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A Networking Approach That Always Works

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I have tried many different approaches when networking based on advice from others and ideas that I have read. Finally I have found the best way to approach the following business networking scenarios: You are at some networking event and you are making contact for the first time with some ...

How to Access Your Ubuntu Remotely

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

When I develop for ThemBid.com I often work remotely. When I was using Windows XP I would use UltraVNC to access my desktop remotely, then when I "upgraded" to Vista I did not take to the time to do that, instead I used the built in Remote Desktop feature. Now ...

ThemBid.com Makes it to the Front Page of Lxer.com Again

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Isaac's article about running PHP4 and PHP5 in Ubuntu side by side without CGI made it to the front page of Lxer.com.

The 17 Success Principles Applied to a Web 2.0 Startup

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I read this book by Napoleon Hill some time ago called "Success Through a Postive Mental Attitude". It spoke of 17 success principles that I re-read every day and apply to our Web 2.0 startup. In this article I will list those seventeen principles with a brief explanation on how ...

Ubuntu: The Switch (6 of 6) - Conclusion

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Now that the Vista to Ubuntu switch is complete and I have had some time to use Ubuntu in a productive environment... I can say that I love Ubunutu (I have had experience with Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, QNX and Debian in the past)! Even running Windows XP under VMware ...

Networkers say the darnest things…

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Being at a networking event last night reminded me of this. The very first time we attended the New Member Welcome Event at the Greater Riverside Chamber of Commerce, I met a very nice lady who owned her own business. As we were talking, she got more and ...

Starbucks and Ubuntu

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I was just settling in at the fancy new Starbucks near my house to finish up my final article regarding my switch from Vista to Ubuntu when I notice a quote about ubuntu on my Starbucks cup. The word Ubuntu was even italicized... Is it a sign...or do I have ...

Dual Monitors with VMWare - Ubuntu Host and Windows Guest

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I run Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn 7.04 as my host with Windows XP Professional as the guest. When I go to full screen in VMware I would get each monitor displaying the same thing. What I wanted to do was get the display to stretch across the two monitors. Here is ...

Ubuntu: The Switch (5 of 6) - Application Migration

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Previous Entries See the end of this post. Application Migration Now that Ubuntu is up and running and configured the way I like, its time to get the applications installed. Following is a list of all the applications that I replaced from my Windows environment with notes on how to get ...

How To Run PHP 4 and 5 in Ubuntu Without CGI

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

When we chose Symfony to implement ThemBid.com, PHP 5 was needed but we only had PHP 4 installed in our Ubuntu hosting servers. We couldn't just migrate everyone to PHP 5 since some of client's applications were incompatible with PHP 5. Some tutorials were found online explaining how ...