tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83147592899914236152011-12-14T18:42:31.364-08:00Caliber Web Group LLC is a consulting firm that helps business owners and leaders strengthen their technology infrastructure by helping to plan projects, taking on development projects and training existing staff to become more effective stewards over technical assets.Bill Nicolichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756876966714136334noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8314759289991423615.post-82840337869570310192010-10-06T14:00:00.000-07:002010-10-06T14:16:47.546-07:00

Getting expensive specialty equipment to have an entertainment PC isn't necessary. Dell computers makes a nice PC with a smaller, narrow "form factor" at a good price. The Dell Inspiron 560s (the "s" indicates a smaller form factor) is priced at around $329.99 brand new - or cheaper at the Dell outlet. I'm not shy about a refurbished or open box item. I've bought from the Dell outlet twice now

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If you're like me, there are electronic files like family photos, family videos, tax files, bank statements and so forth that I want to keep well-organized and copied for protection. I've finally found a solution that I'm happy with - Network Attached Storage - and so I'd like to share what I've done. My house is fairly typical, I wager, where there's a netbook, a laptop, a desktop PC and a

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I'm excited to have my T-SQL article published in the Best of SQLServerCentral, Volume 6 print book. The article entitled "Owning the Spelling Suggestion Feature" demostrates how to build the data set for an Ecommerce product key word search spell correction feature. To view the full article, go here.I first show how to break apart product descriptions into individual records using set-based

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ASP.NET simplifies a lot of work on the programmer's part. An ASP control can render both client side and server side script. Good news for the most part, however, what if the output of the control isn't exactly what you want? There are methods in the code behind to override rendering output, but I'm going to outline a simple way to override client side javascript rendered by ASP.NET in the

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I see brand new web sites that are coded poorly all the time. A poorly-coded web site might look fine on the surface but can cause a variety of opportunity costs, maintenance headaches and other long-term issues costing far more than the initial development costs.They slip past the radar of many business owners and managers who sponsor the work, presumably, because non-technical people typically

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0112092027aOriginally uploaded by newfaveMicrosoft really knows how to put together a bathroom. I visted their building as they hosted a SQL Server event this week. I could spend time in that bathroom. Very nice. It left a good impression.

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0114091023Originally uploaded by newfaveIn the absence of software to visualize the burn down chart for a project, this is my poor man's alternative: Set aside a column on the whiteboard for completed features. When the feature is done, move it to the adjacent column. One can see visually what's been done and what's left which offers about the same information as a graphical burn down chart.

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There's exciting innovations going on where technology meets politics. The Sunlight Foundation has been building a gallery of widgets to improve political transparency. Maplight.org and NetSquared.org are also great examples. New data sources are being built. New visualizers of the data are being created.In the latest US Presidential election cycle, candidates encouraged creation of new databases

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