Adding Fun

I just realized if I am going to be putting new updates often.  They can’t all be about the web, wordpress and twitter.  So I decided to add a category called Fun.  There is a user on twitter that has only been posting for a couple of weeks and he has gotten a ton of followers.  I can mention him here because it’s R-rated because of the language.  However, it is interesting he has picked up over 100 thousand followers in just a couple of weeks.  It’s funny.  I wish I could figure out how to be more funny.  I have a couple of friends that are funny.  And it’s always fun to watch comedians.  It always is just a bit more fun if the story is true.

When my daughter was about 4 years old she wanted a dog.  I don’t really like animals in the house and I was glad that she was terribly allergic to dogs and cats.  Believing is was completely my fault my daughter said to my wife “If dad dies can we get a dog?”  I have always thought that was funny.

I’ll have to bring up some of these funny stories later.

If you thought this was stupid you will get something more serious and business driven tomorrow, but for today a little fun

Adding New Categories to Site

I am going to Focus on Two areas as I post information to this Site.  The primary focus is going to web technologies and how it can help your business make more profit.  If the technology isn’t going to make you more money it really isn’t worth the time to do.

The secondary focus is going to be how to apply motivational pay strategies.  This is really what I am the best at.  However I believe it is going to take five to 10 years to educate enough people to be able to focus on this full time.  One of the keys to keeping Motivational pay strategies effective is proper tracking and web technologies are perfect for that.  Most people don’t have to be educated on web technologies.  They just need help setting it up.

Last night I was talking with my brother Mike and we were talking about focusing on what we are good at and writing about those things.  That is were I got the idea to change my focus on the web.  This site will focus primarily on Webtechonolgies and the dmgsouth.wordpress.com site will focus primarily on the motivational pay strategies.

ready, get set, go ….

New DMGSouth Site Comming Soon

Over the past year I have been getting more and more involved in Social Media. Because of my web tech skill I have decided I need to more fully integrate my site with social media. So that is just what Is going to happen over the next couple of weeks.

If you a not sure what this social media thing is all about I have a link to a cool little video from comoncraft.com

Enjoy this very simple explanation of what it is all about.

Google Wave Sandbox Account

Got Lucky yesterday to get my Google Wave Sandbox Account. I spent a couple of hours last night messing with it. Unfortunately couldn’t play with it much today because of a prior commitment. I can see why they have just opened it up to developers. It’s a little buggy at this point. But I am excited to get in an try things out. I am going to get the embed code going so I can start testing things on websites. I am also going to have to get more into the Java coding so I can write some stuff to help out with scouts.

So much to do and so little time to do it. Pretty much always the case.

Inspiring Leadership Statments

Here is some inspiration from very successful people.

“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”  (Douglas Adams)

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.“  (John Quincy Adams)

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”  (Andrew Carnegie)

“Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.”  (Stephen R. Covey)

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him….But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did it ourselves.”  (Lao Tzu)

“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.“  (Talleyrand)

“A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.”  (Russell H. Ewing)

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.”  (Warren Bennis)

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”  (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

‘The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”  (Theodore Roosevelt)

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”  (Peter F. Drucker)

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”  (Thomas Watson)

‘Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.“  (Groucho Marx)

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”  (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Google Wave, it's going to change the world!

I heard about Google Wave when it was anounced after the I/O conference in Austalia.  I went to the web site and checked it out then.  But the video wasn’t up yet and I didn’t quite understand what they were trying to do.  I just went back and watched the video a couple of days ago, and now I am seeing  what they have developed at Google is truly amazing and revolutionary.  One of the really cool things is how open it is because they know and want people to start to get creative with the uses.  I think google has built a system and has the right philosophy and so it can thrive in the universe.  I already have plans for how I am going to use this At work, with my friends, With the scout troop I work with.  I am really looking forward to getting a chance to take a look.

looking over the communication in my life I spend a lot of time just making sure everyone is understanding.  I think, at least, electronically,  Wave will help us get to the point of understanding faster.  Therefore making communication more efficient.  I know this is going to make my life more productive.

Check it out http://bit.ly/AHgzw

Regular Expressions

for C#/VB.net

System.text.RegularExpressions

Java

java.util.regex