Danny Wahlquist's Blogs

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The birth of the U.S. Marine Corps
"Today, President Bush will dedicate the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. The $80-million, 200,000-square-foot museum has been in the works for more than a decade and its long-awaited opening is something to celebrate. Happy Birthday, Marines!" from Danny Wahlquist's LiveJournal Blogging Blog, November 10, 2006

President Lyndon Johnson Quote
"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America." -Lyndon B. Johnson from Danny Wahlquist's Xanga Web Blog, November 9, 2006

Leader's Insight: When Leaders Implode
"Perhaps inability to tell the full truth is a sign that one is actually lying to himself and cannot face the full truth of the behavior in his own soul." from Danny Wahlquist's AOL Blog, November 8, 2006

Seth's Blog: Clarifications
"In Small Is the New Big, I'm not saying that only small companies will thrive moving forward. Instead, I'm saying that any organization that acts small has an advantage over those that insist on acting big, regardless of size." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot Mobile Blog, November 1, 2006

CLUEFUL BINGO
Customerbingo

from Danny Wahlquist's WordPress Blog, October 5, 2006

Look me in the eye
"This is the giant advantage of the small. Small organizations have the privilege of looking their customers in the eye. Small doesn't necessarily mean small in numbers. It's an attitude. Does your organization require a form to get something done, or does one human choose to interact with another? Does bad news come in the form of memos that obfuscate the truth, or is it delivered face to face?" from Danny Wahlquist's Bloglines News Blog, September 21, 2006

Managing Product Development: Teaching Moments Occur Less Often Than We Think
"So as you practice your coaching, don't be afraid to go meta, and ask questions that help the other person generate alternatives and evaluate those alternatives. Be wary of giving advice as soon as you hear the problem --it's likely that the problem being explained is not the real problem. If necessary, teach. But don't use teaching as your first choice. The other person likely has the key to the solution inside him or her --and it's almost always different from what you suggest." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, September 21, 2006

My great grandfather, William A. Nelson Sr. was born about 1880, and died before 1920.
My great grandfather, William A. Nelson Sr. was born about 1880 in Mississippi, and died Bef. 1920. He married Jessie Blanche Brown 29 Mar 1908 in Lonoke, AR, daughter of William Brown. She was born Aug 1890 in Missouri, and died about 1974 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.
In the 1910 census, William A Nelson(31) lived with his wife Blanche Nelson (19) in Gum Woods, Lonoke County, Ar (census date 4-19-1910)
William A Nelson age 31 Born Ark Father born Miss Mother born Miss worked in Ice Plant
Blanche Nelson age 19 Born Mo Father born Ky Mother born Mo.
Wm. A. Nelson (prob Jr) age 6 mo Born Ark Fa born Miss.
from Danny Wahlquist's Yahoo 360 Genealogy Blog, September 21, 2006

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
"That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God, and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." --Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 from Danny Wahlquist's myspace Christian Blog, September 21, 2006

iChurch: All We Like Sheep - Is our insistence on choices leading us astray?
"Most teenagers hold this self-centered perception of God because it is the faith most American adults have as well. This god of consumerism shows no resemblance to the Consuming Fire described in Scripture. People may say they believe in Jesus, but the archaic Lord, who calls forth sacrifice, promises suffering in this life, and demands obedience for his glory, the one Barth described as "wholly other" is not what they have in mind. They're thinking of the Jesus that adorns t-shirts and SUV tailgates." from Danny Wahlquist's Windows Live™ Spaces Christian Blog, September 20, 2006

DocBook XSL 1.71.0 released
The is mainly a bug-fix release, but it includes a few feature changes. from Danny Wahlquist's Mindsay Docbook Blog, September 14, 2006

Ronald Reagan Quote
America was founded by people who believed that God was their rock of safety. He is ours. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side. Ronald Reagan from Danny Wahlquist's Blogsome Blog, September 14, 2006

The DNA of Relationships by Gary Smalley
I thoroughly enjoyed the book and the many examples included. The DNA of Relationships is
1. You are made for relationships.
2. You are made with the capacity to choose.
3. You are made to take responsibility for yourself.
Each of these is obvious, but we need to be constantly reminded. I particularly enjoyed his discussions on the fear dance. from Danny Wahlquist's BlogSpirit Christian Blog, August 18, 2006

Why Men Hate Going to Church by David Murrow
Although the author tends to overstate things at times, I found this book to be very thought-provoking. Some of my favorite nuggets: Instead of discipling people, we teach them. Howard Hendrick's quote on pillars and caterpillars. After years of safe, practical decisions, a church begins to decline. Make men think! Like toddlers, men want to do it themselves. Shift from learning about God to having adventures with God. We are changed by service, not sermons. Deepest relationships are formed though suffering. from Danny Wahlquist's ebay Blog, August 18, 2006

Give users a Hollywood ending
"So, endings are crucial. They're what sticks. But why, then, are there so many examples of bad (or at least wimpy) endings? What do YOU think?" from Danny Wahlquist's Xanga Web Blog, August 17, 2006

Did software developers ever learn their ABC's?
"I mean, if you asked any random English-speaking person if they had an ordered list of characters whether they would expect all of the following letters comes before B: They would say of course. Even if they don't use any of these letters themselves, they all seem kind of A-ish, if you know what I mean. They would be shocked if you told them that any of these letters came after B, let alone if you told them that all of them come way after Z." from Danny Wahlquist's Multiply Localization Blog, August 16, 2006

