

I love the TinyMCE Advanced Editor plugin for the WordPress Admin functions with posts and pages. So, I was dismayed when I lost its cool functionality recently. I went so far as to deactivate all my plugins, but I still could not get the toolbars to appear in the edit pages again. Today, I took …