Working online

 

I have working mostly online for sometime now. I use a combination of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Sheets, ProjectPath, Flickr, Mozy Online Backup, and WordPress. However, the paranoid in me still keeps a local copy of all my documents on home built NAS.

Cyber Minimalist: How to Work Almost Completely Online | zen habitsI was tired of emailing myself files between home and work computers, or uploading files to web storage and syncing them between computers, or loading them onto flash drives. I’d forget where a file was, I’d spend a lot of time transferring files and organizing things, my two computers were never completely in sync, and it was just too complicated for a minimalist like myself.Enter online apps, and my newfound simplicity. 

 

Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership

 

James McGovern is an Enterprise Architect at The Hartford, whose focus is on the human aspects of technology around open source, software security, enterprise architecture and agile software development.

Enterprise Architecture: Thought LeadershipThe funny thing is that everyone has an opinion on what an IT professional is nowadays. Some will even argue what the word professional means. One could say that a professional is someone who gets paid. I guess this makes the baristas at Starbucks or the high school dropout who flips burgers professionals which makes the word professional meaningless.