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Introducing Silverlight
“Using the Technology You Don’t Know About to Deliver the Systems You Never Knew You Wanted”
There’s been a buzz in the air recently about this new fangled technology from Microsoft <insert groan here>. The buzz surrounding Microsoft Silverlight has been building over the last number of months for us in the programming community and has recently come to a head with the official release of Silverlight 1.0 only a few weeks ago.
How Healthy Is Your Computer Network?
Your office has grown to 20 people. You have a server that holds your accounting system, proposals and other files that you all share. Your office administrator runs a backup every night and your nephew comes in on the weekend to make sure everything runs well.
Life is good.
Or is it? How do you really know that disaster is not just around the corner ready to throw your 20 employees into an extended paid leave of absence? Here are some questions to ask yourself.
Managing Your Own Web Site Can Be Easier Than You Think.
We find the majority of our web site customers want the ability to make simple changes to web sites themselves after we have completed the design and development of their web site. The good news is that there are inexpensive and easy solutions that allow them to do just that. These solutions are called content management systems, or CMS for short.
A Road Warrior Goes Paperless
Don’t ask me for a pen, because I might not be carrying one. That’s because I now write down all my meeting notes in a computer that understands handwriting – even mine. Read on to see how this saves me countless hours a week.
The story of how this came about started when my company merged with a competitor last year and I found myself in a new role – Business Development. What that meant was that I was out of the office a lot – and I took plenty of notes. Then when I got back in the office, I had to transcribe these notes into our corporate-wide Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, which happens to be a product called Maximizer.
Vista –a Good News Story (Mostly)
Welcome to this, my first installment of Business Technology. My intent with this column is to review computer technology from a business user perspective. I will try to keep it in plain English, stay away from the hype and discuss things the average business person might encounter. (I will include a glossary of terms when I do need to drift into jargon.) If you have any topics you would like discussed in future articles, please send me an email; if it has to do with technology, chances are either myself or one of my colleagues has hands-on experience with it.
Nicom IT Solutions Inc. is a full service IT professional services firm providing Software Development, IT Consulting, E-commerce Solutions, Technical Support, and Web Design & Development in addition to Staffing Services.
