Web security is a concern that every company or individual with a web site should have. This post provides some information about basic web security and items you should think about the next time you build a new web site.
A recent study by Employers indicates that over half of small businesses believe in social media as an important marketing tool. Yet, only 16% of those polled use their social media accounts to communicate directly with customers. So, what are they actually doing with social media? The average small business uses it to promote, much in the same way they use ads, direct mail and other forms of traditional …
I have the opportunity to meet with a lot of software and technology folks due to my job. When we get together we speak about many things. Life, family, work, pets, sports,… you name it. Eventually though, we start to talk geek. We talk software. We talk about the process and work flow problems that we have in our jobs and what we have been doing to solve it. …
From Getting Real – 37 Signals A lot of small companies make the mistake of trying to act big. It’s as if they perceive their size as a weakness that needs to be covered up. Too bad. Being small can actually be a huge advantage, especially when it comes to communication. Small companies enjoy fewer formalities, less bureaucracy, and more freedom. Smaller companies are closer to the customer by default. …
If you are one of those people who remember everything from your high school trigonometry class, then you don’t need to read this, but for the rest of us who only remember that SIN and COSINE had something to do with circles and a thing called PI , then this should be helpful. For a recent project I had to create an animated rotator in Javascript that needed to …
I remember everything about the day when the stock market dropped 700+ points. I couldn’t believe it. I thought that it could not happen again. Well, it did… a few more times. Panic was spreading like a virus in one of those movies that stars a monkey. It was chaos. Companies were cutting budgets, stopping projects, and doing everything they could to save cash. People were being sent to …
Need your data organized into a good looking PDF report? Many websites now include reporting pieces, or places where you may just want data exported… and what better format than a PDF, which is a widely accepted format for documents to be opened and viewed on any operating system thanks to Adobe Reader. But, how do these PDF reports get made? iTextSharp is a free tool that can be …
