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How To Choose The Correct Web Developer
If you were to poll a hundred serious business owners on the street and ask them if a website was a crucial part of starting a business, at least ninety would probably say it is. Yet, if you polled the same hundred people and asked what resources they put into their website, you would probably be shocked with the results.
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Date: 2010-11-30
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Mount Mac and Windows Filesystems in Linux
As most offices are mixed platform environments these days, with more Apple products and Linux desktops co-existing with Windows boxes, there was a time when converter applications had to translate files one by one into a format, understandable to each respective system.
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Date: 2010-11-30
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Tainted Perl: For Your Dirtiest Input
When writing a program that relies on data coming from outside sources, it is always a good idea to place checks on your data to make sure that there is no funny business going on. There are various ways of doing this, and a good programmer knows to add them in. There is always room for improvement though, and everyone makes mistakes. One thing you can do to ensure that no bad data is getting through to your system is to run your perl program in Taint Mode.
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Date: 2010-11-30
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Does Google Really Care About Small Businesses?
I have been thinking a lot lately about how it seems that Google just doesn't get how to speak to the SMB's of the world. I wondered in my own little mind why they wouldn't want to reach out and speak the language of the SMB so they could tap into the great elusive market the size of the SMB space.
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Date: 2010-11-29
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Utilize Holiday Savings to Boost Your Storage
Friday marked the transition into full blown holiday shopping across the United States. Dubbed Black Friday for its common push of businesses' bottom line from red into black (loss into profit), electronics are often the focus of deals that send groves of people out into the early morning hours battling for these good deals.
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Date: 2010-11-29
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Using The Best Possible Medium For Your Website
Although it will take awhile before your online business becomes the most sought after site on the Web, doing SEO is quite easy because of its basic principle, which is to promote website visibility in the SERPs. Yet it is also easy to screw things up and blow thousands of dollars.
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Date: 2010-11-24
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How To Burn an ISO Image Using Nero
In a Windows environment, it is sometimes impossible to burn an ISO image using the tools that Microsoft has provided you. To accomplish this, the user will need download and install third-party software so that they can easily perform this task. In this tutorial, I will be using the commonly known CD-burning software called Nero.
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Date: 2010-11-23
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Understanding CRM From A Social Standpoint
If you put a consultant, an analyst, a vendor, and an end user client together in the same room and ask them to explain or discuss social CRM or social business (or pretty much anything else), you will get very different answers and explanations. Nothing is ever one-sided so why bother trying to look at things from one perspective?
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Date: 2010-11-23
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How To Take Criticism On Your Blog
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Harry S. Truman. It's been a funny old week in social media. The natives are getting restless and angry. People are questioning more, and accepting less. This is a good thing.
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Date: 2010-11-23
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Content Management System Selection Tips
Making a complex decision can be great, as it allows a person (or company) to take pride in reaching the best possible solution. Or it can be awful, since considering tons of factors can be difficult. A new guide provides advice on how to make the process easier when it comes to picking a content management system.
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Date: 2010-11-23
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How To Query a Section of a Table
I recently needed to write a query that would take only certain rows from a table and run a query against those specific rows. I tried JOINs and sub-queries, but nothing quite worked. It was then that one of my more SQL-savvy coworkers introduced me to the idea of a VIEW.
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Date: 2010-11-23
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The New Enterprise Security Model: Ninjas > Knights
The BBC recently posted an interesting article about the evolution of Enterprise Security. The author, Tim Weber, equates the traditional style of enterprise security to castle walls and moats, or, as I like to call it, the Knight style security. Weber touches on various reasons why the Knights are no longer sufficient in protecting the kingdom. In the end, Weber suggests that a more stealthy, portable approach to security: Ninjas.
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Date: 2010-11-22
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Buzz Continues To Mount For Sketch-A-Search
Imagine a world where you can simply picture the food you're craving and have it appear before your eyes. Technology like this, while vividly depicted in shows like Star Trek and the Jetsons, has been tragically absent in the non-fiction world; however, we're getting a lot closer. The search engines may well be doing more than any other group to create real-world "replicators."
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Date: 2010-11-19
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Developers Get Excited For Yahoo's Sketch-A-Search
Imagine a world where you can simply picture the food you're craving and have it appear before your eyes. Technology like this, while vividly depicted in shows like Star Trek and the Jetsons, has been tragically absent in the non-fiction world; however, we're getting a lot closer. The search engines may well be doing more than any other group to create real-world "replicators."
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Date: 2010-11-19
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BBC Warns ISPs Against Broadband Throttling
UK ISPs that try to limit users' download speeds may come up against the largest broadcaster in the world. The BBC warned ISPs this week that it could show individuals a sort of traffic light, allowing them to see - and presumably object - when traffic was being throttled.
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Date: 2010-11-19
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Writing a Quality Stub Method
When writing a program of any size, it is always a good idea to write incrementally. What I mean is that you want to write one piece of code and test it till you work out all the bugs. Then once it works the way it's supposed to, you add more code to it and test that section. Continuing in this fashion will eventually get you a complete program with minimum bugs in it.
