Archive of Administrivia Articles

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 proper way to use intermediate message events within the normal sequence flow has also [...]

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.

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. Enjoy it, and comment. It highlights a critical issue [...]

Laptop died last night.
Migrating to home pc.
Will be back next week.

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 page to page, within search results, archives, categories and navigating from [...]

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 is now a supporter of firefox, so they’ll be adding support for [...]

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.  Now to get back to the actual business of posting content…

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 that has helped us to our jobs better. [...]

For folks who were paying attention recently, I added some technorati tagging capabilities to the site, and started adding tags to the posts.  Guess I got a little overzealous (or the plugin was a little flaky), and I brought the site down.
We appear to be back up now, and thanks for your patience.  Sorry ’bout [...]

We’ve added polls to the site - in the sidebar. Please vote when you see them - they will help us drive content, learn, etc.