Cool Live Writer Features
"WYSIWYG editing - Live Writer downloads your blog's HTML and CSS so that it can render your blog WYSIWYG style. This is particularly useful when inserting images, graphs, maps, or other objects.
Image Publishing - Live Writer makes it easy to insert images from your hard disk or from the web, modify size, set text wrapping options, apply borders, and other graphic effects. Writer makes it easy to insert a thumbnail and link it to a larger image.
Maps - Live Writer allows you to insert a Windows Live Local map directly into a post. Writer can customized the map to show different views and automatically links to a larger view of the map on the Windows Live Local site.
Plug-ins - The Windows Live Writer SDK allows developers to extend the capabilities of Writer to publish additional content types and utilities. I am sure lots of developers will come up with great plug-ins and add-ons.
Compatibility - Of course Windows Live Writer works with MSN Spaces, but it also works seamlessly with TypePad which I use for this blog. In addition LW supports WordPress, Live Journal, Movable Type, Community Server, Blogger, Radio Userland, and a bunch of others." from Danny Wahlquist's WordPress Blog, August 16, 2006

The Econ 101 Management Method
"Management, in general, needs to set up the system so that people can get things done, it needs to avoid displacing intrinsic motivation with extrinsic motivation, and it won't get very far using fear and barking out specific orders. Management, in general, needs to set up the system so that people can get things done, it needs to avoid displacing intrinsic motivation with extrinsic motivation, and it won't get very far using fear and barking out specific orders." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, August 16, 2006

The Identity Management Method
"To be an Identity Method manager, you have to summon all the social skills you have to make your employees identify with the goals of the organization, so that they are highly motivated, then you need to give them the information they need to steer in the right direction. To be an Identity Method manager, you have to summon all the social skills you have to make your employees identify with the goals of the organization, so that they are highly motivated, then you need to give them the information they need to steer in the right direction." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot Mobile Blog, August 16, 2006

My Prediction Still Stands
"Apparently yesterday Sun announced a roadmap for their eventual open sourcing of Java. They've set a goal of having both Standard Edition (SE) and Micro Edition (ME) open source by the end of this year. In my mind, it is really good news that they have committed to making ME open. AFAIK, that had previously been ambiguous." from Danny Wahlquist's Bloglines News Blog, August 16, 2006

Big monitors are the easiest way to increase white-collar productivity
"Big monitors are the easiest way to increase white-collar productivity, and anyone who makes at least $50,000 per year ought to have at least 1600x1200 screen resolution. A flat-panel display with this resolution currently costs less than $500. So, as long as the bigger display increases productivity by at least 0.5%, you'll recover the investment in less than a year. (The typical corporate overhead doubles the company's per-employee cost; always remember to use loaded cost, not take-home salary, in any productivity calculation.)". from Danny Wahlquist's LiveJournal Blogging Blog, August 16, 2006

Harry S. Truman Quote
"We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed. These are the things that give meaning to our lives, and which we acknowledge to be greater than ourselves. This is our cause: peace, freedom, justice. We will pursue this cause with determination and humility, asking divine guidance that in all we do we may follow the will of God. May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage." - Harry S. Truman from Danny Wahlquist's AOL Blog, August 14, 2006

George Washington Prayer
"I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for brethren who have served in the field" - George Washington from Danny Wahlquist's myspace Christian Blog, August 4, 2006

The Manufacturer.com - US manufacturers bully on global, laggards on localization
"Research and development historically is one of the most significant factors in helping companies achieve success in emerging markets. Almost half (49 percent) of the companies that sell differentiated products in different markets said they conduct R&D locally. These executives said cited 'better understanding of the local market,' 'faster time to market' and 'lower R&D costs' as the top reasons for conducting R&D in emerging markets." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, August 2, 2006

William Howard Taft, in an address to a missionary gathering in 1908
"No man can study the movement of modern civilization from an impartial standpoint and not realize that Christianity and the spread of Christianity are the basis of hope of modern civilization in the growth of popular self-government. The spirit of Christianity is pure democracy. It is equality of man before God-the equality of man before the law, which is, as I understand it, the most God-like manifestation that man has been able to make." from Danny Wahlquist's Windows Live™ Spaces Christian Blog, August 2, 2006

The Church of the Girly-Man, Ya!
"The title of this post should be said with an Austrian accent while flexing one's biceps." from Danny Wahlquist's Xanga Web Blog, August 1, 2006

"I Blog ESV"
"In honor of Tim Challies' 1,000th consecutive day of blogging, we offer the following button he created for you to use on your site:"

from Danny Wahlquist's Blogsome Blog, August 1, 2006

President Bush on the dignity of human life
"In this new era, our challenge is to harness the power of science to ease human suffering without sanctioning the practices that violate the dignity of human life," Bush said in the East Room of the White House after vetoing the measure. from Danny Wahlquist's BlogSpirit Christian Blog, August 1, 2006

AX Localization Summary
There are two aspects to localizing your Niagara system. Lexicon files provide localization by module and you can place localized values directly in the database. from Danny Wahlquist's Jroller Localization Blog, July 31, 2006

AX Fonts
Fonts used in the NiagaraAX are defined in the lexicon file in the appropriate module. For example, the bajaui module defines the following fonts:

palladium.font.plain.normal=11pt Tahoma
palladium.font.plain.bold=bold 11pt Tahoma
palladium.font.large.normal=16pt Arial
palladium.font.large.bold=bold 16pt Arial
palladium.font.fixed.normal=12pt monospaced
palladium.font.fixed.bold=bold 12pt monospaced

