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• Disruptive Innovation - the automobile in 1910

  The automobile, still disrupting 100 years later - 2011 Dodge Challenger A concept is disruptive if it challenges the old ways of ...

• Think like a human, not a computer

  In movies, when computers think for us it leads to disaster (think Global Thermal Nuclear War). We often believe putting computers...

• Your site is not special

  I recently read an article in Newsweek (no longer available) in which the writer, David McCullough, as a high school commencement ...

• Successful projects begin with sound solutions

  Whenever I head a project I try to keep user focused. Users may be internal or external to the organization. External users includ...

• Discovering the Presence of Hidden Volumes in TrueCrypt

  I completed my Master of Science in Software Engineering in May of 2011. My final paper was for a computer forensics class in whic...

• Email unsubscribe guilt-trip

  You’ve lost an email subscriber. It’s hard, I know, but don’t take it personally. They felt strong enough to find the unsubscribe ...

• The Sandbox

  Had to place this on one of the development sandboxes I manage: BRING THINGS TO THE SANDBOX BUT DON'T LEAVE IT HERE! The sandbox ...

• Starting Simple: Deconstructing Vegas

  Behind the complex, a simple idea was put in place

• API Presentation at ELUNA 2019, Atlanta, GA

  You don't need to be a developer to understand the potential of Ex Libris APIs. Of the four major API integration projects underta...

• Lead (and Be Led By) a Team of Student Developers (Presentation at GusDay 2023)

  This is based on a presentation I gave at GusDay 2023 held at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, titled “Lead (and be Led ...

• Drag, Drop, Done - Library Help LTI

  Our university campus was moving to a new Learning Management System (LMS) called Canvas. Wanting to make sure we were in from the...

• API Presentation at UMWUG - Upper Midwest User Group Conference

  I gave a presentation at the 2018 UMWUG Conference in Coralville, Iowa, titled "Making APIs work for you: Creating integrations to...