So I had this idea for a blog...

I am what they call a one-man-band...I play all the intruments and sing. Is it a good band? Well I guess that is for the listener.

I work at a small software development company and I am the entire I.T. department. I wear quite a few hats. Money is tight as you can expect at a small company but expectations are still high enough that sometimes you have to just sit back and be amazed at what you need to do.

Do these people think that equipment and service just appear? Does education grow on trees? Training? Experience?

I am lucky that my bosses really don't think like that or treat me badly. I have a pretty good amount of automony and as long as they don't see a problem, I must be doing my job. FYI, that is a job pitfall too...I will write about that some other time.

Anyway, I am starting a new project and I thought that it would be a good place to start a blog of how things happen in a one-person IT dept.

Project wiki:

I need to set up and test a wiki-type site for one of our new programs. So I set up a test sever with IIS and now I need to set the environment up to install and configure a wiki-site.

Install PHP
Install MySQL
Install MySQL-admin toolkit
Install PHPwiki

Cost for all of this? zero. We are treading into open source territory for this project. I will post more later.