Asking Good Questions

Warning: This blog post is going to be part rant and part educational. Recently I’ve been dealing with a mailing list subscriber that does not understand how to ask good questions on mailing list. He has a habit of posting overly broad questions that, at least in my opinion, demonstrate that he has not tried…

Fix The Problem

This blog post was started a LONG time ago … after moving the blog from my in-house server to an external server, I’ve decided to finish it. This may sound like a no brainer … but I’ve found this bit of advice is sometimes ignored… Fix the problem, not the symptom! I’ve been struggling with…

Understand the problem

I’m kind of annoyed with myself right now. I spent the past two days trying to come up with a solution … when I didn’t really understand the problem I was trying to solve. Now that I understand the problem … I realize that the solution I was creating (which was deceptively simple) was completely…