The Arial and Tahoma fonts provide attractive rendering of many languages, but since Arial and Tahoma do not support all character sets, you can set the fonts to logical fonts and allow the Java VM to find the best fonts for the characters.

palladium.font.large.bold=bold 16pt dialog
palladium.font.large.normal=16pt dialog
palladium.font.plain.bold=bold 11pt dialog
palladium.font.plain.normal=11pt dialog

Fonts are also defined in the chart, help, html, kitPx, pdf, weather and wiresheet modules. from Danny Wahlquist's Multiply Localization Blog, July 31, 2006

Marketers and money
"First rule: great product development and marketing almost always comes from organizations that don't have enough money. Having less money keeps you from trying to buy your way out of trouble. Second rule: learning to live with less money means you will develop skills and resources instead of buying them. And it means that when you have less money (again), you'll be prepared. Third rule: When you need money for something specific, go get it. But just for that. With good terms. As soon as you spend money to protect your money or leverage your money or account for your money or send a message about your money, the money is not only wasted, it hurts you." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot Mobile Blog, July 28, 2006

Make your blog popular - how to increase traffic
"I would add the following advice for blog writers.
Focus on a subject area that you know well. Provide insight, experience, and real life lessons learned.
Write interesting stuff that is balanced, thought provoking, controversial, and if possible, funny and surprising.
Become an expert in one area. Act as a filter or editor to find only the best stories that you and your readers are interested in.
Summarize. Be concise and clear.
Participate in the conversation. Comment on other blogs and leave a link. Talkback in response to news stories. Link to them." from Danny Wahlquist's Bloglines News Blog, July 28, 2006

Norm Walsh provides DocBook V5.0b7
Norm Walsh provides DocBook V5.0b7 at http://norman.walsh.name/2006/07/28/docbook50b7. "This is the seventh test release of DocBook V5.0." from Danny Wahlquist's Mindsay Docbook Blog, July 28, 2006

AlwaysOn: Open source and patent trolls
"MySQL CEO Marten Mickos said: 'There is no technical argument for keeping code closed. In five or ten years there will be a way to make money and keep every single line of code open.'" from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, July 26, 2006

My Localization Blog on Niagara-Central is up!
My localization blog (http://www.niagara-central.com/ord?portal:/blog/Blog/3) on Niagara Central (http://www.niagara-central.com/ord?portal:/home) is up! from Danny Wahlquist's Jroller Localization Blog, July 26, 2006

Bureacracy Termites: Blogs, Wiki's, and Information Markets
"Despite much talk about new organization forms, and networks, most profit making organizations have more in common with the Roman Army than any new form of self organized, self directed network of value. Many organizations I visit have traditional bureaucratic mechanisms for command and control, and you hear executives recite ancient verities like, 'What gets measured gets managed' and 'Ideas are easy; execution is hard' and 'Great implementation is more important that great strategy'. There are many reasons that I think these observations are, at best, half right, but that is a topic for another day. I suggest that most large organizations are gigantic bureaucracies - with rules and roles, and often successful ones at that. They don't call themselves bureaucracies for that French word went out of fashion well before the proponents of Freedom Fries began their Franco-phobia. Yet, most organizations look a lot like the traditional 'M-form' hierarchy which was pioneered by DuPont, Sears, and GM, as the brilliant business historian Al Chandler pointed out so long ago." from Danny Wahlquist's WordPress Blog, July 24, 2006

My great great grandfather, Matthew Newton Garnett was born 22 Dec 1830 in TN and died 07 Dec 1906
"He married SARAH ELIZABETH BORUM 20 Apr 1856 in Franklin, TN, USA, daughter of WILLIAM BORUM and ROZINAH HOLLAND. She was born 21 Apr 1841 in Hillsboro, Lawrence, AL, USA, and died 19 Feb 1917 in Hillsboro, Lawrence, AL, USA." from Danny Wahlquist's Yahoo 360 Genealogy Blog, July 18, 2006

Abraham Lincoln: The Man and His Faith by G. Frederick Owen
from Danny Wahlquist's ebay Blog, July 14, 2006

Billy & Ruth Graham quote from Abraham Lincoln, The Man and His Faith by G. Frederick Owen
"Lincoln's faith caused him to see that law and constitutional government are a great gift from God. His sense of justice made him know that no man was wise enough or good enough to be the master and owner of another. The conviction that the union must be preserved and that slaves must be freed laid upon him a simple but terrible responsibility. He believed that the task of saving freedom under God was the purpose for which God had made him an instrument in His 'Almighty hand for His almost chosen people'." from Danny Wahlquist's myspace Christian Blog, July 14, 2006

Behind the Glass Curtain
"Corin Anderson does not work like most of the world: his office is a glass tent, which he shares with two other people. His desk hides behind a complex Rube Goldberg-esque maze, built by Anderson out of a toy called the Chaos Tower, a sort of theme park for marbles. Each day he sits in the midst of figurines, Legos, and stuffed animals, eyes fixed on his computer screen and earphones strapped on, for hours at a stretch. When he wants a snack, he walks to the fully stocked micro-kitchen, maybe breaking open a bag of organic potato chips or grabbing a handful of trail mix. Twenty percent of the time-with his employer's full approval-he works on projects of his own devising that are only tangentially related to his job. And strangest of all, come nightfall he often has no desire to go home, preferring to get dinner, gratis, in one of the employee cafes, followed by a few hours playing a strategic card game with some colleagues in a small meeting room." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, July 13, 2006

