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Tech Jobs Sector Expected To Expand
Chief technology officers who sometimes feel that having third and fourth arms grafted on is almost a necessity can take some comfort from conclusions reached by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Department of Labor found that more hiring should occur in the industry.
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Date: 2010-08-31
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Prevent MySQL Injection Attacks
What this type of attack entails is a malicious user attempting to insert their own MySQL code into your database without you knowing about it. This is done through forms. Take for example, a log in form, where you type in your username. A typical statement to verify this action would be something like this.
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Date: 2010-08-31
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Using Clear Signals To Increase Your SEO Rank
Every day, people send out thousands of conscious and subconscious signals, whether they are indicating a right turn, raising their hands, or crossing their arms. Signals can be interpreted positively or negatively, or they can be completely misinterpreted with unfortunate results.
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Date: 2010-08-30
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Making Your Site Easier For Search Engines
Every day, people send out thousands of conscious and subconscious signals, whether they are indicating a right turn, raising their hands, or crossing their arms. Signals can be interpreted positively or negatively, or they can be completely misinterpreted with unfortunate results.
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Date: 2010-08-30
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Proactive Pen-testing on a Shoe-string
Networking a machine, regardless of whether or not it is public-facing, means that the computer is allowing remote access to certain ports for certain services. Many personal computers, running either a Unix-like operating system or a Windows-based operating system, have networking and firewall defaults that need to be tightened down.
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Date: 2010-08-30
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How To Select A Successful Domain Name
What's in a name and domain name? Enough that it can mean the difference between success and failure. However, it can also not matter at all, but why would companies put themselves behind the 8-ball with a bad name and domain name right off the bat?
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Date: 2010-08-27
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SEO: 10 Ways to Get Backlinks
Very often clients ask me about "Backlinks" for SEO-that is, links from other sites BACK to yours. The number and quality of links to pages on your site helps determine your Google PageRank, which is Google's system for calculating your site's relevance and importance on a scale of 1 to 10.
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Date: 2010-08-27
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Building Your Site For Your Audience
I remember the first day back at my sophomore year of college. It was the weekend before classes began, and the new students were moving into the dorms. There were cars and trucks all parked out along the street with students unloading furniture, bedding, clothes, and everything else a growing college kid needs to survive in the almost-real world.
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Date: 2010-08-26
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Your Site Must Cater To Your Audience First Then SEO
I remember the first day back at my sophomore year of college. It was the weekend before classes began, and the new students were moving into the dorms. There were cars and trucks all parked out along the street with students unloading furniture, bedding, clothes, and everything else a growing college kid needs to survive in the almost-real world.
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Date: 2010-08-26
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Overriding Operators in C++
When creating custom classes, as is often the case in object-oriented programming, there are two different ways to handle interactions between your class and other objects. You can write methods to handle comparisons or you can override operators with the same code. Doesn't seem to be much of an advantage either way you go.
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Date: 2010-08-26
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Google Launches Enhances Adwords CPC
Google AdWords has now launched an automated bidding feature called Enhanced CPC. This tool will allow marketers to adjust the costs of their Max CPC bid automatically, to increase conversions based on their past conversion record. The new tool also "detects attributes such as the user's location, language settings, browser, and operating system and analyze how these attributes may impact the likelihood of your ad converting" said AdWords.
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Date: 2010-08-25
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Using Proper REL Links On Your Site
For some reason this keeps cropping up, and I thought I would write a small informative guide. I know one major web 2.0 property that recently added rel="dofollow" to links, and there is a massive site doing 40M+ visitors a month which last time I looked was using rel="noindex".
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Date: 2010-08-24
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Understanding The Use of True Meta Directives
For some reason this keeps cropping up, and I thought I would write a small informative guide. I know one major web 2.0 property that recently added rel="dofollow" to links, and there is a massive site doing 40M+ visitors a month which last time I looked was using rel="noindex".
