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Tracking Amazon Sales Rank, Obtaining Accurate Estimates
I have been a published author for over seven years now and if there is one thing I can't stand about the industry its waiting!
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Date: 2007-01-31

C# Stock Quote Class
A couple of months ago one of my readers asked me to build a stock quote class that would automatically update the quote.
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Date: 2007-01-31

FMS: Pending Clients Before Accepting a Connection
I'm currently working on a video chat app using Flash Media Server and Flex. This will be version 2 of my Ameegos.com excercise and this time I want to add real scalability to the app.
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Date: 2007-01-31

Form Post in Spry
Last week or so I blogged about doing form postings with Spry.
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Date: 2007-01-31

MySQL IPO, Oracle Unbreakable Support for MySQL?
Matt Aslett writes that Oracle may be considering Unbreakable Support for MySQL and that MySQL Co. is likely to IPO later this year.
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Date: 2007-01-31

Encourage Career Self-Management - Take the Heat off of HR
Is tackling talent management one of your goals this year? Employees are becoming more demanding, and topping their list is professional growth and development.
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Date: 2007-01-31

Sales Challenges that Prevent Executive Level Access
With the complexity of today's business solutions and their far-reaching affects, more often than not senior level executives are actively involved in the process of assessing the issues and their options.
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Date: 2007-01-31

Establish Optimum Inventory
Establishing optimum inventory is the most important thing for any organization. For, optimum inventory is the level that is sufficient to meet the projected demand, but not enough to erode the projected profits.
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Date: 2007-01-30

Howto Backup your Mac incrementally over SSH
Do you have access to a shell account on a unix server with some spare space? If so it's pretty easy to incrementally backup your files securely with SSH.
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Date: 2007-01-30

Review: Wicked Cool Perl Scripts
Order (or just read more about) Wicked Cool Perl Scripts from Amazon.com
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Date: 2007-01-30

A Universal Data Type Checker
In many different scenarios we need to check if a string can be converted into an integer e.g.
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Date: 2007-01-30

ASP.NET: Working with Query Strings
In many cases we write our ASP.NET logic around query strings in order to show the right product page or what not.
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Date: 2007-01-30

Web Development On Your Own Terms
The early days of web development saw a relatively small handful of 'experts' and had them seeking to find ways to make a website do what their client wanted them to do.
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Date: 2007-01-29

ASP.NET: Access Client Info Server-side
I was playing around with HTTP request headers and for some reason started thinking about how limited information they provide about the requesting browser.
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Date: 2007-01-29

Security Event Manager Review
Over the last few months I have been fortunate to beta test, or test a number of information security tools to see how well they would work in a high volume environment.
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Date: 2007-01-29

New Ideas for a New Market
Time Magazine made me Person of the Year.
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Date: 2007-01-29

LAMP Development - Backbone of the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web has always been an entity that needed a little bit of help in order to run effectively.
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Date: 2007-01-29

Debugging Tip for Flex/ColdFusion
There are multiple methods of debugging applications, including the very cool FusionDebug, log files, ServiceCapture, and the debugging rolled into Flex Builder 2 itself.
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Date: 2007-01-29

Open Up & Say Growth
Matt points to an interesting article about using an open business model.
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Date: 2007-01-26

Specializations for Outsourcing
Google's in the press again, and this time about information security, and a host of other "specializations" that can be, and maybe should be outsourced.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Knowledge Management Book Review
I have been reading this short book on knowledge management, by Carl Frappaolo, on and off since the Delphi Business Process Innovation Summit.
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Date: 2007-01-25

ASP.NET: Make GridView Control Accessible
The GridView is a new web control in ASP.NET 2.0 and is an improvement of the old DataGrid.
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Date: 2007-01-25

ASP.NET: HttpModule for Query String Encryption
URL parameters or query strings are often used to carry information that can be used by hackers to do identity theft or other unpleasant things.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Implementing PICS and P3P in ASP.NET Headers
PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) and P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) are two really nice things to be aware of when developing web applications.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Innovation, Maintenance and Open Source
A NetworkWorld article quotes Google's GM of Enterprise Business as saying:
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Date: 2007-01-25

