It’s My Photo, But It’s Not Me! The Damage of Impersonation on Social Media [Picture of me from Instagram] I’m a writer, a published book author, and a technologist. As such, I have a web site, and I use various social media channels for my marketing. In the industry, we…

Introduction I’ve been around for a while. In the dark ages, I taught myself how to write video games. It was not pretty, but I got it done, and I learned a lot. Then I leaped games to business applications. Being the studious and observational home-grown developer that I was…

“Life is What Happens When You’re Making Other Plans” (Unknown) In my last article, “Laid Off? Time to Panic?”, I stepped through a very common mental process which happens when faced with a sudden change in a career path. In summary — keep a cool head, adapt, and move forward…

“I’m sorry, but we’re going to have to let you go.” Just the sound of those words, without anticipating it was coming, can be devastating. After almost eight years with the same company, I was not expecting to hear these words. I had made myself invaluable, or so I thought…