The Niagara Blog is now online!
The Niagara Blog is now online at http://www.niagara-central.com/ord?portal:/blog. from Danny Wahlquist's LiveJournal Blogging Blog, July 13, 2006

Localization Tools in AX
"In R2, many of our partners sent translated property files to me to convert them for use with the Niagara Framework. In AX, we have developed a Lexicon Editor to assist in localizing properties so that you can do this independently. We also enhanced Java Input Method support in AX. Are you using these tools? Are they effective or what could we do to improve them?" from Danny Wahlquist's Jroller Localization Blog, July 13, 2006

AX file encoding requirements
"For the first post, let's discuss file encoding requirements in AX. AX requires files to use UTF-8 encoding. European languages like Albanian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish sometimes use characters in the upper range of ISO-8859-1 that are not ASCII and therefore not represented the same in UTF-8." from Danny Wahlquist's Multiply Localization Blog, July 13, 2006

I am a technical writer, and I am using FOSS
"At MySQL, where I am a member of the documentation team, we use DocBook XML to build the documentation that you see on the website, or that's available through the PDFs that can be downloaded. In fact, you can even download the XML source we use." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot Mobile Blog, July 6, 2006

Deep in the Docs by Martin Brown
"All MySQL documentation, even the manual pages, internal help tables, and all of the various formats we generate, come from a single source using the standard DocBook XML format. Every destination format but one (CHM) are then built using open source tools. Using a single source for all of this information is obviously a massive benefit, but it is not entirely without its own problems. DocBook XML is great, but there are certain areas where we have had to tweak the format and work around bugs. When it comes to outputting information in specific formats, there are even more issues to consider." from Danny Wahlquist's Mindsay Docbook Blog, July 6, 2006

We're only as agile as our process
"Communication is the lifeblood of an XP team. Between developers, between the customer, between teams. Unfortunately, it seems that in a world of cover-your-butt, we are happily willing to trade communication for bureaucracy and policies and paperwork. Hopefully we can have an impact on that before it becomes really bad." from Danny Wahlquist's AOL Blog, July 6, 2006

Selected from "The Best of the Best"
These are my selections from About's "The Best of the Best" from Danny Wahlquist's Xanga Web Blog, July 6, 2006

Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords
"You don't need to remember 100 passwords if you have 1 rule set for generating them. One way to generate unique passwords is to choose a base password and then apply a rule that mashes in some form of the service name with it. For example, you may use your base password with the first two consonants and the first two vowels of the service name. Say your base password is "asdf." (See how easy those keys are to type?). Then your password for Yahoo would be ASDFYHAO, and your password for eBay would be ASDFBYEA." from Danny Wahlquist's Bloglines News Blog, July 5, 2006

Life at Eclipse: Eclipse Callisto Installed!
"I just grabbed the Eclipse SDK 3.2 and every Eclipse plug-in included in Callisto in about 40 minutes from home. And the process was smooth and obvious." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, July 1, 2006

What Belongs in Your Safe Deposit Box?
"PERSONAL DOCUMENTATION, REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY, FINANCIAL/BUSINESS" from Danny Wahlquist's Blogsome Blog, June 27, 2006

James Madison Quote
"Belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the World and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources. - James Madison" from Danny Wahlquist's BlogSpirit Christian Blog, June 26, 2006

Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium : MSDN Wiki now open for comments...
"MSDN Wiki allows comments to be added to msdn topics. I just added one to the main page for the Regex class." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, June 21, 2006

Slow Leadership: Time for Innovation
"To spark innovation, slow down, find the point of balance between need for results and space to think, and hold things there long enough to allow minds to work freely. Above all, reduce the pressure and level of distractions. No one can follow a creative idea and deal with constant phone calls, e-mails, demands for information and threats for not 'meeting the numbers' at the same time. It's a plain choice: more innovation or longer hours and greater short-term output. You cannot have both." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot Mobile Blog, June 21, 2006

SEO: Passive vs. Active
"ACTIVE SEO is the act of going outside of your site to build other sites (blogs, Squidoo lenses, delicious tags) or influence other sites (links and directories) to point to you. Not just you doing it, of course, but your readers and fans and employees as well." from Danny Wahlquist's Bloglines News Blog, June 21, 2006

George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
from Danny Wahlquist's MSN Christian Blog, June 21, 2006

Our Mother Is Gone for Paul Wahlquist, August 7, 1946
"The mother of this editor, after a painful and lingering illness of 65 weeks' duration, six weeks of the time in an Oklahoma City hospital, has passed away at her home in Mammoth Springs." from Danny Wahlquist's WordPress Blog, June 17, 2006

Thoughts Of Happy Days by William HV Wahlquist
"Thoughts Of Happy Days In Memory of My Wife September, 1937, West Helena, Ark." from Danny Wahlquist's Yahoo 360 Genealogy Blog, June 17, 2006

Universal Principles of Design
100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design from Danny Wahlquist's ebay Blog, June 15, 2006

Abraham Lincoln Quote
"I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution , and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, His almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle." - Abraham Lincoln from Danny Wahlquist's myspace Christian Blog, June 15, 2006

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - On Ray Ozzie's TechEd 2006 Keynote
"I don't believe that Web applications will or should replace desktop applications. On the flip side, I think that desktop applications that don't harness the power of the network (the Web or the intranet) will begin to look archaic in a few years." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, June 14, 2006

