Economy didn’t take a bite out of Apple
Jan0
Article posted on msn.com stated that Apple earned $1.78 per share on revenue of $10.2 billion. Analysts had forecast only a profit of $1.40 per share. Apple has lowered their forcast on revenue for the next quarter to $7 billion because of the economy and lack of interest from buyers. Technology companies should take notice someone in the profession knows what they are doing. I have to admit I have been looking into getting an iphone if it wasn’t for the fact you had to go with AT&T.
Outlook not displaying images
Jan8
If you are having trouble seeing embed images in your outlook emails here could be the issue. Outlook uses a temporary folder to cache images and files that are sent with emails. Sometimes this folder gets corrapted and the only way to fix it is to clean out the directory with the cached items.
To find out where the folder is
Heartland Payment Systems Credit Card Breach
Jan1
According to foxnews.com and also reported on the companies website, one of the largest credit card breaches ever reported. A New Jersey based company, Heartland Payment Systems Inc, reported on 1/20/2009 that hackers got access to their network and had access to the 100 million credit card transactions they process monthly.
Heartland Payment Systems has created a website just about this problem. The website can be
Hanging around
Jan2
This has nothing to do with business or technology, I just found it so amusing that I just had to post a link to this article. Me and some guys at work have laughed at this for a week. The Smoking Gun shows how not to ride a ski lift.
Circuit City Closing its doors….FINALLY!
Jan0
The news is out Circuit City is going out of business. According to www.bizjournal.com Circuit City is asking judge to allow them close down its remaining 567 stores. I say finally! I use to shop at Circuit City all the time mostly because that was the only electronic store available in my area. Finally best buy moved in and now that is where I go if I don’t order it from the web. Evertime I went in ciruit city
Leadership and Management
Jan0
Most people would assume that management and leadership have the same definition. After examining several articles and through my own life experiences I would disagree and have to say that leadership and management are two different roles. You can be a leader and a manager but being both requires a special set of skills. A leader will inspire people by example and will create followers from their example. Whereas a manager will develop idea’s and task and assign those to others to complete on time.
A leader will most likely be natural born. They will have to posse great people skills, though difficult to teach it is possible. With that said, I think it would be more likely to have a leader become a good mananger than it would be to have a manager become a good leader.
A good manager should realize their weakness and will look for qualified people to help in the areas they are weak. For example, if a manager is not a strong leader but is a great planner and speaker then they should look for employee’s that will help fill in the area of leadership.
This is the main topic of discuss in my first class as I am going through a MBA program. Before this I never thought about a manager and a leader being different roles, but now that I have reflected back on my experiences and read about other theories and ideas I can definitly understand how the roles are different yet share a common bond as well.
Prototype JS JSON String from TSQL view
Jan0
Ran into a problem today that I found rather perplexing. I was pulling a json string that was generated from a storedprocedure in MsSQL 2005. One of the data columns being returned is a rounded decimal. If you execute the procedure in enterprise manager the value is correct something like 2.899. But when you look at the value in the JSON string it is coming out like 2.89736262673. Any ideas on what would be causing this? I haven’t found the cause of the problem yet, when I do I will post the solution here.
TYPO3 4.2.3 Add 3 images with individual links in a row
Jan2
Select your page and create new page content of type Images only. Once you are on the properties of the content type Images only select the tab called media as shown below.
In the first section, images, you add your images into the box in the order you want them to be displayed. Then in the position section select the number of columns to be the same as the number of images you want to put in a row. Next was the tricky part for me but I finally figured out that in the image links section you can put a comma delimited list of the page ids in typo3 that you want the images to link to or a url if the link is to an external site. The order of the comma delimited list will match the order you have put the images in images section.
The output in your content will look like the following:
A new start, a new blog
Jan1
I am getting a new start on life, at least that’s the way I am seeing it. In the middle of all the economic chaos God has blessed my wife and I with the ability to be able to sell our house and move closer to the center of the tri cities. On top of this I will be starting a sixteen month MBA program at King College where I work .
Since I won’t be busy enough working full-time and attending the MBA program full-time, I figured why not restart your blog! In reality I thought this would be a great place for me to explain and discuss ideas and theories I will be discovering while attending the business program, but at the same time I don’t want to completely focus on business and economics and leave out my passion for technology, particularly programming and design. You might not think that business and programming go together but they go together like peanut butter and jelly.
I don’t know exactly what business topics we will be discussed yet but as I continue my journey through the MBA I am sure there will be many topics of interest. As for the programming/technology I know I will be posting hints and helpful tips on TYPO3. I am trying to convience the powers to be that this would be a wise system to convert our websites too so I have dove in head first over this christmas break to see how the system works and what it will take to convert our current websites to work in the TYPO3 system.
Please feel free to comment and ask questions on this blog. I will do my best to answer and comment back but as you can see my time might be limited.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy.
