When talking to some friends over at the coffee shop, one person asked me to take a look at his laptop (like I have sucker across my forehead). His laptop needed drivers since his DVD drive no longer worked. I tried to explain to the group what a driver was and how it interacted with the other pieces involved. This is something as web developers we have to deal with on a daily basis, explaining to others the technical terminology and concepts that are natural to us. What do they need to understand?
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Yesterday I took a brief look at some websites and applications for organizations in preparation for my talk today with the Lions. Here is what they had to say about it.
Rob Roy is an award winning 28-year veteran of the US Navy with 22 years as an active member and leader of the elite Navy SEALs. He spoke at the Small Business Technology Summit on team leadership. Here are a few pointers he gave that can be applied to the success of your next application development team.
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“Find and Keep Customers for Life,” was the byline for the 2009 Small Business Technology Summit, which I attended on Tuesday, Feb. 3. A number of industry leaders gave presentations on social media, search engine marketing, and web applications. The first presentation I attended was on Search Engine marketing by Network Solutions. Here are my notes and an awesome rap video that sums it up.
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I’m sure this has been going on for a while, but I just became aware of this when the conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, setup the blog readthestimulus.org. Making H.R. 1, “The Economic Stimulus Package” accessible in a very real way. Using a few applications.
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It does take more than one to run a one person show! You may be a solopreneur (someone who is a business of one) i.e. a councilor, web technician, accountant, business coach, yet to be truly successful and keep going when the going gets tough, you need a team of support of many. Let’s list some of the support you may need to run a truly successful business.
It’s almost essential to have the following:
One idea I had was to allow users to have their entire desktops living on external servers. This would allow them to access everything including files and programs from anywhere they had internet access. There are a few Citrix hosts out there, but they generally only support major applications and are fairly expensive.
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