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The day starts normally. You wake up, drive to work, go to your desk, turn on your computer, take a sip from your coffee, and proceed to check your email. Reminders here, spam there, pictures here, stories there, a couple of games, and some animation...

Business Traction

How to create a profitable business, value for customers, passive income and have a weekend at the beach all at the same time. Definitely a work in progress...

Saving Time and Money Using SAS - by Philip R Holland

Get the most from your SAS software! In this expert collection of strategic and tactical solutions, author Philip Holland shows you how to save time and money by making the most of your SAS software. You'll gain a deeper knowledge of your existing SAS...

P2P File Sharing

Overview of file sharing and program suggestions that will enable users to download muptiple types of files.

E-Waste And What You Can Do About It: by Ladymermaid

Welcome to the electronic age, where even garbage comes with a new and more distinguished title, welcome to the "e-waste" era. We are a generation in love with our abundance of new, and constantly improving, technological gizmos and gadgets. As the...

Recommended Books

Mr. Spolsky is by far the best resource for anyone interested in starting a MicroISV.

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Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent by Joel Spolsky

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Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity by Joel Spolsky

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User Interface Design for Programmers by Joel Spolsky

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The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky by Joel Spolsky

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More Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky

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Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality by Bob Walsh

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Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them by Bob Walsh

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influencing elections, getting hired, growing market share, and having funto the tune of 8,000 new bloggers a day.

Clear Blogging sets out to answer in nontechnical terms what blogging has to offer and why and how you should blog. If youve never read a blog, but you keep hearing that term on the news, Clear Blogging will show you why blogging has shaken up mainstream media, and how a blogger can end up on CNN. If youre just starting to read blogs, Clear Blogging is your native guide to the blogo...

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Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Expert's Voice) by Eric Sink

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston

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In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters, Second Edition by Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman

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Question of the month: July & August 208

I'm late, again.

Quite honestly, it needs to be easier to add modules like this... that's how lazy I am.

No, I'm just kidding, it's just a lack of time.

So it is almost the end of July. August is right around the corner... so, 2 month question.

Is the market for web consulting in your town tainted by individuals that really shouldn't be offering web services? (Did that network consulting firm that was more hardware decide they too could produce quality sites?)

Question of the Month(s) May & June 2008

Where did May go? I can't believe I'm this late. To avoid that for August, I've decided to make this question count for both months.

Are you still using a text editor to control your website's content, or do you use a Content Management System like the award winning Joomla! CMS?

Question of the Month: April 2008

So, as fate would have it, I have a new employer and have been blessed with the opportunity to introduce Linux to the environment. My first implementation will be using the Squid Proxy Cache on Linux.

So, my question is, are you using Linux in your IT shop?

Question of the Month: March 2008

So, it's March already and look at me getting the monthly question out pretty much on time.

Everyone pretty much hates going through the interview process when trying to get a new job. What is the best way to relax one's self before an interview?

I think the best way to stay relaxed for any interview, is to probably interview for jobs on an on going basis. (Unless, of course, you've found that elusive best-job-of-your-life job). If you can get yourself maybe 1 interview every 3 months, eventually you'll be pretty darn well prepared for any question you could be asked, and who knows, maybe you'll even get an offer.

Any other ways to stay relaxed?

Question of the month: February 2008

Time is seriously moving too fast. It's the 10th of February already.

Well, today's question is about Open Source.

Scenario:

You're working in a company with 800+ employees and would like to implement an Open Source solution. Of course, legal needs to have their input. Their response is "Sorry, no can do. We don't want to risk losing our data because of some rogue algorithm that sends our data out into the public. Were this to happen, we wouldn't be able to sue anyone." (in not so many words, this is what one legal department told a group hoping to implement SugarCRM).

Other than the fact that it shows how sue-happy this nation is, what is wrong with legal's statement?

I don't know who said it, but truer words have never been spoken - "If there were no lawyers, there would be no need for lawyers."

Question of the Month: January 2008

Why is it taking me so long to get my startup off the ground?

Anyone?

Ok, ok, I'll change the question, it's to self centric and nobody gives a crap about my attempt to start a startup.

Instead I'll ask the following:

I found myself in the middle of a discussion between to individuals that both had the same answer to the following question:

If you had a choice to hire 2 mediocre candidates or 1 star candidate, which would you hire?

They both chose to hire 2 mediocre candidates. I was completely shocked. My answer would have been to hire the 1 star (of course, I kept quiet). They argued that with 2 candidates you had redundancy through cross training and they could learn (which I took to mean could become a star).

What would you do and why?

Question of the Month: December

How long should one stay with a company that fails to show any loyalty to its employees?

Question of the month: November

Once again, a little bit late on this one.

This months question:

How many people are employed at your company?

Question of the Month: October

I'm a little late on this one. So do forgive...

This months question is:

Does your company's IT department hide behind the "knowledge gap"? And do you call them on it?

Question of the Month: September Question

Hmm, not too popular, I guess.

This months question is the following:

Have you ever been through a round of layoffs? If so, what company and what can you say about the experience?

Question of the Month: July Question

Foul Language in the Workplace I have to admit that I'm one of those people that finds the need to use foul language to express myself in the workplace sometimes. Not all the time, but sometimes.

Is it wrong to use foul language at work? What do you think?