Different Way to Monitor Your Terminal Server Environment
In the past I have discussed the Citrix Resource manager and Windows Performance monitor as ways of troubleshooting your environment.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Are Short-term Contracts Damaging to Your Company?
Why do managers use temporary contracts and agency staff? Sometimes it is for short-term projects.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Interim Executive Consultancy - How It's Viewed
Many organisations face a dilemma in business strategy.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Leadership as a Boss in the Workplace
Do you give your employees the type of leadership in the workplace that they come to expect? What is it that you think they do expect from you as the boss?
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Date: 2007-01-25

Tips for Creating an Effective Product Newsletter
I've been working for a software developer company for about 5 years. We regularly send the letters about new program releases and upgrades to our customers and different newsletters to those people who subscribed to our mailing list.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Cisco CCNP / BSCI: Using The OSPF Command "Area Range"
Your BSCI and CCNP exam success depends on knowing the details, and one such detail is knowing the proper way to summarize routes in OSPF.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Cisco CCNA Exam: Five ISDN Details To Remember
CCNA exam success depends on mastering many technologies that are new to you, and few exam topics have more details than ISDN.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Does Your Site Deserve Targeted Traffic?
Have you noticed how entitled some people seem to feel about getting targeted, interested visitors to their sites?
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Date: 2007-01-25

Determining the Lifetime Value of Your Customers
"Lifetime value is expressed as the total dollar value of your average customer over the entire period that they're likely to do business with you.." - Bob Serling
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Date: 2007-01-25

Employment Gaps One Step at a Time
You're really doing it. You're going back into the rat race.
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Date: 2007-01-25

IT Support, The Crucial Factor For Your Business
Long gone are the days when IT systems consist of poor-performing PCs, Notebooks & Servers with an IT support company that is unreliable and has slow response times. Well, that is how it should be!
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Date: 2007-01-25

Reducing eCommerce Stress
Certainly it's important to plan and prepare for an online marketplace.
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Date: 2007-01-25

Stop Margin Erosion at the Point of Sale
What do you do when faced with a potential customer who is relentlessly insisting on a discount?
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Date: 2007-01-24

RSS: Usability Problems And Solutions
RSS is a family of web-feed formats that is used for web syndication. It can also be used by news websites, weblogs and podcasting, among others.
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Date: 2007-01-24

Get Rid of the Acrobat PDFMaker Toolbar in Office XP
This is a post I made in an old blog over a year ago, but that blog no longer exists and I had to go hunting for this information again today.
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Date: 2007-01-24

Postbacks with Parameters in JavaScript
Whenever you use a Button or LinkButton it is because you want to be able to do a postback when it is clicked.
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Date: 2007-01-24

MySQL Administration via ColdFusion
A user asked me if it was possible to backup and restore a MySQL database from ColdFusion.
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Date: 2007-01-24

Ideal Networking Tips for the Creative Entrepreneur
These tips are ideas that I have used successfully and often recommend to other creative entrepreneurs.
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Date: 2007-01-24

Who Needs Website Quality?
Back in the days, to get into the search engines you only had to submit a site to them and it'd show up in the results (or you could just get listed in the Yahoo directory).
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Date: 2007-01-24

How Bluetooth Features Can Change What You Do
Bluetooth is the name for an emerging technology that uses short-range radio links instead of cables to connect portable electronic devices.
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Date: 2007-01-24

How Bad Hires Can Hurt Your Business
What's worse - hiring the wrong person or not hiring anyone at all?
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Date: 2007-01-24

Copy Writers: See Yourself As the Product
When I teach my copywriters and other coaching students how to package themselves, I use a specific formula to get them from "ground zero" to a "complete package."
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Date: 2007-01-24

Good Information Security Resources
The month of Apple Bugs is just about over with, and the Month of Kernel bugs is over with, but still the zero day tracker keeps on plugging along and giving out some interesting information that is of a lot of use.
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Date: 2007-01-23

Building Somebody Else's Vision
I had an interesting issue come up with a client recently.
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Date: 2007-01-23

The Dark Side of Interactive Marketing Isn't So Dark
Privacy advocates are busy stirring the pot over the allegedly illicit invasiveness of behaviorally targeted ads, but a close examination of available data reveals that their hand-wringing is little more than hot air.
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Date: 2007-01-23

Warn a User About a Session Timeout with Javascript
A coworker asked me this so I thought I'd whip up a quick example.
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Date: 2007-01-23

Convert a MySQL Injection Script for Use in Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL Server is the most widely used database management system in the world, primarily because it is open source and free.
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Date: 2007-01-23

