Managing Product Development » blog http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Tue, 22 May 2012 13:23:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Malware is Gone and All is Well http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2012/05/malware-is-gone-and-all-is-well.html http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2012/05/malware-is-gone-and-all-is-well.html#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 13:23:38 +0000 Johanna http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=11437 Continue reading →]]> I’ve had a confusing couple of weeks. First, a nice gentleman who was considering my job search book (in beta) told me he was seeing potential virus notifications on Hiring Technical People. Well, that seemed strange. But, then another colleague who’d participated in my Peer Project Portfolio Coaching also saw the notifications. With two PC-running people seeing them, I knew I had a problem.

I use a Mac, and don’t see these things, so I asked my web master for help. He suggested we ask my ISP. A day or so later, Google decided I was a malware site. Oh boy, that was a huge problem.

My ISP finally located the problem several days later, and discovered they had a backup from several weeks ago that did not have the problem. My backups only run for a couple of weeks at a time, not close to a month. Guess I will have to revisit that strategy.

Yesterday after my site and blogs were restored, and Google reviewed my site, the malware notifications were gone. Happy days!

You can safely surf to my site and my blogs again. (You actually could before. But who am I to argue with Google?)

The one nice thing about this is, I know who my friends are. My friends emailed me. You posted on Twitter to make sure I knew. This was a different kind of collaboration, but a collaboration nonetheless. Thank you. And now, all is well.

]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2012/05/malware-is-gone-and-all-is-well.html/feed 0 Pragmatic Manager Posted & Update Site http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2011/12/pragmatic-manager-posted-update-site.html http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2011/12/pragmatic-manager-posted-update-site.html#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:28:15 +0000 Johanna http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=11033 Continue reading →]]> I have finally posted my most recent email newsletter, Three Myths and Three Tips. It took a while because I was converting my site to WordPress and I did not want to maintain the site in two places.

I have finally transitioned fully to WordPress. What a relief. All my old articles are finally posted. I have tagged back to somewhere in 2006. I’ll keep tagging as I get around to it.

What do you think? I’d love your feedback.

]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2011/12/pragmatic-manager-posted-update-site.html/feed 0 Looking for Advice on Article Tagging http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2011/12/looking-for-advice-on-article-tagging.html http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2011/12/looking-for-advice-on-article-tagging.html#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:38:13 +0000 Johanna http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=11031 Continue reading →]]> I’m at the end of redesigning my website. I’m posting and tagging my articles now. These are the articles from several years ago I didn’t get around to posting because it was too much of a pain to do in Dreamweaver. Yes, I’ve transitioned to WordPress site. I’m planning to unveil it next week.

I have a question for you, my loyal readers. Aside from typical tags, such as “project management,” I can also tag my articles with the outlet in which they were published. Is that helpful to you? Please comment and advise me. Thank you.

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Online MBA Rankings

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]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2009/01/happy-new-year.html/feed 0 I’m # 30 on Jurgen’s List http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/09/im-30-on-jurgens-list.html http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/09/im-30-on-jurgens-list.html#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:02:47 +0000 Johanna http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8506 Continue reading →]]> I don’t normally pay much attention to these kinds of things, but what the heck, this will give Jurgen a link back.

Jurgen has collated the Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers (Q3 2008). I have no idea if he will continue to do this quarter after quarter (!). I’m glad that other people find this blog valuable. Thank you, dear readers, for reading and commenting.

The good thing about this list is that now I have more blogs to consider reading. That’s also the bad thing :-)

]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/09/im-30-on-jurgens-list.html/feed 2 Need Help with BackUpWordPress http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/08/need-help-with-backupwordpress.html http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/08/need-help-with-backupwordpress.html#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:05:00 +0000 Johanna http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8475 Continue reading →]]> I’ve been using BackUpWordPress to backup my blogs. I successfully upgraded Hiring Technical People to a newer version of WP and of BackUpWordPress. I upgraded this blog, Managing Product Development, to the newer version of WP, but now my newer version of BackUpWordPress is not working. I’m pretty sure it’s all about file permissions.

If you have experience with this and insight, please email me, jr at jrothman dot com. I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong and want to keep backing up! Thanks.

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]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/02/ignore-this-post.html/feed 2 Blog changes http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2007/10/blog-changes.html http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2007/10/blog-changes.html#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:04:06 +0000 Johanna http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2007/10/blog-changes.html Continue reading →]]> In the past couple of weeks, I’ve migrated from Blogger to WordPress (with the excellent help of Kim Black). I expect you can still read the blog and that the feeds are still coming through. If you’d like to update to the new addresses, here they are:

Managing Product Development is now at http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/

The feed is at http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/feed

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