Author: Roland Hughes

Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS platforms and Qt on Linux. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems. With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author's experience is focused on systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author's unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of technology in industry.

Experience Publishing Technology

That Expensive POD Thing

Now that “The Phallus of AGILE” is well past 200 pages with the framework of the content in place I poked around today doing a search for the lowest priced POD (Print on Demand) service. I decided to put the worst case scenario to the test. A second edition of…

Roland HughesAugust 10, 2017

Experience Reviews

The Carpetbaggers

I put this movie on my rental list because of the blurb CafeDVD had, saying this was the movie which caused our current movie ratings sytem to be created. From a guy point of view, especially a guy of a certain age, this is an old movie worth putting on…

Roland HughesAugust 9, 2017

Experience Reviews Stories

The Big Chill

I remember seeing this movie when I was a 20-something working like a dog at my career and trying to hang onto some friends from school while desperately pursuing and advanced degree in carnal knowledge. (Hey, most of us do at some point but few admit it.) I remember watching…

Roland HughesAugust 9, 2017August 8, 2017

Experience Publishing Stories Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Killing Patients Wholesale

As a writer you are faced with many dilemmas. The most paralytic of these is “where to start a story?” Pen names have existed for ages, so as long as you never put a picture of yourself on your work, few will know it is you. A metropolis sized sewer…

Roland HughesAugust 7, 2017August 6, 2017

Experience Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Getting Justification and Underscore in WordPress

Most of the time I create a rough draft of my posts on here using FocusWriter or KWrite. There was a brief and horrible period where I tried to use jEdit which is quite possibly the second largest pig of an editor in the world. It definitely has the worst…

Roland HughesAugust 6, 2017October 28, 2020

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

I’m Writing a Book

At some point we have all heard someone make that claim. Before we were writers ourselves we probably thought and sometimes even said “Yeah right! You’re sitting around watching Oprah and playing video games, unemployed again.” Admit it. When most people tell you they are writing a book, even if…

Roland HughesAugust 5, 2017August 2, 2017

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

The Statue of Liberty Poem

Today on NPR I heard a story about the current brew-ha-ha involving immigration policy and the Statue of Liberty. Long before this current heated conversation I wrote a book which had this poem, The New Colossus, as its central theme. Here is a short excerpt. “I still can’t see where…

Roland HughesAugust 3, 2017