Lauren2

About: I have experience in project and product management in companies ranging from small (SoftQuad Software) to large (Sun Microsystems), and products ranging from consumer to enterprise, with components ranging from hardware through software to the cloud. My pragmatic project management methods work while encouraging all team members to be part of the team.

Technology background: identity/privacy/security, XML, publishing, HTML and related web standards

Are you a company or a mentor? Mentor

Company Name Textuality Services, Inc.

Your Position Principal

What are you looking for? I'm interested in helping companies with product management and project management in software and web applications. I can help you get those things done that need to be done, and figure out what doesn't need to be done now (or, maybe, at all).


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November 19 2011
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August 31 2011

Requiring OmniAuth - A small note in the “in case I need this again” category. I’m writing a Sinatra app and want to add Twitter OAuth for signing in. A good way to do this appears to be with the omniauth gem but I ran into an issue. require 'oa-oauth' is the documented ...

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August 23 2011

Syncing Google Calendar and Tungle - I came across this weird problem recently, where my Tungle account (tungle.me/laurenwood) was only synchronizing some of the events on my Google calendar. I checked they were set to the right calendar (yes), marked as busy (yes), and still couldn’t f...

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May 23 2011

Manager Skills - Somehow I missed the news about Google’s Project Oxygen earlier this year. This was a large project that measured what skills the most effective managers at Google use, and the pitfalls poor managers fall into. As one might expect from Google, the re...

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May 18 2011

#nv11 - That was what we put on the front of the t-shirts this year, #nv11. Some bright spark (I forget who, sorry, the two days blur together a bit) pointed out that the t-shirts were green with NV, which was an impressive pun, or at least better than anyth...

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April 28 2011

Oil Consequences - I know a couple of people who are on the pessimistic side of the Peak oil hypothesis, and a couple who are equally fervent in their optimistic belief (the idea being that we’ll always find more and/or technology will save the day). As is my wont, I’m...

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April 27 2011

Installing Debian - The next stage in the great project to migrate back from Debian from OpenSolaris: installing Debian. Wow, it’s so much easier these days! Here are my random notes from the install. I chose the network install option and burned the .iso to a CD. Then ...

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