May 23, 2010
Waterfall Charts in R
It is often hard to wrap your head around the finances of organizations and the unusual accounting rules of public organizations make that even more difficult. When I read The McKinsey Way…
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Apr 16, 2010
Shell Script for Remember the Milk
A couple of weeks ago, the Remember the Milk blog posted about adding tasks at the command line. A simple way to handle task generation, but a bit too complex for even…
Apr 12, 2010
Review of the CA's Business Plan
The CA's Financial Advisory Committee has completed its requested review of the CA's proposed business plan. Columbia Association - Revi... by James P. Howard, II on Scribd
Mar 11, 2010
Review of the Columbia Association's Fiscal Targets
Review of the Columbia Asso... by James P. Howard, II on Scribd
Mar 6, 2010
Bad Math from Wow Containers
I just saw an advertisement for something called Wow Containers which allows the tops and bottoms of containers to be interchangeable with each other. So far, this seems sensible. Then the commercial…
Feb 1, 2010
Working with Mediawiki
Working with Mediawiki from James Howard Above are the slides/handout from a short course I prepared in 2008 called "Working with Mediawiki." The slides give a very brief overview of Mediawiki then…
Jan 28, 2010
PWCrypt is Now at Bitbucket
As part of my plan to rescue data from old CVS repositories, PWCrypt is now available at Bitbucket. PWCrypt provides command line access to the Unix crypt library function. This program and…
Jan 27, 2010
Policy Entrepreneurship at the Dorr Foundation
Policy Entrepreneurship at the Dorr Foundation from James Howard In 2008, I gave this presentation to the University of Baltimore course on nonprofit management about how the Dorr Foundation's research led to…
Jan 15, 2010
Privatizing BWI
Dennis Lane blogs about the possible privatization of BWI airport and suggests this doesn't make sense since the airport generates positive revenue for the State of Maryland. This isn't quite true. The…
Dec 24, 2009
Why I am howardjp
A few weeks ago, someone asked on Facebook why my username is howardjp. Off to the left on this blog, you will see links to my accounts on Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub, and…
Dec 16, 2009
Source Code for LX, a Link Shortener
Last August, I began work on a link shortening service as a me-too kind of project. In my case, I wanted to provide custom domains, so that, for instance, The Washington Post…