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HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) and Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3) promises some really serious new features for the Web application designers and developers.  Browser creators are in a frenzy trying to support the best of the features.  Currently, it would not be a good idea to build HTML5 + CSS3 ONLY applications UNLESS you can guarantee the features you use are supported by all the browsers the users may use or you can get the users to use only the browser(s) that will support your application.  The latter is a tall order of course. Read the rest of this entry »

Dig this. You can “digg this” as well. Anyway, you have a small business of 10 to 20 employees, with a couple managers, a couple sales people, an accountant, an AP person, an HR person, and an IT person. You are a visionary who foresees, according to your nicely drafted business plan, your business will grow from $750K to $7.5M in 3 years and from 10-20 employees to 200. You forsee running a $250M company in 10 years. You are looking for software to manage your entire business, but one that will grow along with your business. You want something powerful and complete. Read the rest of this entry »

Does anyone remember the free operating system, [GNU] Linux, that people originally thought was child’s play, or for educational enthusiasts / hobbyists, or too difficult for business use? They said it would not catch on. When Linus Torvalds created the first Linux kernel and enthusiasts jumped aboard to help build what was a 0.9 kernel, then a 1.0 kernel of Linux, not many people thought it would materialize. Linux was largely ignored by the masses. A few groups/companies came up with the idea of creating their own [Free] distributions based on the Linux kernel. Many outsiders, on-lookers, and [future] competitors got a chuckle. Well, as Linux-based distributions began to chip away at the market share of industry giants like Sun and Microsoft, Linux began to get a fight. Even companies (SCO) with their own Linux distribution was fighting some Linux distributions and companies that implemented Linux… but that is another matter.

There is another phenomenon, “a radical idea” as Jorg Janke put’s it, sweeping the business world. This time it is not a free operating system. This time, it is a complete business solution built to work seamlessly instead of one made from a bunch of parts. The product is Compiere. Read the rest of this entry »

Pete Seeger wrote and performed a song in late 1959 / early 1960s called “Where are all the Flowers gone?” A cleverly-written song, “Where have all the Flowers Gone?” focused on the cyclical nature of things. He suggests that the flowers have gone to the young girls, who have gone to young men, who have gone [on] to [become] soldiers, who have then [died and] gone to the graveyards, that have [decomposed and] gone to flowers… So has been the nature of the Tech Jobs in America. Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing wastes more of our time on the Internet than things like spam, spyware, pop-ups, unsolicited pornography, and software like worms, viruses, and trojans. It is about time we take back our Internet experience. The Internet has too many good points for us to be thwarted by these types of material/software. Worse than wasting our time, these types of materials/software cost companies billions of dollars each year in damages, security consultation, combat software, employee time, etc. We shouldn’t be forced to spend this much time, effort, and money on combating these annoyances. Enough is enough. Read the rest of this entry »