ASP.NET: Keep the Content-type in Sync
Most websites include a meta-tag that tells the browser what content-type the document is. It looks like this:
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Date: 2007-01-23

3PL Defined - Back to Basics in 2007
Organizations want to develop products for global markets. At the same time, they need to source material globally to be competitive.
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Date: 2007-01-23

XML Code Comments: What, Why and How
During the years I've seen a lot of different ways of commenting code - some good and some bad.
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Date: 2007-01-22

Flex/ColdFusion Mystery and a Very Simple Answer
I was working on a Flex project when I hit a brick wall. I had a very simple form.
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Date: 2007-01-22

Sugar CRM - Roadmap to Commercial Open Source Technology
Sugar CRM is commercial Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes, based on the LAMP stack (Linux-OS; Apache-Web Server; MySQL-Database Server; PHP-Programming Language).
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Date: 2007-01-22

FlashVars in Flex
Last month I wrote an article about how to use FlashVars in a Flex application.
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Date: 2007-01-22

ASP.NET: Choose a Standard Number Format
Today, I ran into an issue regarding the way numbers are parsed in different cultures, which resulted in very wrong numbers.
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Date: 2007-01-19

ASP.NET: Easily Block DoS Attacks
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming a more and more common way to bring websites and servers down.
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Date: 2007-01-19

CRM - Eliminate Complexity Layers
Traditional approaches to system development include design of both the application and platform strategies.
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Date: 2007-01-19

Configuring Standard Access Lists
Access Control Lists (ACLs) allow a router to permit or deny packets based on a variety of criteria.
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Date: 2007-01-19

Branding Your Customers
Branding your business is simply giving the public and your customers an image of your company.
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Date: 2007-01-19

On the Job Training for More Effective Managers
Every serious manager and supervisor knows HR seminars and trainings are not just perfect excuses for yet another powerpoint presentation and coffee-and-biscuit break.
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Date: 2007-01-18

Overload Operators the Right Way in C#
It's a good rule of thumb to overload the equality operators on classes.
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Date: 2007-01-18

Frames and Model-Glue
Dan asked the following question about frames and Model-Glue:
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Date: 2007-01-18

Hardware Essentials for Windows Vista
Windows Vista works based on the capabilities of the hardware installed. Windows Vista Capable PCs and Windows Vista Premium Ready PCs both are geared for running Windows Vista but the experience varies with the "premium" delivering more advanced user experience.
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Date: 2007-01-18

Cisco CCNP Exam: Defining Collision Domains
CCNA exam success depends on mastering the fundamentals, and two important fundamentals are knowing exactly what the terms "collision domain" and "broadcast domain" mean.
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Date: 2007-01-18

The Journey Into Entrepreneurship
For most of us there comes a day when we toy with the idea of starting a small business; work stress and frustrated career goals can often leave us thirsting for autonomy and starting a small business seems to fit the bill.
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Date: 2007-01-17

Parsing XML As Query Object In Coldfusion
I work in the financial industry as a developer and not that the financial industry has any greater implementation of XML than any other, but web applications that utilize back office processing for loan applications, or new account opening processes, or retail internet banking applications all to some extent make calls to a host. Many times it's a DB2 database, and many times some other process that returns account information or validation information in xml format.
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Date: 2007-01-17

Open Source Needs More Concerted Efforts
Major corporate houses choose open source partly due to the economic gains and mainly due to the control the open source system gives to their hands.
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Date: 2007-01-17

What is Hot and What is Not in the Industry?
Top 10 Winners Predicted for 2007
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Date: 2007-01-17

Video Syndication Equals Free Targeted Traffic
When article directories became the rage a few years ago, now with hundreds, even thousands of them all over the web, syndication became a serious business.
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Date: 2007-01-17

What To Avoid When Setting Up An Online Store
Are you planning start your own online store? Avoid these mistakes if you want your online shop to be successful.
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Date: 2007-01-16

Creating Web2.0 Apps w/ AJAX & Clientside HTTP Requests
Web2.0 is a term coined to refer to web applications that run without visible page refreshes. A normal website functions by delivering pages of information, with links that allow a user to move from page to page.
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Date: 2007-01-16

Using Wordpress as a CMS
There has been talk about using Wordpress beyond the typical blog set-up, into the realms of a full-fledged content management system or CMS. Yet, most people have no idea how this is even possible.
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Date: 2007-01-16

