Composibility » Other http://www.composibility.com IT Solutions should assemble like Lego's. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:25:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Office Humor http://www.composibility.com/2007/07/09/officehumor/ http://www.composibility.com/2007/07/09/officehumor/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:41:47 +0000 travis http://www.composibility.com/2007/07/09/officehumor/ . . . → Read More: Office Humor]]> Cleaning out my inbox this morning and felt a bit inspired to post this one.

Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!!

1. BLAMESTORMING
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2.SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3.ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard .

4.SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.

6.PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.

8.SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

9.STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

10.SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11.XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.

12.IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

15. 404: Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested site could not be located.

16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.

17.OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).

18.WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.

If you like these I did a quick google search and found a site with many more at Office Jargon for the 21st Century

]]> http://www.composibility.com/2007/07/09/officehumor/feed/ 0 Reduce Reuse Recycle http://www.composibility.com/2007/04/27/reduce-reuse-recycle/ http://www.composibility.com/2007/04/27/reduce-reuse-recycle/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:35:16 +0000 travis http://www.composibility.com/2007/04/27/reduce-reuse-recycle/ 2000 bloggers blog. It gives me a break from the normal techie and cms stuff that I review in my rss reader. I recently read a post titled the same as this post. Needless to say my brain started to run thinking wow is that a content management mantra or what. Write more meaningful pieces, allow for other to use... . . . → Read More: Reduce Reuse Recycle]]> I’m an avid reader of the 2000 bloggers blog. It gives me a break from the normal techie and cms stuff that I review in my rss reader. I recently read a post titled the same as this post. Needless to say my brain started to run thinking wow is that a content management mantra or what. Write more meaningful pieces, allow for other to use your content, and when your content is irrelevant archive it. Of course the actual post was about fruit.

Sometimes we implementers of Content Management software take this mantra a little too much to heart. We try and design content solutions that will strictly enforce the Customer to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. When I say strictly I mean we programmatically implement software that enforces the “rules” with immediate actions taking place. For instance I was handed a requirement once that said every piece of content on a web site needs to be review every quarter or face removal from the web site. So as the developer of the system I write code that sends a note to the content manager of the piece that is 3 months after the last time it was modified or reviewed. A week later the same code removes the piece from the web site if the content wasn’t reviewed. For the most part this could be ok but we all know that this rule will execute on something like the contact us page or the legal disclaimer. Oops, my bad, I just coded what you asked for right? Well not really, but this is a poorly analyzed requirement. This is where the solution and project leads need to proof the requirement and make sure that the developers can’t infer requirements or implement risky unrefined requirements. When I proofed requirements in the past I’ve been passed over by others saying well Travis you just need to think a little more high-level. Well sorry I know that requirements like the one mentioned above happen every day and there are real ramifications because of vague or “high-level” requirements going to the implementers of content management software. So beware of vague and unproofed content requirements.

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I don’t know if this is some kind of SEO experiment but its always interesting to click on a picture and see who (or what) pops up. Go ahead and try it below.

]]> http://www.composibility.com/2007/01/25/767/feed/ 1 Blog V.02 http://www.composibility.com/2006/03/22/blogv02/ http://www.composibility.com/2006/03/22/blogv02/#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:14:00 +0000 travis /?p=3 . . . → Read More: Blog V.02]]> Well welcome to the latest version of my blog. Like many version 2 blog’s I have the ambitious goal of updating my blog once or twice a week. I learned through with my last blog that perfect really is good’s evil and I have realized that not all my entries are going to be perfect, relevant maybe, perfect no. So with that concept in place I will post entries that relate to the software areas that I work in. If you didn’t know I’ve usually do software architecture inside of Enterprise Content Management implementations. I find myself working with customers to help them strategize and implement content applications. Whether the content is already managed by an enterprise content application or the customer has a need for some sort of a content management application. I also found that most of my customers are looking for ways to extend their company’s content services. There are some specific best practices and patterns that can be applied when companies are looking to maximize their existing content infrastructure. Inside of that context are the entries that I will post here where Form follows Function.

So with that said the first set of posts that I’m putting together is going to be titled “The plumbers house”. The posts will depict my trials and errors of putting this site together.

Cheers, – Travis

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