Dr James Bayley

Creating successful projects

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How to become lucky

Aug 8, 2014
A good comparison of open source RDBMS

Jul 19, 2014
How to review your own performance after 1 year

Jul 16, 2014
What is the right p/e ratio for a tech business?

Jul 7, 2014
Humour: Excel and big data

Jun 29, 2014
How to connect to a Galaxy S3 with adb

Jun 22, 2014
On national destinies

Jun 21, 2014
What Microsoft does not want you to know about OneDrive

Jun 13, 2014
How to enable a discussion group by email

Jun 10, 2014
More graphic design humour

Jun 10, 2014
Writing a WordPress plugin for multisite

Jun 9, 2014
How to convert from keys from .ppk to .openssh

Jun 6, 2014
Humour: Feedback on God’s creation

Jun 6, 2014
Why is it often more difficult to manage a small project than a large one?

May 27, 2014
CSS: How to “sandbox” a DIV – a lesson in futility

May 23, 2014
Is there a standard representation for cricket score data?

May 12, 2014
Simplifying WordPress farm deployments using symbolic links

May 7, 2014
Installing Newrelic server monitoring

May 2, 2014
Installing Newrelic application monitoring on Bitnami Servers

May 1, 2014
Managing MySQL on Bitnami AWS servers

May 1, 2014
How to give an IAM user access to an S3 bucket

Apr 30, 2014
The best format for video in PowerPoint

Apr 27, 2014
Quirky: crowd-sourcing product development

Apr 25, 2014
The future of Windows

Apr 25, 2014
10 year’s old comment during UX testing

Apr 12, 2014
Creating a WordPress farm on a Bitnami server

Apr 4, 2014
Understanding WordPress multisite users

Mar 17, 2014
Microsoft OneDrive is better than Google Docs

Mar 14, 2014
Better than Apple Time Machine but for a PC

Mar 12, 2014
Tiny 64GB usb stick is like another laptop hard drive

Mar 12, 2014
Why I removed Acronis True Image 2014

Mar 10, 2014
How to install a SSL certificate on a Bitnami WordPress server

Mar 5, 2014
How to enforce SSL on a Bitnami WordPress server

Mar 5, 2014
Free SSL Certificates from StartSSL

Mar 5, 2014
The best Acronis backup scheme

Feb 24, 2014
Mobile contacts are a key mobile application battleground

Feb 24, 2014
How to recover from hard drive failure

Feb 20, 2014
Windows Home Server PC Restore does not work

Feb 20, 2014
A great post about tagging WordPress

Feb 11, 2014
A new theme for this WordPress blog

Feb 11, 2014
Nano, an alternative to vi to edit Linux configuration files

Feb 11, 2014
Fix for Windows 7 “Save as” dialogue is very slow

Feb 10, 2014
How to enable the WordPress theme editor in a Bitnami distribution

Feb 2, 2014
Accessing Webmin as http://localhost:10000 through an ssh tunnel

Feb 2, 2014
How to give two developers access to the same Linux directory

Feb 2, 2014
Jan 30, 2014
How to connect as root using WINSCP

Jan 28, 2014
How to install WordPress Multisite on Virtual Box

Jan 24, 2014
GPL: Living with cancer

Jan 17, 2014
Pulling together The Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas

Jan 16, 2014
For twisted minds – Two Girls, One on each knee

Jan 15, 2014
Don’t do checklist for web design

Jan 15, 2014
Books on innovation

Jan 12, 2014
Excellent book on management theories

Jan 9, 2014
The philosophy of project management

Jan 8, 2014
Books about “Requirements Management”

Jan 6, 2014
Underwater Hockey Free Have-a-go

Jan 1, 2014
The night before Christmas — for software engineers

Dec 23, 2013
Test engineer joke

Dec 18, 2013
Hertz Tenerife bad, MBNA good

Dec 16, 2013
Domain parking experiment

Dec 9, 2013
Who cleans the toilets at Valve Corporation?

Sep 27, 2013
Tomcat 7 on Windows is not UTF-8 by default

Sep 9, 2013
How to use Outlook with Gmail

Sep 6, 2013
Keyapt SMS: Type on your PC, send from your phone

Aug 5, 2013
SCRUM, PRINCE2 and ElephantPM

Jul 16, 2013
Skype stops Tomcat 7 working on port 80

Jul 14, 2013
Amazon AWS adds another high availability solution – DNS Failover

Jun 27, 2013
ant install, deploy does not work after upgrading from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 7

Jun 21, 2013
How to create a union of n tables in Excel

Jun 13, 2013
Doctor Who? Voting is fierce

Jun 7, 2013
Choosing Manual Scheduled or Autoscheduled in Microsoft Project

May 24, 2013
Netgear WNR1000v3 router port forwarding bug

May 14, 2013
PyCon tweet proves email is not worst form of communication

Mar 25, 2013
Create the Union of two tables in Excel

Mar 14, 2013
How to add a row number to an Excel table

Mar 14, 2013
A T-SQL SPLIT function

Mar 13, 2013
Opera joins Google/Apple in-crowd with shift to WebKit and Chromium

Feb 14, 2013
SQL Server Import Wizard cannot import fields containing more than 255 characters

Feb 7, 2013
How the Internet has Changed the Spread of Information

Feb 5, 2013
Office 2013 upgrade – red pill or blue pill?

Feb 5, 2013
A review of JavaScript drawing libraries for flowcharts, Gantt charts and timelines

Feb 1, 2013
A work-around for Samsung Galaxy S3 not being a drive on USB

Feb 1, 2013
How to build a 100 m skyscraper in 30 days

Jan 21, 2013
Microsoft’s ARM blunder: 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA • The Register

Jan 20, 2013
Why you should put an SSD in your laptop

Jan 17, 2013
Gartner hype curve for big data

Jan 8, 2013
The future of printed books, Will Gutenburg laugh last

Jan 6, 2013
How to create a calendar table with hourly grain

Jan 4, 2013
2012 in review

Dec 31, 2012
Wickedpedia?

Dec 24, 2012
“Big data” on AWS – Redshift

Dec 19, 2012
AWS tools for Windows PowerShell

Dec 17, 2012
BBC News – Vodka ‘saved’ elephants in Siberian freeze

Dec 14, 2012
Amazon announce data warehouse back end solution

Nov 30, 2012
How to sail faster than the wind

Nov 24, 2012
Trafford Housing Trust wriggle out of Facebook compensation

Nov 18, 2012
Social justice is leaving a tip

Nov 2, 2012
The living wage, even Mrs Thatcher would approve.

Oct 29, 2012
How to survive Windows 8. The official guide

Oct 25, 2012