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Date: 2010-08-24
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The MAIN Sub for Perl 6
Perl 6 very well may never fully supersede Perl 5 in the near future because they are engineered differently. Perl 5's maturity in the Unix-like environment make it a different tool compared to the current implementation of Perl 6 running on top of Parrot.
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Date: 2010-08-24
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Green Supply Chains Achieve Positive Results
Going green is all the rage these days, with many environmentalists indicating that the planet will soon be a much less nice and hospitable place if the current pace of resource use and pollution is continued. But it's been proven that there are also solid financial reasons to make supply chains more green.
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Date: 2010-08-20
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Google and Verizon Deal Shows A Schism in Net Neutrality Argument
Google has been one of the largest defenders of net neutrality since the subject has been brought up. Doing so has provided them the reputation of becoming a multi-billion dollar corporation, without receiving the "evil" label that generally comes with it. However, Google has been working with Verizon on a deal which would allow the ISP to provide preferential bandwidth to content providers who would pay for it. This has led to many net neutrality supporters to question Google's true stance on the subject.
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Date: 2010-08-20
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Checking User Behavior By Browser Type
One of the overlooked tools in Google Analytics involves an analysis by browser type. By segmenting out traffic by web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera, you can learn a few things about your demographic as well as your site functionality.
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Date: 2010-08-19
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IE 9 Beta To Exclude XP Users
Next month, the beta version of Internet Explorer 9 will be released to the public, giving many people a chance to see what Microsoft is offering in its race to stay ahead of Firefox and Chrome. Only Windows XP users won't be allowed much of a glimpse, as it turns out XP won't be supported.
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Date: 2010-08-19
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Pulling The Wool Over Your Eyes With Statistics
We get presented with graphs and statistics every day. "Most SEOs think keywords in the title tag is an important ranking factor." "Spending on search to rise by $10b". Ever get that feeling that what you're being presented with sounds plausible, but the conclusion just doesn't make sense?
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Date: 2010-08-18
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How Site Statistics Can Be Very Misleading
We get presented with graphs and statistics every day. "Most SEOs think keywords in the title tag is an important ranking factor." "Spending on search to rise by $10b". Ever get that feeling that what you're being presented with sounds plausible, but the conclusion just doesn't make sense?
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Date: 2010-08-18
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Small iPad Rumors Firm Up
Whether you feel the iPad has revitalized the tablet PC market or given Apple an undeserved near-monopoly, it's looking like a second device will soon come along to have even more of an effect. Reports indicate a smaller iPad will launch in time for the 2010 holiday season.
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Date: 2010-08-18
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Make and Makefiles
When I first learned to program, like many people, I learned in a graphical IDE that did basically everything for me. This is great for beginners who need to focus on learning programming, and not worry with compiling and linking their code manually. In my case, I was learning C so there was a lot going on in the background when I clicked on 'compile' that I was not aware of, until I began coding on a remote Unix machine.
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Date: 2010-08-18
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The IN Thing
Staying in fashion is often a tough proposition. If you're one of the unfortunate ones that do attempt to keep up, you likely end up with an overpriced and overstocked wardrobe. Some fashions, however, never die, and thus can continue to be used at your discretion. Likewise, your database can become stuffed to the seams, and there may be situations where you want to return a result if it matches not only a single value, but also any from a host of values.
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Date: 2010-08-17
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Winners Of 2010 CRM Market Awards Announced
A three-month process that involved dozens of companies has come to a close, and as a result, it's time to honor some of the top organizations (and individuals) in the CRM industry. That's because the winners of the 2010 CRM Market Awards have been announced.
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Date: 2010-08-16
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Follow the Leader: NSA Security Guidance
Most all new workstations and consumer hardware is designed and configured for regular public use. The default configuration is meant for fairly non-technical people. People who forget their administration passwords, people who desire a plug and play experience, and people who want things to work out of the box and problems to be fixed automatically. Unfortunately, this usually requires lackadaisical security policies.
