First impressions of using Google Sheets

Not bad.  Certainly not as robust as the Microsoft desktop counterparts, but pretty awesome.  I’m now using Sheets to perform financial analysis and after some tinkering and digging today, I feel that I am a moderate level of comfort (which is about where I was...

Backing up Confluence

Recently started using Confluence as the wiki of choice – wow, that was an adventure I should probably write an article on.  To backup the entire Confluence Site (i.e. all Spaces), click Cog >> General Configuration >> Backup Manager.  From here,...

Prevent Heroes of the Storm from minimizing

I’m a casual player of Heroes of the Storm.  Recently, the game kept kicking me out to the desktop.  The game appears to have a display issue because it flickers while loading, but then ends up back at the desktop.  Blizzard has not provided a solution to the...

My current development setup

I use a number of programs for development.  They can be intertwined, have nuances, etc.  I offer some thoughts on each, but also serves as a reminder on my development setup.   NetBeans This is my IDE for web development.  I use it because it compiles LESS,...