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.

Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Your Google Analytics Plugin Won’t Show a Graph

Yeah, Congress really needs to rake Google over the coals. Since our government can be easily bought I expect we will have to wait for the EU to start putting Google execs in prison right and left. Out of nowhere your Google analytics plugin stops showing a graph. You visit…

Roland HughesNovember 7, 2020November 7, 2020

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So Long Earth

Science Fiction Published: January 2020 2017. Dr. Thomas Burns, an environmental engineer, is listening to the President, talk about global warming. He and his colleagues quickly realize that Earth will no longer be able to sustain life in a few years. Environmental disasters all over the world are occurring at…

Roland HughesNovember 3, 2020

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The Minimum You Need to Know About the Phallus of AGILE

At long last it is finally out! “A journey through IT history explaining why SDLC Waterfall Model is Software Engineering and AGILE will never be.” As distribution updates trickle out to other retailers you should see it at Barnes & Nobles, BAM and most other online book sellers. As of…

Roland HughesOctober 31, 2020October 31, 2020

Reviews

Review – Second Act

★★★★☆ Most of you know that Jennifer Lopez movies aren’t high on my list of things to watch. I will usually watch one of the DVDs I own for the hundredth time rather than put one of her films on. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t have high hopes for…

Roland HughesOctober 26, 2020

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A Yellow Sticky Can Save Your Career

Everybody except Jeffrey Toobin (and probably his family) is having a good yuck over this incident. Never ever trust a Microsoft product Never ever trust anything connected to the Internet Never ever think your camera is off There are even some reports that the microphone was turned on. So far…

Roland HughesOctober 24, 2020November 12, 2020

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I Love You Always

One Family’s Alzheimer’s/Dementia Journey and the Lessons Learned Along the Way Non Fiction Date Published: July 10, 2020 “I Love You Always” introduces you to Lottie Mae Polk Berry, am self-proclaimed badass who battles Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia for years, hoping to make it to age 90. Her daughter, LaBena,…

Roland HughesOctober 22, 2020

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The Internal Threat

Aviation, Government, Academia, Education, and Leadership Development, Consulting and Training Date Published: October 21, 2020 In this book, The Internal Threat: The Community Behind the Security Checkpoint, Dr. Stacey Tyler provides a qualitative study on the central research question that focuses on the degree to which miscommunication between TSA,…

Roland HughesOctober 21, 2020