Hardware Routers vs. Kerio Winroute Firewall
I had a call from a customer who already uses Kerio Mailserver. He had downloaded a demo of Kerio WinRoute Firewall and said he had a few questions.
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Date: 2007-01-16

The Web Has Become the Organization
The Web has become the organization. An organization of a billion people with a billion things to say. And a million ways to work together.
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Date: 2007-01-15

What Your Workers Want From You
Workers are human beings. That may seem obvious to you, but because of that simple fact, we've got decades of behavioral science research that can help us understand what they want.
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Date: 2007-01-15

An iSCSI debate....
I loved Chuck Hollis' (EMC) blog, and equally enjoyed both Dave Hitz and Tony Asaro's responses. With EMC, Netapp, and another ESG'er pontificating on an issue, it must be good.
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Date: 2007-01-15

Tune Up Your Newsletter for Compliance
In this article we'll continue talking about how to create a healthy email message and give a few tips how to survive anti-spam filters.
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Date: 2007-01-15

OSPF Route Redistribution Review
OSPF route redistribution is an important topic on the BSCI exam, and its a topic full of details and defaults that you need to know for the exam room and the job.
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Date: 2007-01-15

Setting up Apache Server Mappings for HomeSite
This information was gleaned from a number of websites and my own trials in getting this to work, but I thought it would be useful to have it in one place for other HomeSite users who may not be overly familiar with server configuration.
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Date: 2007-01-15

Understanding the Basics of ITIL
In the world of IT management, ITIL is the buzzword being heard around the globe. So what is ITIL and how does it affect your organization? Let's take a closer look!
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Date: 2007-01-15

Turning Problems into Business Opportunities
Turn a Problem into a Business Opportunity by creative thinking.
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Date: 2007-01-15

Corporate Email Wanders
Technewsworld is running a story on company personnel who forward company e-mail to their MSN, Google, Yahoo, or other hosted e-mail accounts.
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Date: 2007-01-15

Content Rich Creativity
We have all heard the term content-rich, but what does content rich really mean?
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Date: 2007-01-12

ASP.NET - Block IP Addresses from Your Site
Recently, one of my readers asked me how to block certain IP addresses from accessing his ASP.NET website.
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Date: 2007-01-12

SOA: Assistance with JBI Application Integration
The methodology of Enterprise Integration has advanced to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) because of its ability to weave disparate applications and services to produce a business structure where data can flow as a business process.
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Date: 2007-01-12

ASP.NET - Toggle Non-server Control Visibility
Since ASP.NET 1.0 you had the ability to toggle the visibility of any HTML tag with the runat="server" attribute.
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Date: 2007-01-12

Taking Advantage Of Web 2.0 Marketing
This is such an exciting time on the web for people creating magnetic sites filled with content their niche is after.
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Date: 2007-01-12

Giving in to Temptation
This analysis was conceived when the coauthors discovered we'd each been independently seriously tempted to buy a Mac Mini, and realized what that temptation implied.
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Date: 2007-01-11

Getting the Best Out of Article Syndication
We all hear how important articles are - especially when used as a tool to help boost search engine rankings.
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Date: 2007-01-11

Background Tasks (Why?)
A comp.unix.shell newsgroup post asked a neophyte question about how to run a script in the background.
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Date: 2007-01-11

SEO and the Perfection Fallacy
In conversations, forums and conferences, I continually hear search engine optimization professionals and business executives talking about the so-called "perfect tactics."
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Date: 2007-01-11

Integrating w/ (Future) Competition
Alex Fletcher has a nice list of hypothetical new year's resolutions for the open source community.
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Date: 2007-01-10

Marketing Tips For Computer Consultants, VARs, & Solution Providers
"We all sell the same thing... there's no difference between what one company offers compared to another." Those are the words a manager of a large, but struggling technology solution provider revealed to me.
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Date: 2007-01-10

Invalidating the Linux Buffer Cache
When you write data, it doesn't necessarily get written to disk right then. The kernel maintains caches of many things, and disk data is something where a lot of work is done to keep everything fast and efficient.
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Date: 2007-01-10

Will 2007 Be The Year of the Ultra Mobile PC?
The year 2006 brought the computer world a new form factor, this was the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC).
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Date: 2007-01-10

Outsourcing the Grunge Work
Interesting ideas floating around today, the basic premise is that people are earning a lot of money to build and tear down ACL's, manage routers, switches, firewalls, and other general day to day maintenance.
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Date: 2007-01-10