Intuition by Dan Russell
"As interface designers we often achieve our greatest successes when the interface disappears, and getting to that point is what makes us professionals at this game ? our willingness to go beyond our personal intuitions and see what really works for our target audience. Great user interfaces are ultimately about creating something that?s ego-less, something that works well for people who are not you and not just the same as you." from Danny Wahlquist's Jroller Localization Blog, June 14, 2006

Early History of the Wahlquist Family
"Nelson Hawkins Wahlquist was born in Stockholm, Sweden, February 15, 1827 to Joseph and Martha (either Nelson or Hawkins). He was the younger of two sons. Nelson Hawkins was trained to be a tailor. It was the custom in his country for a person to assume the name of the Master under whom he studied. That is the reason he had a different name from his parents. He said that he used his first name with his family name for his given name. We had thought his family name was Hawkins but after studying the two names, we learned that Nelson is a Swedish name and that Hawkins is English. Hence, we think his parents name was Nelson." from Danny Wahlquist's Yahoo 360 Genealogy Blog, June 14, 2006

Take proactive charge of your reputation!
"Lesson: The Internet has made a permanent record of all media since the mid-90s. The Blogosphere now makes a permanent and highly searchable vehicle for all commentary since roughly 2003. Research it, respond to it, and take proactive charge of your reputation. Don't let others write the history books without sizeable input from those who lived it." from Danny Wahlquist's LiveJournal Blogging Blog, June 12, 2006

ideas are just a multiplier of execution - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
"It's so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an NDA to tell me the simplest idea.) To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot Mobile Blog, June 12, 2006

Working Here is Like Working at a Startup. Not.
"Unless your team can guarantee folks a huge chunk of change if your product is successful then working there is not like working at a startup. There are lots of ways to describe how cool your workplace is without resorting to the flawed comparison to working at a startup." from Danny Wahlquist's LiveJournal Blogging Blog, June 7, 2006

Good Interface Design = Money
"More often than not, design is the odd man out of the software engineering process. A business analyst who took a print design course in college might throw together some ideas that wind up becoming a product, or a coder will mockup a rough prototype to display functionality which never gets changed before the shipping date. A laissez-faire attitude toward design usually results in sub par software and a huge reservoir of uncollected profits." from Danny Wahlquist's WordPress Blog, June 7, 2006

Google's Design-Driven Enthusiasm
"Stepping back, Google's name is synonymous with searching on the Web, but its goodwill is also a product of their commitment to simplicity. Google, like Apple, is a great case study in the importance of delivering technology in the context of a simple, intuitive experience. They are an experience design success story." from Danny Wahlquist's Bloglines News Blog, June 7, 2006

Letter from Vivien Wahlquist to Gene Autry June 30, 1952
"Letter from Vivien Wahlquist to Gene Autry June 30, 1952" from Danny Wahlquist's Yahoo 360 Genealogy Blog, June 6, 2006

Charting enhancements for 3.1
"As of build 3.1.7, the following charting enhancements have been made: 1. Support for new chart types: - Area - Discrete Area - Bar - StackedBar - Pie 2. Rollups for history data. 3. Can hover the mouse over chart to the exact value for each series on the chart at that point (see issue 7758)." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, June 6, 2006

Ronald Reagan, at the 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at Normandy
"The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt. You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." --Ronald Reagan, at the 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France from Danny Wahlquist's AOL Blog, June 5, 2006

Internet Explorer has more explicit language names in Windows Vista
"In Windows XP, Internet Explorer only provided partial tags for some languages. French (France) was "fr" and Japanese was "ja", yet English was "en-US". In Windows Vista, IE7 is now using full locale names for the language, so HTTP Accept Language should now provide more complete information. (ie: ja-JP for Japanese, fr-FR for French (France)). IE7 will also enumerate all of the system locales in the Language Preferences dialog, so custom locales / cultures such as haw-US, fj-FJ or even tlh-US would be listed for the user to select. Of course the user can still enter their own language tag if the desired locale isn't on the list." from Danny Wahlquist's Multiply Localization Blog, June 5, 2006

The DocBook Technical Committee has published the third Candidate Release of DocBook V4.5
"The DocBook Technical Committee has published the third Candidate Release of DocBook V4.5. We really, really expect this one to go out for balloting as an OASIS Standard." from Danny Wahlquist's Mindsay Docbook Blog, June 5, 2006

DocBook XSL 1.70.1 released
from Danny Wahlquist's Mindsay Docbook Blog, May 29, 2006

Quotable Quotes from John MacArthur's Q and A
"The best teachers are those who are teachable. You want someone with a servant's heart and enough humility to say, "I don't know"." from Danny Wahlquist's MSN Christian Blog, May 29, 2006

A Biblical Case for Elder Rule: Dan Dumas
"Elders is written in the plural form while church is a singular term. Churches are expected to have a plurality of elders. It is assumed that we would be governed in this way. Most commentators agree that this is the pattern of early church planting." from Danny Wahlquist's Xanga Web Blog, May 29, 2006

Carey Hardy: Creativity without Compromise
"You need to be accurate about the teaching, and that cannot change. But there are things you can. Many things that you can. You can take advantage of many opportunities when you let the word of God define your ministry, rather than your traditions. You should evaluate your ministry to see if there are ways you can be more effective, just so long as they remain within your guidelines." from Danny Wahlquist's myspace Christian Blog, May 29, 2006

