I was quoted in an article over at IT Expert Voice that pooled advice from hardened IT Veterans on the process of rolling out a new OS in a business environment. There’s plenty of great advice on the actual act of a rollout — test-test-test, schedule for downtime, etc. — but obviously the timing of [...]
Read More business support, desktop tips, Microsoft sucks, quoted, tech supportThere’s a new post on the Fwd:Vault blog discussing a new website I found that makes installing and updating the most common desktop software a breeze. Check it out for a review as well as some program suggestions to get started. In blog meta news, I know that comments were broken for a while. That [...]
Read MoreI was reminded today of Office Max’s classic series of commercials set to the tune of Rubberband Man by the Spinners and starring Eddie Steeples who now stars on the television show My Name Is Earl. I absolutely loved these commercials when they came out; you can’t help but dance in your seat with that [...]
Read More for fun, get inspired, marketing, social networkingIt’s a common problem with no single right answer: extract the top domain (e.g. example.com) from a given string, which may or may not be a valid URL. I had need of such functionality recently and found answers around the web lacking. So if you ever “just wanted the domain name” out of a string, [...]
Read More coding theory, crappy coding, php, programming, regular expressions, software developmentAny “decent” website is going to do the following: look pleasant work in most browsers load in a timely fashion present approachable navigation layout These are all the base requirements, as far as I’m concerned. What distinguishes any site from any other is the information it provides, aka the copy (“copy” ~ “text” in the [...]
Read MoreI’ve been keeping up with the release of presenter videos from the Future of Web Apps London 2009 event. If you never read it, or only caught my initial post, you may want to check back on it, as they’ve released 3 or 4 more presentations. Also since Twitter is sporting the fail whale again, [...]
Read MoreI don’t watch professional sports, but I was really glad that I decided to watch NLCS game 4 last night. The Dodgers maintained a lead through the second half of the game, and got the Phillies down to their last out in the bottom of the 9th, with runners on first and second. Jimmy Rollins [...]
Read More get inspired, startupsThe Future of Web Apps conference is so right up my alley it’s almost stupid that I couldn’t attend. Web development with a focus on business: customer service, driving traffic, marketing, sales… It’s essentially the event for geeks who want to go from the basement to the corner office. Fortunately, Ryan Carson and the team [...]
Read More business support, content sharing, customer service, entrepreneur, expo, marketing, software development, usabilityAs you probably heard, President Obama was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. According to the Nobel Prize website, the award was granted to him “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Forget the right/left politics for a second, and just look at the schedule here. Per the Nobel Peace [...]
Read More opineIf you need to change the timezone of a Debian system, your searches will probably tell you to use the tzselect utility. That will only change the timezone for the server temporarily. Use that command and then run this: cat /etc/timezone See how the timezone didn’t change? Left alone, the system will revert to the [...]
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