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Date: 2010-08-16
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Reacting Quickly To Take Advantage Of New Opportunities
The always-insightful Adam Needles is running a series of blog poststhis week that summarize the "real state" of B2B demand generation. So far, his main points have been that the role of B2B marketing has expanded to cover the entire buying cycle from initial lead generation through closed deals and that new technology must be accompanied by changes in people, process and content to have an impact. Tomorrow's post will apparently discuss the need to tie marketing efforts to revenue.
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Date: 2010-08-13
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Marketing Flexibility Is More Important Than Optimization
The always-insightful Adam Needles is running a series of blog poststhis week that summarize the "real state" of B2B demand generation. So far, his main points have been that the role of B2B marketing has expanded to cover the entire buying cycle from initial lead generation through closed deals and that new technology must be accompanied by changes in people, process and content to have an impact. Tomorrow's post will apparently discuss the need to tie marketing efforts to revenue.
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Date: 2010-08-13
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Succeeding In The Knowledge Economy Of The 21st Century
Every now and then there is this blog post that, when reading through it, you can't help but embark yourself on a wonderful trip down the memory lane on something that comes so close to your heart that you just keep nodding in agreement and content on how good and thorough it is in describing the state of things.
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Date: 2010-08-12
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Perl in C Part 2
In order to evaluate the output of a perl interpreter within C code, there are two functions which can be used. These are eval_sv and eval_pv. Inside your main function, you must manually declare what would normally be defined in your arguments.
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Date: 2010-08-12
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Should You Cloak Site Links
I often hear people give reasons for cloaking links, but the reasons they give are frequently incomplete, suggesting they are cloaking links purely because they have been told by someone else they should do it.
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Date: 2010-08-11
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KDE 4.5 Released
Yesterday, KDE released versions 4.5 of its various platforms. These releases include over 16,022 fixed bugs and 1,723 new features. Despite 17,000+ changes, nothing will stand out as surprisingly different from KDE 4.4. The KDE team focused on stability and improvement in this release.
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Date: 2010-08-11
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IT Decision Makers Can Learn From SAP's Open Source Adoption Process
SAP, arguably one of the remaining enterprise software vendors to accept and use open source within its products, made news by announcing a broader open source strategy. More importantly, SAP explained how they planned for the greater acceptance of open source components within their projects. Enterprise IT decision makers can learn from SAP's progress along the open source adoption cycle.
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Date: 2010-08-10
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FILE I/O in Perl
An important aspect of Perl is it's ability to read from and write to files in the filesystem. Without this ability, it would be a lot harder to create log files or run search/replace scripts on your files, since there are few other languages that can even come close to Perl's ability to do so.
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Date: 2010-08-10
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The Future of Apps
No one can deny that the original telephone Alexander Graham Bell invented in 1876 has changed significantly. From a luxury item proudly displayed as the centerpiece of the home to something small, portable, and powerful that people keep within arm's reach 24/7, the humble telephone has evolved into a mini personal computer capable of much more than traditional voice phone calls.
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Date: 2010-08-10
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Covering All Aspects Of Enterprise CRM
We've talked about a lot of topics around the Social CRM and Enterprise 2.0 space and I think it's about time we get a bit deeper into both of these areas and explore how they fit together. I get a bit frustrated when I hear people talking about SCRM and E2.0 from the same high level point of view all the time (I'm also guilty of this). So, what I want to do moving forward is really push the envelope. I'm not saying I'm going to be right or wrong but I am hoping that what I write and talk about will make you think differently about both E2.0 and SCRM. Let's take a look at some of the important and interesting things we've covered so far and then build some sort of a future roadmap for what we should cover in the future.
