Random musings in IT

Understanding the way a business works, then giving advice on how it could be improved is the lifebread of consultants. This however needs time, preparation, experience and knowledge, int that exact order. Still there are times, when you just have to improvise all of those. If all goes well, I…

Electronic content management (ECM) is an unavoidable part of running most enterprises, be it small or large. For mid to large enterprises IBM provides a number of tools and technologies to cover all aspects of ECM throughout the document related processes or the document's lifecycle. Even though…

Today I've had the chance to participate in two events related to the project management profession. Even though I haven't got much going on in the field at the moment, I've always been keen on keeping an eye on the PM profession, and it has presented two completely different faces. The first…

Today I created some advanced features for the Mindweb application. I mainly worked on the task management interface. Now the views can be changed using the sidebar. Beside the originally developed tree view,  the task view with different groupings are available,  the same way it's available in…

New version of the Freeplane GTD is released, this version features French translation by Marian Llabrés. The add-on is available here.

There are times I have to write a longer article, document, or prepare a presentation, where I have no idea how I'm going to get my thoughts structured. This is where document outliner tools come handy. My primary goal when creating the Mindweb application was, to create a tool for managing my GTD…

My blog is running on a self-hosted Wordpress instance, and I have an Android phone. I also do some long commutes, so it would be quite sensible, to use the Wordpress for Android for blogging. Better yet, why use my laptop at all just to write an article, when I can simply hook my bluetooth…

My friend from Baconsült has been given the honors to be the judge in the Hungarian chapter of the 1776 Challenge Cup. I went to see, how such a challenge looks like. The occasion was organized by the Kairos society with the 1776 organization, and was hosted in the Logmein headquarters. The…

I am quite behind with the blog posts, planned for these days. This article will serve as a placeholder to keep the ideas that could not get into a proper article. I've been quite busy, working on the Mindweb project. There's been some late nights, I've spent programing. The effort shows pretty…

  I just ventilated some of the frustration about lazy and worthless recruiters in a previous article. To prove a point, today I've received the emblematic call, where the caller committed so many of the annoying mistakes, I was not even annoyed by it, it was amazing! (Sorry about misusing the…