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No, it’s not Jenny’s phone number. Nor is it the social security number of that guy who is always advertising his identity theft protection services on TV and radio. They are actually the numbers of two United States Patents which were issued
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Recently I was asked to be a part of the Silverlight TAP program with Microsoft. I’ve always enjoyed working with new technologies, especially those that help visualize data and improve the development process for the User Interface layer, and so
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As promised in my previous post, the webinar I participated in with Tealeaf is now posted and I've included it below. Enjoy! View Video Format: wmv Duration: 56:00
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Hello, all. I'm a long time reader, first time poster here. When you live in West Michigan and it's the middle of January, you start trying to dream up ways to get out of the frozen tundra and go somewhere warm and sunny. Fortunately for me, I
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Well, there seems to be quite a buzz in the IT industry about UCC (Unified Communications & Collaboration). What is UCC? Well, that depends on who you ask. What you will typically find is a vision of consolidation of most of your communications channels
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There are a lot of pieces to the proposal for Quixtar's implementation of Web 2.0. In that design are several key infrastructure upgrades which need to come first to provide the foundation for new Web 2.0 applications. What I am talking about is a
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So the redesigned Quixtar.com site has been up for roughly four months now. By this time hopefully you've gotten accustomed to the new look and feel, the layout changes and to the new UI (user interface) as a whole. As we move deeper into 2008 we'd
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It’s been a while since you’ve heard from me. I wanted to follow up on a previous post regarding the Winter Scripting Games (a Microsoft event). Last year I participated in the 2007 Winter Scripting Games. Well, in preparation for this year’s
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When the concept of a community corporate blog was being discussed a few of us in IT were charged with researching what software/solution would be best to use. A few other blogging employees were using browser based blogs such as Blogharbor, Blogger,
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As Steve mentioned in his last post , we're still around. However, between Achievers, exams and the holidays I am still getting back into the swing of things. Our frigid and brutal winter is not exactly inspiring us to much poetic prose either, but
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Over the past couple weeks, it may have seemed like the CodeReview bloggers dropped of the face of Ada . ;) The truth is that we are all still here...well most of us. There has been a lot going on here at the Quixtar Spaulding facility ever since we came
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Christmas is a great time of year. Although for some IT departments on the web, it can certainly come with mixed feelings.... For any parents with little kids, you would most likely know about Webkinz. Cute little stuffed animals that you can also register
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This was the very first Achievers I have ever attended. It has been an experience I will certainly not forget. It isn't because of the weather either...although going from sub freezing temperatures in Grand Rapids Michigan to 80's in Fort Lauderdale
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The calendar year of 2008 is still weeks away although I find myself already distracted with what projects await us for the next 12 months. The high level goals of the business transformation will certainly still drive what we do for 2008 and many more
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This past weekend I had the honor and opportunity to attend and work at Achievers session 2. I don't have a chance to meet and talk to our Business Owners very often so I was excited to discuss the new Quixtar redesign with them. On the bus traveling
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