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Date: 2010-08-09
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The Gender Divide in Social Networks
Influence is a controversial topic and its measurement and definition are increasingly scrutinized as social media democratizes one's ability to earn stature and prominence in new online societies. There's a clear delineation between influence and popularity and it's important to understand that in social networks, influence is not derived by the quantity of followers, friends, clicks, or "likes." Nor is it discernible by the frequency of which one participates in their respective communities. While these serve as indicators of influence, they are not necessarily constant factors in its quantification.
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Date: 2010-08-06
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Recovery Act and USDA Boosts US Broadband
The USDA released information concerning 126 new fundings for broadband across the US via the Recovery Act. An encouraging, yet surprising, trend among the various projects being funded is the creation of high-speed, high-bandwidth, fiber-optic networks. These funds given by the USDA are targeted in rural areas, and thus it is interesting that many rural areas will have better broadband in the next few years than many metropolitan areas currently do or will have.
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Date: 2010-08-06
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University Establishes Supply Chain Management Major
Not all college degrees were created equal. Someone with a kinesiology major will have trouble being thought of as anything other than a jock, for example, while law students are respected. But wherever it winds up in that hierarchy, it seems important to report that a university has begun letting students major in supply chain management.
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Date: 2010-08-06
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Have Social Media And CRM Evolved?
I just arrived at the CRM Evolution conference and last night I attended a pre-show meetup where I had a great conversation with Brian Vellmure. Among one of the interesting things we talked about is how he and I (and others) got involved with Social CRM.
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Date: 2010-08-05
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Understanding The Requirements Of SEO
A big part of the agency-client relationship when it comes to SEO involves expectations. This is because we need to make sure that our clients understand that search optimization requires a certain level of commitment and action that may not be found in other advertising initiatives.
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Date: 2010-08-05
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SEO Requires A High Level Of Commitment
A big part of the agency-client relationship when it comes to SEO involves expectations. This is because we need to make sure that our clients understand that search optimization requires a certain level of commitment and action that may not be found in other advertising initiatives.
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Date: 2010-08-05
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Disclosing White Paper Sponsorships
Most people can agree that there's nothing inherently bad about one entity sponsoring another; in terms of research, many expensive studies could never have been conducted without this practice. Think of charity runs and patrons of the arts, too, if you like. But recent events have highlighted the benefits of identifying sponsored white papers.
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Date: 2010-08-05
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Custom VIM settings in a multi-user Environment
Vim is handy text editor, which improves upon the included editor in Unix, vi. With so many plugins and scripts available for VIM, many developers consider this application their number one source for editing and developing code. With all the available customization, vim can be finely tuned to exactly what you need. The ability to finely tune, however, can become a problem when you are sharing a vim instance with other developers.
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Date: 2010-08-04
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Taking An In-depth Look At Ubuntu For Business
Well, let's face the fact that most of the populace on the web actually works on Windows. The rationale of their doing so in verity differs from individual to individual. Sometimes, it's the way how a kid is brought up at schools, and for others, it's the ease of working or may be the sheer ignorance of trying to explore and use something which can be termed as "better".
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Date: 2010-08-03
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How The Creative Commons Relates To WordPress Theme Licenses
I thought for completeness I would throw out some quick notes on the creative commons and how it relates to both GPL and proprietary WordPress theme licenses. I am not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice, and I am trying to make this "non-specific" to any particular theme because it affects users of themes, not just the theme authors.
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Date: 2010-08-03
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Data Integrity with Foreign Keys
In relational database design, we rely on keys in one table to relate to the primary keys of another. The InnoDB engine takes this concept and supplies the Foreign Key constraint to keep our relationships healthy and strong. It's truly a relationship miracle-worker. Eat your heart out, Dr. Phil.
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Date: 2010-08-03
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Evaluating A Network For VoIP Tech
The average company would probably prefer not to equip all of its employees with cell phones. Landlines can represent a nuisance, too, since long distance calls cost a fair amount. Fortunately, VoIP tech can act as a solution, so long as a company's network can handle it.
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Date: 2010-08-02
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