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Creative Work

I started writing this blog in 2003. The first name was Gary’s Radio Weblog—I used Dave Winer’s Radio Userland. I moved the blog to SquareSpace a bit later and renamed it Gary’s FeedForward to parallel my work at Automation World magazine. When I left Automation World...

Ignition Pro Security Tips

Jennifer Faylor from Inductive Automation wrote this  blog—Ignition 8.3 Pro Tips: Supercharge System Security—a few weeks ago offering some security tips for users of Ignition. There’s more. Check out the blog for the entire essay. She begins, “In honor of...

Study Shows Business Value Gained From Artificial Intelligence-Internet of Things Convergence

User studies remain one of the primary ways software companies can gain insight and achieve some public recognition. Most of the studies emanate from cybersecurity protection developers. This one comes from a software company with which I’ve had little contact. There...

True Leadership

I receive few stories about good leadership in manufacturing (or anywhere else, for that matter). I read a business book in the 80s called Proactive Management. The author talked about all the stakeholders in a business—including owners, employees, customers,...

Write Once, Run Anywhere

The comment brought memories from many years ago when I first heard about a new programming language/operating system. Java. I rushed to the local bookstore to purchase a book. It was huge. I downloaded the Java Development Kit. Eventually, I downloaded eclipse, an...

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