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SitePoint: “Making the Case for ColdFusion”. Eric Jones, CF columnist for SitePoint.com, has posted a column entitled “Making the Case for ColdFusion”. Eric is an experienced PHP developer, who was “asked to switch from my happy PHP world to the dark side of ColdFusion”, and learned that by using ColdFusion he could “do things faster,… Continue reading SitePoint: “Making the Case for ColdFusion”

Documentation & knowledge. A oft repeated question / assertion in KM is the link between explicit documentation and knowledge. The point I'm trying to make, is documentation alone does not = knowledge. To retain knowledge against attrition you have to have a community that can appreciate the context, understand the issues, talk the language, adopt… Continue reading Documentation & knowledge

A Better Voice Mail Greeting. I change my voice mail greeting everyday, so that it references the current day. Why? Because I want people to know that I am on top of my messages and their message is important to me. Whenever I discover a recurring activity like this, I try to “template” the process.… Continue reading A Better Voice Mail Greeting

NationMaster: A Master of Nations–ahem. NationMaster.com–where stats come alive! …a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD… You can make maps… Continue reading NationMaster: A Master of Nations–ahem

GFI launches GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 10. “GFI has announced the release of GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 10. This new version of GFI's popular server-based anti-spam solution allows network users to blacklist or whitelist senders via public folders, and enables administrators to tune the Bayesian filter more… [MS Exchange Blog]

Update for Windows Small Business Server 2003. An update has been released which fixes the OWA/OMA and store.exe memory alert issues that occur on SBS 2003 servers after Exchange 2003 SP1 is applied…. [MS Exchange Blog]

Yahoo News (press release) – USA – Consumer Alert: How to Avoid Taking the 'Phishing' Bait. Privacy Nonprofit Releases Five Rules to Detect and Avoid Phishing Scams SAN FRANCISCO, June 29 /PRNewswire/ — One of the more sinister and increasingly prevalent methods of identity theft is the practice of “spoofing” or “phishing,” involving the sending… Continue reading Yahoo News (press release) – USA – Consumer Alert: How to Avoid Taking the 'Phishing' Bait

InfoWorld: Needed: Rapid Internet response. Jon Udell. Instead, we need to make the network fabric itself more resilient and adaptive. I got a glimpse of how that might happen when I spoke with CloudShield Technologies about its recently announced CS-2000, which the company describes as a server for applications that do deep packet processing at… Continue reading Needed: Rapid Internet response

ABA's Restrictive New Archive Policy. Erik J. Heels comments on the ABA's decision to restrict access to the WWW archives of its print magazines to members only: The ABA did recently redesign its website and much of the content that had been available for free to the general public is now available only to ABA… Continue reading ABA's Restrictive New Archive Policy

The problem with search engine optimization.  SEO is the purported science of optimizing your webpage so that you rise to the top of the listings in Google and Yahoo! The theory is that a huge number of people find what they're looking for via search, that virtually all of these people only look at the… Continue reading The problem with search engine optimization