General Session: Steve Lawson: Bring the Book!
"Every hour of spiritual awakening has been started by a recovery of Biblical expository preaching. The reformation turned Europe upside down by this. The puritans were known as expositors. The great awakening of Jonathan Edwards was marked by expository preaching. Every true revival has been ushered in my a recovery of Biblical preaching. Every true progress in church history is conditioned by a deep study of scripture. The preaching of the word of God is needed. It is the culmination of Sola Scriptura. There are five non-negotiables to Biblical preaching." from Danny Wahlquist's BlogSpirit Christian Blog, May 29, 2006

Communities and Fragmentation by Karl Seguin
"The problem is quite simple: quality technical information is increasingly difficult to find. A chief cause for this is the sheer amount of content being published - increasingly so on personal blogs, which are outside of anyone's jurisdiction. In fact blogging is so easy and effective that countless clueless developers are now technical authors. A dangerously high percentage of developers will gladly follow any advice they find on the web. The noise to signal ratio is just too high." from Danny Wahlquist's WordPress Blog, May 29, 2006

Key Input in non-English Locales in Mustang
"The keyboard related AWT code has been re-architected to fix various problems on key input in non-English locales for Solaris and Linux operating systems." from Danny Wahlquist's Jroller Localization Blog, May 29, 2006

Additional Locales in Mustang
"The following locales are now available. zh_SG - Chinese (Simplified), Singapore en_MT - English, Malta en_PH - English, Philippines en_SG - English, Singapore el_CY - Greek, Cyprus id_ID - Indonesian, Indonesia ga_IE - Irish, Ireland ms_MY - Malay, Malaysia mt_MT - Maltese, Malta pt_BR - Portuguese, Brazil pt_PT - Portuguese, Portugal es_US - Spanish, United States" from Danny Wahlquist's Multiply Localization Blog, May 29, 2006

Teaching Engineers to Write?
"I worked at Bell Labs after college, and a critical piece of required training was a writing course. I don't remember who ran it, probably some outside teaching firm, but it was really really valuable to me. A couple of the critical lessons Write like a newspaper reporter, not a grad student. Your objective is clear communication to the reader, not beauty or eruditeness or narration of your discoveries and reasoning process. Don't waste their time, or at least don't waste it up front." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot Mobile Blog, May 29, 2006

General Theory of Design by Brian Sooy
"Over 20 years ago I formulate my General Theory of Design: 'Design consists of creating things for clients who may not know what they want, until they see what you've done, then they know exactly what they want, but it's not what you did'." from Danny Wahlquist's AOL Blog, May 29, 2006

The 2006 Niagara Summit Brings Out the Best in 'Connecting Minds and Machines' - AutomatedBuildings.com
"Tridium recently welcomed the growing Niagara Community to the 2006 Niagara Summit at the Saddlebrook Resort with a theme of 'Connecting Minds and Machines'." from Danny Wahlquist's Bloglines News Blog, May 29, 2006

Memorial Day 2005 Events
"Almost every holiday has its song - 'White Christmas' and 'Easter Parade' are classics. But somehow a song for Memorial Day has been missing. Until now." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, May 29, 2006

New Attitude by CJ Mahaney
"My challenge each day is not so much working hard, but cheerfully working hard. If I understand Scripture accurately, I will not glorify God simply by working hard. To truly bring Him honor, I must labor with a cheerful spirit." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogsome Blog, May 28, 2006

Blogging policy examples by Charlene Li
from Danny Wahlquist's LiveJournal Blogging Blog, May 28, 2006

WAHLQUIST is ranked 26942 in the 1990 census
"Wahlquist is easy to search for since it is not very common. WAHLQUIST is ranked 26942 in the 1990 census. from http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.all.last" from Danny Wahlquist's Yahoo 360 Genealogy Blog, May 28, 2006

DocBook XSL 1.70.0 released
from Danny Wahlquist's Mindsay Docbook Blog, May 18, 2006

Quote from President Franklin Pierce
"But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence." - Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1853 from Danny Wahlquist's MSN Christian Blog, May 18, 2006

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
Excellent Book and I particularly like the Principles of Disruptive Innovation
1. Companies Depend on customers and Investors for Resources
2. Small Markets Don't solve the Growth Needs of Large Companies
3. Markets that Don't Exist Can't Be Analyzed
4. An Organization's Capabilities Define Its Disabilities
5. Technology Supply May Not Equal Market Demand
from Danny Wahlquist's Xanga Web Blog, May 10, 2006

Don Whitney's Ten Questions to Ask About The Da Vinci Code
"The Da Vinci Code is based upon the belief that there is a "spark of divinity that man can only achieve through union with the sacred feminine". In other words, all the problems that exist because of alienation from God can be overcome by our own efforts. There is no need for repentance according to this view, for all we need we can "achieve through [sexual] union with the sacred feminine." But the Bible declares that our hearts are desperately wicked. We are self-centered, go our own way in life, and live to indulge our own desires. Contrary to Dan Brown's theology, the Bible says that our greatest need is not for us to do something, but for something to be done for us. In His love and mercy, God did for us what we could never do for ourselves: He sent His Son to rescue us from eternal punishment for our sins. Jesus lived the perfect life that only God-in-the-flesh could live. On the cross, Jesus offered Himself to His Father as a sinless substitute in exchange for people who deserved God's righteous judgment. Then God raised Jesus to life to signify that He had accepted Jesus' sacrificial death. God offers all the benefits and blessings earned by Jesus to anyone who will turn from living his or her own way and believe that only Jesus' life and death can make them right with God. Will you rely upon God to accept you because of what you do to reach up to God, or will you rely upon what God has done through Jesus to reach down to us?" from Danny Wahlquist's myspace Christian Blog, May 10, 2006

Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed: Rules for Bootstrappers
"Greg Gianforte of RightNow did a useful presentation at the recent MySQL conference on rules for boostrapping your business. It is, welcomingly, not just some anti-VC diatribe, nor is it some up-with-Web-2.0 moonshine. Instead, the presentation is a fair, reasoned, and practical look at the implications for companies that decide to go it financially alone - alone, that is, except for check-writing customers." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot Mobile Blog, May 4, 2006

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
"The numbers show that if you have a swimming pool in your backyard and a gun in the house, the swimming pool is 100 times more likely to kill your child than your gun. Now, I am not a complete defender of guns, but people respect guns and treat them with respect. And they know the dangers. But people don't always treat swimming pools with respect. They don't realize what great dangers they pose to children. " from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, May 4, 2006

Starbucks Experience
"Starbucks believes part of its corporate purpose is to create environments that connect people so meaningfully that it changes the quality of their lives." from Danny Wahlquist's BlogSpirit Christian Blog, May 3, 2006

The Hardest Lessons for Startups To Learn
"The startups we've funded so far are pretty quick, but they seem quicker to learn some lessons than others. I think it's because some things about startups are kind of counterintuitive. We've now invested in enough companies that I've learned a trick for determining which points are the counterintuitive ones: they're the ones I have to keep repeating." from Danny Wahlquist's WordPress Blog, May 3, 2006

Think about freeing your knowledge
"OK. So, at the end of the day, whether it's a blog or a wiki, the knowledge is still technically encoded into a file which most people equate with a digital document. Actually, in many cases - for example Wordpress and MediaWiki - "collections" of knowledge (blog entres, wiki pages) ares stored in PHP-retrievable records in a MySQL database. But we see those collections on Web pages that, for some, conjure up the notion of documents. But to most, document means an Office document (Word, Excel, etc.) or a PDF document and starting with the sort of thinking that you have one of those documents to share is the wrong way to go about it. Think about freeing your knowledge. Then worry about the format after your thinking leads you to regular document land (which continues to be appropriate in very many use cases). Not only that, as I've written before, if knowledge encoded in wikis and blogs absolutely has to be forcibly removed from its resting place, there's no reason a file format like ODF can't be put to use then." from Danny Wahlquist's AOL Blog, May 3, 2006

Java technology, IBM style: Introduction to the IBM Developer Kit
"With the advent of Java 5.0 comes advances from IBM in its Java technology ports. This article opens a five-part series on changes in the latest version of the IBM Developer Kit. Author Chris Bailey begins with a brief description of the improvements to the Java 5.0 platform and moves on to a whistle-stop tour of the changes in ports from IBM." from Danny Wahlquist's Jroller Localization Blog, May 2, 2006

The myth of "keeping up"
"Finally, are WE part of the problem? Are we overwhelming our users with documentation? Or are we part of the solution to their info anxiety? We're the ones that should be helping our users really focus on the things they need at any stage. While we all recognize that we are stressed for time and on info overload, we tend to think our users have all the time in the world to figure it all out." from Danny Wahlquist's Bloglines News Blog, May 1, 2006

Why Expository Preaching?
"The Word of God is what Jesus preached (Luke 5:1). It was the message the apostles taught (Acts 4:31 and 6:2). It was the word the Samaritans received (Acts 8:14) as given by the apostles (Acts 8:25). It was the message the Gentiles received as preached by Peter (Acts 11:1). It was the word Paul preached on his first missionary journey (Acts 13:5, 7, 44, 48, 49; 15:35-36). It was the message preached on Paul's second missionary journey (Acts 16:32; 17:13; 18:11). It was the message Paul preached on his third missionary journey (Acts 19:10). It was the focus of Luke in the Book of Acts in that it spread rapidly and widely (Acts 6:7; 12:24; 19:20). Paul was careful to tell the Corinthians that he spoke the Word as it was given from God, that it had not been adulterated and that it was a manifestation of truth (2 Cor. 2:17; 4:2). Paul acknowledged that it was the source of his preaching (Col. 1:25; 1 Thess. 2:13)." from John MacArthur, The Mandate of Biblical Inerrancy: Expository Preaching from Danny Wahlquist's Blogsome Blog, May 1, 2006

Management à la Google by Gary Hamel
Evolutionary risk factor #1: A narrow or orthodox business definition that limits the scope of innovation. Google's response: An expansive sense of purpose.
Evolutionary risk factor #2: A hierarchical organization that over-weights the views of those who have a stake in perpetuating the status quo. Google's response: An organization that is flat, transparent, and non-hierarchical.
Evolutionary risk factor #3: A tendency to overinvest in "what is" at the expense of "what could be." Google's response: A company-wide rule that allows developers to devote 20% of their time to any project they choose.
Evolutionary risk factor #4: Creeping mediocrity. Google's response: Keep the bozos out and reward people who make a difference.
"Of course Google may ultimately fall victim to hubris and imperial overstretch as it takes on Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, the occasional telecom giant and pretty much everyone else in cyberspace. Or like Microsoft, it may simply become like every other big company as it grows. But that's not the way I'd bet. Google seems to have grasped the new century's most important business lesson: The capacity to evolve is the most important advantage of all." from Danny Wahlquist's LiveJournal Blogging Blog, Apr 28, 2006

