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Archive of Administrivia Articles
Carson Didn’t Work On Fridays
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And this week, neither do we.
Have a great weekend, see y’all at our regularly scheduled time next week (every weeknight).
Scott
Yesterday’s BPMN Post Was A Big Fat Lie
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Yesterday’s post contained a pretty significant mistake (aka “Big Fat Lie”). I showed a diagram that was in violation of the BPMN specification for intermediate message events.
The post has been corrected, showing both the “bad” instructions, and the associated corrections. The [...]
Now Easier Than Ever to Subscribe!
It just got easier to subscribe to Tyner Blain – by email!
We’ve added a page explaining subscription options, and updated our sidebar with the option to subscribe by email, thanks to our service provider, Feedblitz.
Non-Functional Requirements ERA [now available]
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PEBBAK* error!
Through a complete oversight / ommission / coma, the Non-Functional Requirements Equal Rights Amendment article was accidentally marked as private shortly after it was published. I was wondering why so many 404s happened when people tried to read it.
Well, its back now. [...]
Bear with us
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Laptop died last night.
Migrating to home pc.
Will be back next week.
New theme for Tyner Blain!
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We’ve upgraded our theme!
The new look should provide much better support for users with larger monitors, while still supporting folks reading at 800×600 resolution.
We’ve added a calendar widget to make it easy to find the posts for a given date.
We have easier navigation from [...]
Tyner Blain in the Google Toobar
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Tyner Blain can now be viewed thru the Google Toolbar!
In the top of the sidebar (on the right) is a link to automatically add Tyner Blain to your Google Toolbar. As of today, it is only supported for IE users, but Google [...]
You can fool some of the SQL some of the time…
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Thanks to the folks who pointed out to me that the blog was down for almost 12 hours today. The mysql database for our blog went down and it took a little while to get it operational again. [...]
Little black book
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I realized a few moments ago that I have been remiss in updating my little black book blogroll with some of the really good blogs that I read.
I thought I’d take a moment to shout out to them and thank them for some really great content [...]

