Matt Wilson

Implementing Agile from an operations perspective

From wikipedia Agile is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Business Guy: Hey developer, I’d like these five features Dev Guy: Sure.. (works for 2 weeks) Business …

Ditching Windows at Home

I’m ditching Microsoft Windows at home. Considering that I make my living running Web Sites on IIS, most people may this this is a big deal. Get over it. It’s really a matter of practicality. No, I’m not crazy. My …

Which mobile device would you pick for work?

It's pretty cool that my office is giving us a choice with phones / Internet devices. It is a limited choice, but they are all top of the line phones. The choices are: iPhone 3GS / 16GB - AT&T Blackberry Bold 9700 - AT&T Blackberry Tour - Verizon

Apple pulled Voice Central and all other Google Voice apps

Yesterday, Apple pulled all Google Voice iPhone apps from the app store. Riverturn, the maker of Voice Central was contacted by Richard Chipman from Apple. A transcript of the conversation is on the riverturn blog. http://www.riverturn.com/blog/ . Sean Kovacs, the …

Voice Central for iPhone

I am certainly a Google Voice convert. The service is fantastic. I love everything about it. It truely is a virtual assistant. Using it on the PC is easy to do since it’s browser based. But how well does it …

Google Voice = Fantastic

Just got Google Voice. What a fantastic service. It was easy to setup and use. The voice mail transcription works well. Getting a text message of the transcription is very handy. The only “glich” really is that I mainly use …

Reduced iPhone costs?

I had the play-by-play sites up from Macrumorslive.com and appleinsider.com during the Apple WWDC keynote speach. Let me commend Apple on the fantastic innovations. I really liked all of the updates to OS X and the MacBook Pro. It makes …

Why I am switching to Google Apps

I have used Microsoft Outlook for most of my computing life at home as well as at various professional positions. Outlook’s format is very easy to use and using rules to move mail to particular folders works well. This helps …

To Linux or Not to?

With my new infatuation with the iPhone, I am seriously considering getting a mac. Some of my friends swear by them. My first computer was an Apple IIc. (Yes, I know I’m dating my self a little bit). I’ve used …

Five tips for Successful Disaster Recovery Implementations

Disaster Recovery is one the major topics that are coming up in my interviews. I have been implementing DR (short for Disaster Recovery) for most of my career, so below are five tips with concrete examples with implementing Disaster Recover …