Yahoo Rolls Out Translation Services
"Yahoo on Thursday introduced Babel Fish, using the same technologies that have been used by the version hosted on Alta Vista for almost a decade. The page, which looks much like Alta Vista's version, has been updated with some additional features to tie it in with other Yahoo services." from Danny Wahlquist's Multiply Localization Blog, Apr 28, 2006

The Grace Awakening : Believing in Grace is One Thing. Living it is Another.
This was an excellent book to make me think deeply about living daily by grace. I especially appreciated his five characteristics of grace-awakening ministers who free rather than bind:
1. Generosity with personal possessions (absence of selfishness)
2. Encouragement in unusual settings (absence of predictability)
3. Life beyond the letter of Scripture (absence of dogmatic Bible-bashing)
4. Liberty for creative expression (absence of expectations)
5. Release from past failures (absence of shame)
One of my favorite quotes was from Celeste Holm "We live by encouragement and we die without it; slowly, sadly, angrily." from Danny Wahlquist's MSN Christian Blog, Apr 28, 2006

Missouri Death Certificate Database
"The Death Certificate Database was made possible by the work of over 600 volunteers and students from across the nation and other countries, who logged over 27,000 hours. Volunteers will continue to work on the project until digital images of all the certificates are available online, an accomplishment that will benefit genealogists and scholars throughout the country. The database will be available at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates." from Danny Wahlquist's Yahoo 360 Genealogy Blog, April 27, 2006

The Web is International
"It's so easy to think that if you're writing a Web site in Canada or Denmark or the United States, that your readers are also in the country that you're in. But frankly, that's not necessarily the case. I get email from people in Australia, in Prague, in Africa, and many places around the world. Writing a Web site means writing for a global audience, and there are some tricks you can use even if you're only going to write in your native language." from Danny Wahlquist's Jroller Localization Blog, Apr 27, 2006

It's all the same
"Product development, marketing, PR, support, design, programming, etc - it's all the same thing. We don't put time aside for PR or time aside for design or time aside for tech support. We're always doing all of these things. They are all part of the same thing: building products we love to build." from Danny Wahlquist's Mindsay Docbook Blog, Apr 27, 2006

Great Stories
"Most of all, great stories agree with our world view. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead, the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the first place." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot News Blog, Apr 27, 2006

Why The Next Big Thing doesn't usually come from market leaders
"Clayton Christensen from Harvard wrote The Innovator's Dilemma back in 1997. I have read the book several times and always discover something new. Great book with lots of lessons for business leaders." from Danny Wahlquist's Blogspot Mobile Blog, Apr 27, 2006

May we suggest?
"We've been collecting suggestions since we launched, and we have tons of anecdotal evidence, but engineers like numbers, so we needed a solution fast. By the end of the week, we launched our new suggestions page." from Danny Wahlquist's Bloglines News Blog, Apr 27, 2006

Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote on Prayer
"Day and night I pray for the restoration of peace in this mad world of ours. It is not necessary that I, the President ask the American people to pray in behalf of such a cause for I know you are praying with me. I am certain that out of the hearts of every man, woman and child in this land, in every waking minute, a supplication goes up to Almighty God; that all of us beg that suffering and starving, that death and destruction may end -- and that peace may return to the world." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 26, 1940 from Danny Wahlquist's myspace Christian Blog, Apr 27, 2006

My passion is awesome, your passion is lame
"Bottom line: if we want to help our users explain their passion to others, we need to help give them the tools to do so. It may often be unsuccessful - some people will always have a closed mind around things they can't see or feel for themselves--but it's way better than nothing." from Danny Wahlquist's Xanga Web Blog, Apr 26, 2006

Two monitors are better than one
"You can never have enough screen space, especially when organizing and working on digital photographs. Instead of buying a larger monitor, if you're using Windows XP, you can buy an inexpensive second monitor and connect it to your computer - instantly doubling your desktop space. Learn how to connect and use two monitors with your desktop or notebook PC." from Danny Wahlquist's AOL Blog, Apr 26, 2006

Six Tenets of Customer Evangelism
1. Customer Plus-Delta: Continuously gather customer feedback.
2. Napsterized knowledge: Make it a point to share knowledge freely.
3. Build the buzz: Expertly build word-of-mouth networks.
4. Create community: Encourage communities of customers to meet and share.
5. Make bite-sized chunks: Devise specialized, smaller offerings to get customers to bite.
6. Create a cause: Focus on making the world, or an industry, better.
from Creating Customer Evangelists by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba. from Danny Wahlquist's WordPress Blog, Apr 25, 2006

Why are you afraid of process? by Seth Godin
"If process makes you nervous, it's probably because it threatens your reliance on intuition. Get over it. The best processes leverage your intuition and give it room to thrive." from Danny Wahlquist's LiveJournal Blogging Blog, Apr 25, 2006

You visit someone's house - do you leave your shoes on or take them off?
"It's a strange question but actually it illustrates an interesting example about how when considering "localization" in any sense you need to think of so many factors regardless of how obscure they may seem." from Danny Wahlquist's Multiply Localization Blog, Apr 24, 2006

Humility: True Greatness by CJ Mahaney
"This is the most practical book on humility that I have read. It references many other excellent works, like Don Whitney's Spiritual Disciplines and Jerry Bridges' The Gospel for Real Life. It also summarizes his 17 practical steps to weaken pride and cultivate humility." from Danny Wahlquist's BlogSpirit Christian Blog, Apr 25, 2006