Archive for the ‘Business Services’ Category
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Microsoft's latest foray into things that might possibly have a small chance of not sucking is their new MOSS offering - Sharepoint as a service. Now I know what you're thinking: has That Software Guy lost his mind? Actually using a low quality, buggy, insecure Microsoft service?
Relax. ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Many moons ago, when That Software Guy was consulting full-time, he was contractually required to carry a large general liability policy (in case someone tripped over his briefcase or whatever). I got the policy from a fellow named Steve Arnold from TechInsurance. When I went back to W-2 ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
You know protecting your data is critical, so you take care to create backups. Thumb drives. Burning CDs. External hard drives.
These are all good things - but do you have an offsite backup strategy to compliment them? Offsite backup gives you that extra bit of peace of mind that even ...
Posted in Tools, Business Services | 1 Comment »
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
A client of mine was looking for some OSCommerce to Zen Cart conversion work - something I don't do, but I wanted to at least give him a bit of guidance through the process.
Hiring a Zen Cart consultant is pretty much like hiring any other consultant; you want to look ...
Posted in How-To, Business Services | 3 Comments »
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
I came across a famous story the other day - I'm sure you've read it before:
"Nikola Tesla visited Henry Ford at his factory, which was having some
kind of difficulty. Ford asked Tesla if he could help identify the
problem area. Tesla walked up to a wall of boilerplate and made ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Every once in a while some jerk sends an invoice which is really a solicitation for an overpriced service. Be on your guard for "bills" like this. Ditto for "domain renewal" invoices - be sure to read them carefully.
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Web King Amazon.com has just announced the Amazon All Business Center, which includes WebStore by Amazon, an interesting looking hosted e-commerce application. The pricing on WebStore is $59.99/month, and you can list your own items which you will fulfill along side Amazon.com items that they fulfill. ...
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