Preventing a Brute Force or Dictionary Attack
To understand and then combat a brute force attack, also known as a dictionary attack, we must start by understanding why it might be an appealing tool for a hacker.
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Date: 2007-01-10

Knowledge Management - An Evolving Discipline
Knowledge Management (KM) refers to a range of practices and techniques used by organizations to identify, represent and distribute knowledge, know-how, expertise, intellectual capital and other forms of knowledge for leverage, reuse and transfer of knowledge and learning across the organization.
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Date: 2007-01-10

Open Source Software Closer to Commercial Enterprise Software
The odds are good that the LAMP stack is running somewhere inside your company.
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Date: 2007-01-09

Ajax-Enabled App Exploitation Framework
Reading an interesting paper from Wisec Italy, who presented a paper on an exploitation framework for Ajax and Web 2.0.
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Date: 2007-01-09

A Perl and C# Comparison
A search that I have noticed that has been passed to my site was "perl c# comparison", I would assume that the person that asked this was trying to compare the languages and not how c# and perl perform comparisons.
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Date: 2007-01-09

ColdFusion / XML Query Style
At one point or another, whether it's an enterprise level website, or one of your own, you're going to have the burning desire to see how you can take advantage of what XML can do for your applications.
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Date: 2007-01-09

The Mobile Chaos Continues...
Today, Google announced another mobile partnership (this time with Samsung), and Yahoo released Yahoo Go 2.0 (this is not long after Ask released their mobile search, which didn't include a search box).
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Date: 2007-01-09

Case Study: 4iMedia Hidden Image Map Links
Kay Schnewerk's 4iMedia.com is a German PR agency with clients from all walks of life, including (according to 4iMedia) the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
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Date: 2007-01-09

Improving eCommerce Product Findability
On both ecommerce and shopping comparison sites, users can find products in two different ways: searching and browsing.
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Date: 2007-01-09

Interim Management: Increasingly Delivering Strategic Change
With a requirement for greater delivery in ever shorter timescales, under increased shareholder pressure and the continual impact of new technology, the life of the Chief Executive isn't an easy one.
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Date: 2007-01-08

Managing the Workforce of Tomorrow
If you are in a leadership position today, here are ten ideas to help you successfully lead the newest generation of workers-Millennials or Gen X. They are different and here is why.
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Date: 2007-01-08

Vital Keys To Writing A Sales Letter
Effective sales letter writing skills are imperative for the web business owner or entrepreneur.
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Date: 2007-01-08

Sales Management w/ Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 is a comprehensive customer relationship management software package that helps businesses to improve all aspects of customer service and improve marketing and sales performance.
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Date: 2007-01-08

Simple Tool for Website Monitoring
For quite a while now, I have needed a simple website monitoring tool that would check the uptime of my websites.
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Date: 2007-01-08

Common Language Equates to Common Goals
Over at Dark Reading, Dr. Chris Pierson an attorney with Lewis and Roca discuses the impacts of not being able to communicate between business, security, IT, and others within the company.
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Date: 2007-01-08

Cisco CCNP / BSCI: IPv6 Leading Zero Compression
The BSCI exam and CCNP certification requires that you be well versed in the basics of IP Version 6, or IPv6.
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Date: 2007-01-05

ASP.NET: Parse Controls Dynamically
Most of the primitive types in the CLR have a Parse method that takes a string and parses it into its own data type.
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Date: 2007-01-05

Cancel Flash Requests with JavaScript
Internet Explorer can only make 2 connections at a time, which means that only two elements can be loaded while the rest is queued up.
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Date: 2007-01-05

The Create GUID menu item is back
The Visual Studio 2005 launch improved so many things from older versions - some big and some small.
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Date: 2007-01-05

Turning Leads Into Customers With CRM
In order to turn leads into customers, you need to understand exactly what the customers want and rapidly set the wheels turning to provide what is wanted in the minimum of time.
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Date: 2007-01-05

Developing Countries Breeding Grounds for Open Source
Red Herring's Falguni Bhuta predicts "More (Open Source) momentum in developing countries":
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Date: 2007-01-05

Leveraging Sales Compensation to Drive Sales Performance
Sales executives have long embraced the vision of leveraging incentive compensation to drive performance within their sales teams.
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Date: 2007-01-04

CRM Training - Essential for Success
Imagine yourself wanting to run an airline company - a budding Freddy Laker. What do you need?
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Date: 2007-01-04