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Date: 2010-11-18
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Know Your Role (and Commands)
"I know this System Administrator. They are always busy. Their company won't cough up the necessary funds to get them any help, and thus they are supporting a network and user base way above and beyond their means.
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Date: 2010-11-18
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Red Hat Unleashes RHEL 6
Last week the newest iteration of the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) was released. RHEL 6, codename 'Santiago', is the first major upgrade of this operating system in over three years, and is definitely looking towards the future of computing.
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Date: 2010-11-17
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How Does Open Source Get Paid?
It always seems like a question that could have multiple answers. And it is actually true that the question of ‘Who really pays for Open Source Software?' does not comprise of just one answer, in that there is not just one source of revenue for Open Source. It really is a tough task to track the fund flow for Open Source Software, especially when it is available at zero cost and when it cannot be sold.
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Date: 2010-11-16
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Why You May Want To Wait On HTML5 For Your Website
HTML5 is the latest Hypertext Markup Language form that has become quite popular in such a short time. Modern browsers are now beginning to support HTML5 rendering without having any problems. A rival of the Adobe Flash, it is commonly used in smart phone browsers (like the iPhone) and particular websites.
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Date: 2010-11-16
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Is HTML5 Ready To Increase Your SEO Ranking?
HTML5 is the latest Hypertext Markup Language form that has become quite popular in such a short time. Modern browsers are now beginning to support HTML5 rendering without having any problems. A rival of the Adobe Flash, it is commonly used in smart phone browsers (like the iPhone) and particular websites.
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Date: 2010-11-16
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Improved Exception Handling in Perl 5
Exception handling, or simply error handling, in Perl 5 has always been a matter of using eval on statements and then using conditional statements to check special variables for any possible error codes and responding appropriately. Many pitfalls exist in in this method including the scope of the special variables or their state, and the ancillary code can make readability and maintenance more troublesome.
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Date: 2010-11-16
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Protecting Yourself From Security Risks
Strict Transport Security is a great solution to protecting against Firesheep. Now ultimately the vulnerable website is supposed to fix this issue on their side. But, let's not wait around for them. Let's fix it on our side and protect our traffic now.
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Date: 2010-11-15
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Keeping Your Site Successful Through Search Changes
The little guy often loses. As market niches get saturated, the winners are typically those with the deepest pockets. Up until the last few years, the little guy has been able to prosper with SEO. The little guy didn't face much competition from big companies, because the big companies didn't get SEO. However, Google's current algorithmns and corporate strategy often have the side effect of benefiting large companies.
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Date: 2010-11-12
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How To Prosper Through Changes In SEO
The little guy often loses. As market niches get saturated, the winners are typically those with the deepest pockets. Up until the last few years, the little guy has been able to prosper with SEO. The little guy didn't face much competition from big companies, because the big companies didn't get SEO. However, Google's current algorithmns and corporate strategy often have the side effect of benefiting large companies.
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Date: 2010-11-12
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Cost Top Concern For Supply Chain Management
A majority of industrial companies still see cost as their main priotiy when managing supplychains, despite emerging evidence that excessive focus on cost has damged relationships, and that new approaches to supply chain management are gaining hold among leaders in the field, according to a recent survey from KPMG International.
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Date: 2010-11-12
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Fedora 14 Rolls Out New Tools for Developers
Fedora, the free Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, is now in its fourteenth release and there are a lot of new goodies for people who choose it for development purposes. Fedora has always been known as a Linux distro for work, not necessarily for home use. This is seen in its main purpose, to polish the edges and make improvements for its sponsor's primary project, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Date: 2010-11-11
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IT White Papers May Need Spicing Up
Every day, different news outlets relay about the same facts about the same stories, but based on presentation styles, people have strong preferences. This may be a lesson for professionals who deal in white papers (and especially technical white papers), as making things interesting can pay off.
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Date: 2010-11-11
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JooJoo Tablet Down But Not Out
Nobody would remember anything unless and until there is enough hype hovering around it. Something very similar happened with Fusion Garage's product named JooJoo. A tablet computer that was launched before Apple's iPad; yet JooJoo did not receive much of the accolades from either the media or the consumer public.
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Date: 2010-11-10
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Manipulating Time in your MySQL Tables
In the databases I have used, I have found two major schools of thought when it comes to storing dates in tables. There will either be a string like date, listed out in year-month-day hour-minute-second format, or there will be a timestamp. For those who don't know, a timestamp is usually just the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970). One big advantage is that the timestamp is the same regardless of timezone or daylight savings time. Let's look at how we can manipulate timestamps to our advantage.
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Date: 2010-11-09
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When Will The Social Media Failures Emerge?
Today, social media is like a soccer league for seven year-olds: everyone gets a trophy. The vast majority of press coverage and conversations around social media centers around the fact that businesses are DOING social media, not necessarily doing it EFFECTIVELY.
