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| EU approves Sun acquisition by Oracle |
Despite some people being nervous about a monopoly in (particularly) the database market - given that Sun owns MySQL - the EU has approved the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
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| favicon |
webBRIEFCASE Toolkit websites can now use a favicon [ More...(click here) ] - which is shown in the browser window and favourites listings.
Simply place a favicon.ico image in your wB_toolkit_local/image folder, and it will be used.
See: Wikipedia for a description of favicons.
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| German government warns against using Internet Explorer |
The German government has warned its citizens against using Internet Explorer in light of recent security attacks against Google.
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| Microsoft Word ban |
An injunction was imposed by a Texan court, on Microsoft's sale or import to the US of versions of Word [ More...(click here) ] which are capable of opening files containing XML.
Microsoft was found to be infringing the 1998 patent (5,787,449) on reading methods in XML documents.
Microsoft must pay damages of $290m (£182m) to Toronto-based I4i.
Microsoft is appealing, but has stated that its new Office 2010 does not have XML reading capability.
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| Add Tradedoubler verification to your webBRIEFCASE Toolkit site |
Tradedoubler requires that publishers [ More...(click here) ] must verify their website using a comment in the HEAD section of the page.
A new Tradedoubler Verification Component has been created. Simply add a record to the Configuration table where the name is site/tradedoubler/verification_code, and the value is the code supplied by Tradedoubler. The Toolkit will do the rest.
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| News article message |
Users can now added messages to news articles. This allows for an article to be discussed. [ More...(click here) ] As ever, the Administrator has the final say regarding whether a message is published.
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| 3G Roaming Broadband |
The mobile phone companies are offering 'FREE' laptops when you sign-up to their mobile broadband service.
Are you getting a good deal? [ More...(click here) ] We have that getting a connection using this service can be difficult. Once you have one, the speed of that connection is far from being described as broadband.
What is your experience?
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| Tips for successful project management |
Most people can do project management, however, try these tips to be even more successful...[ More...(click here) ]
Add repeating reminders to:- Work on the project on a daily basis
- Send a project update (even just a quick e-mail) at least once a week
- Meet with key stakeholders every two weeks (any sooner and there may be no progress to report) - ensure that the budget is reviewed
Other things are to:- Clearly define what is in scope, and what isn't
- Re-use information and tools from existing projects - it will save time
- Use a project control document which contains information you collect as you go along - send this out with your weekly reminder
- Maintain a task list that people feel they can easily contribute to - spreadsheets are good for this, MS Project usually aren't
- Whenever a task is identified - assign one person (only) the responsibility of completing the task, and always push for a delivery date. If you assign more than one person the responsibility, you'll need more effort to get the task completed
- Issue meetings minutes after every meeting, even if there's only one item discussed. This will ensure that people can refer to them later, to see what has been agreed. It also gives the customer the opportunity to correct any mis-communication
- Always fully describe the business and technical requirements
- At the end of each meeting - schedule the next one
- If you need to work on a critical task - book time in your diary to do it.
- Use e-mails to update people, or to contact them when they're not available - not to ask for something. Use the phone more often.
- Find out, know, and follow the procedures - but bend the rules when appropriate
- At the end of the project, do a de-brief. What could have been done better? What was good?
webBRIEFCASE manages successful projects and uses these tips effectively, finding them to be essential.
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| GIMP |
Need an image editor with lots of features, but nowhere near the cost of Adobe Photoshop? Try GIMP.
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| What is LAMP? |
webBRIEFCASE, YorkshireBusinessPages and femaleSOCCER websites run use the webBRIEFCASE Toolkit with runs on the industry standard LAMP platform.
This platform includes...[ More...(click here) ]- Linux operating system
- Apache web server
- MySQL relational database server
- PHP programming language
It has also been proven to work on Windows (WAMP) - but some further modifications are necessary order to release it for Windows.
For more information, see: Wikipedia.
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| New expert mode component |
In order to remove some of the 'clutter' [ More...(click here) ] of buttons on webBRIEFCASE Toolkit pages, a new expert mode component has been created.
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| This year's Tax Return |
On paper by 31 October or online by 31 January? It's your choice.
See: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/index.htm
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| Maxthon |
Internet Explorer is the standard for web browsers, but has a few niggles that can become annoying. Maxthon fixes some of those niggles.
Try it out at www.maxthon.com.
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| webBRIEFCASE Toolkit v1.4 is available |
webBRIEFCASE Toolkit v1.4 is the latest stable version. For more information contact us.
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