A Balance Between HR and Risk Management?
Human Resources Directors are often charged with hiring employees, ensuring that the employee is properly trained, and delivering the bad news when the employee is not working out.
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Date: 2007-01-04

Maintain Customer Attention Span
With customer attention span becoming shorter and shorter, e-commerce businesses and small online entrepreneurs alike are looking for creative and innovative ways to capture their audience more than ever.
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Date: 2007-01-04

Review: Google Comments Beta
While browsing Google Labs, I noticed new Firefox extensions.
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Date: 2007-01-04

Principles for SEO Success
There was a great post by Andy Beal about Five Secret Strategies to Add $1M in Revenue to your Interactive Marketing Agency in 2007.
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Date: 2007-01-04

C#: Realtime Currency Exchange Class
Soon, I'm facing a new project where the need for up-to-date currency exchanges is crucial.
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Date: 2007-01-04

Is IP Your Most Cost Effective Choice?
Too often a business assumes that IP based solutions are the best choice to satisfy their communication requirements.
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Date: 2007-01-04

Employee Turnover and Your Business Profitability
It is interesting that for all the charts and graphs displayed at meetings that you have attended t hat never once have you ever seen a graph of the true and major cost of "employee turnover".
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Date: 2007-01-03

Consuming RSS Feeds With ColdFusion
ColdFusion doesn't seem to get the respect it deserves amongst the dedicated Java or .NET or even PHP development circles, but having worked in all of those environments, I'd like to state for the record, that completing a large scale development project AHEAD of schedule, keeping your Business Managers and Projects Managers happy, and let's not forget the most important of all...
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Date: 2007-01-03

Software Test Automation and Strategy
Companies are turning to automated testing tools more often than ever before to ensure that their applications are working properly prior to deployment.
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Date: 2007-01-03

Navigating Through the Online Trading Marketplace
"Online stock trading" has seen a recent boom since the inception of T.D.Waterhouse Online ETrade etc. Since then there has been a host of online web applications that provide information for "online stock trading".
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Date: 2007-01-03

Changing Root Bridge Election Results
Your BCMSN and CCNP studies will include mastering the details of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
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Date: 2007-01-03

MySQL Optimization Tips
Every programmer loves to optimize, even when we know we shouldn't.
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Date: 2007-01-03

CEO Earnings Raised in the Last Decade
The last studies and figures show that the gap between the pay of a FTSE 100 company's chief executive and that of a regular worker has widened to its highest level this decade.
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Communication Technologies To Supplement Email
Every business relies on effective communication with its customers.
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Date: 2007-01-03

Email Marketing: The Plan or the Trash Can
There's no doubt that email marketing has gotten a bum rap from abusive spammers. Several thoughts such as long prison sentences for wide scale spammers instantly come to mind in a vague jumble when this practice is mentioned.
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Web Content Management and Enhancing Your Business Online
It is hard to imagine a world without e-commerce nowadays, and more and more people are trying their hand at creating websites and earning money online.
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Date: 2007-01-02

The Career Networking Bandwagon
Networking for your job advancement in your career development path offers big benefits and outstanding career employment advancement opportunities that in most cases would never come your way otherwise.
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Date: 2007-01-02

Building a Strong Relationship With Your Bulk Email List
Creating Bulk Email List
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Java and Open Source
In November, Sun Microsystems moved to "open source" status for Java, after a decade of maintaining proprietary status for the portable programming language.
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Data Saving in Case of Browser Crashes
So a few days ago I posted a question on the BlogCFC blog about whether I should add "crash protection" to the BlogCFC entry editor.
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Date: 2007-01-02

Web Designers: Succeeding Beyond Online
The field of Web Design is one of the most rapidly growing areas in the world of commerce.
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Choosing the Right Project Management Software
Project management continues to become an important and popular topic today. This is understandable because project management done correctly will help an organization get better at what it does, and make it more competitive.
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ASP.NET 2.0: Health Monitoring
The ASP.NET 2.0 provider model has once again amazed me.
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PHP Development Becoming Increasingly Popular
PHP simply refers to Hypertext Preprocessor and is becoming quite popular due to the wide nature of functions that it can be used for.
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Accessibility: Why it is Easy
Anti-discrimination legislation did not happen overnight.
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Insider Threats
Organizations in many ways contribute the actions of their employees.
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