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Date: 2010-11-08
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Turning Bad SEO Into Strong Success
Over the last dozen plus years, unscrupulous SEO's have given the entire search engine optimization industry a bad rep. It seems like every few months some high profile person in the Internet world says something about how SEO is snake oil, sending ripples throughout the SEO community.
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Date: 2010-11-05
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How To Rename Files On An XML Data Map
I have a folder full of files which are named with four digits and a file extension e.g. 0312.file and an XML-file describing the contents of these files. I am trying to do a shell scipt that will create folders and rename these files according to the xml, but I don't know how?
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Date: 2010-11-05
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Using An XML Data Map To Rename Files
I have a folder full of files which are named with four digits and a file extension e.g. 0312.file and an XML-file describing the contents of these files. I am trying to do a shell scipt that will create folders and rename these files according to the xml, but I don't know how?
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Date: 2010-11-05
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AT&T Looking To Set Up Health ISPs
The health industry is looking to make huge advancements in its networking infrastructure within the next few years. The NHIN (Nationwide Health Information Network) is going to be expanding, and AT&T looks to be getting in on the action. Becoming a Health ISP isn't an easy task. There are many factors to consider; the most important is finding markets where electronic health services are needed.
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Date: 2010-11-05
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ArcMail Focuses On SMBs With VAR Program
ArcMail Technology, a provider of email archiving and email management appliances, has introduced a new value-added reseller (VAR) program designed to further support VARs in the sales, marketing and training of ArcMail email archiving and management solutions.
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Date: 2010-11-05
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Creating And Reinventing Your Marketing Wheel
This is the time of year that organizations are beginning to plan and allocate their marketing budgets for the following financial year. With Western economies climbing out of a recession, marketing executives are faced with tougher marketing allocation decisions into 2011.
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Date: 2010-11-04
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Where To Re-Allocate Your Marketing Budget
This is the time of year that organizations are beginning to plan and allocate their marketing budgets for the following financial year. With Western economies climbing out of a recession, marketing executives are faced with tougher marketing allocation decisions into 2011.
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Date: 2010-11-04
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Cortex Offers Healthcare Providers A Focused Enterprise 2.0
The healthcare industry is one where increased knowledge sharing of best practices will benefit all involved. This is certainly one way to drive health care costs down while improving service that any one should agree with. I recently spoke with David Beyer whose company, Cortex, is providing a collaboration solution targeted specifically at this need. David mentioned that since most healthcare competition is only at the local level, knowledge sharing of best practices at the national and global level is likely to occur.
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Date: 2010-11-04
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Social Media Plus Email Marketing
Remember, the goal isn't to be good at social media. The goal is to be good at business because of social media. Here's one of the best ways to live that creed. Proactively use your social outposts to drive behavior among your current and prospective customers that has a higher value than just a one click "follow" or "like."
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Date: 2010-11-04
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Definition of Preprocessor Commands
Everyone uses preprocessor commands in C and C++. There is no way to get around it. Take for example the most basic of all programs, the introduction to programming, the "Hello World" program. Unless you start with #include , you're not going to get very far.
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Date: 2010-11-04
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Auto-Optimize Websites, Google's mod_pagespeed for Apache
The classic performance measure of a webpage, its load-time, is ever more pertinent in the age of complex web applications. The myriad of resources "mashed" together increases the rendering speed of the page, and the user experience suffers. Google in an on-going effort to make the web more usable and faster, promoted its profiling tool, a Page Speed plugin and in their Webmaster Tools, to help identify parts of the page that can be optimized to increase the rendering speed.
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Date: 2010-11-04
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Must Have iPhone Gaming Apps
Alright Dave, come clean. I've seen you at a meetup playing a game on your iPhone 4, but I've never known what games you enjoy. I know from your Facebook updates that you're a pretty serious gamer, so what do you find appealing and worth playing?
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Date: 2010-11-02
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Optimizing Your Top Experience
For a long time after I began working in a Unix environment, I was using the top command right out of the box, because that was all I knew. I knew that I could get my machine's load average and memory usage, and other information about running processes, but that was it.
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Date: 2010-11-02
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An Alternative to LWP and LWP::Parallel
The benefit of using a Perl library is that you can instantly tap the knowledge and experience of one or more programmers who have already sought out and accomplished what you wish to harness from a given library. However, when utilizing an unmaintained library, you often run into new problems that have arisen since the library was maintained.
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Date: 2010-11-02
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IT Professionals Express Wavering Job Satisfaction In Survey
New data shows that the average IT professional doesn't have to head straight from work to a soup kitchen to surfing Monster.com at a public library, and that scenario doesn't appear to be in the making. However, it looks like pay raises and opportunities for promotion are rare, and not everyone's thrilled with the current situation.
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Date: 2010-11-02
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Should You Be Your Own SEO Client?
As a long-time in-house SEO, you'd probably expect that I did not consider myself a fool at the time I was doing that. But I have recently gotten that question from a lawyer who wonders if he should do his own SEO, which reminds me of the old joke that a lawyers who represents himself has a fool for a client.
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Date: 2010-11-01
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