I used to like the deviant thumbs plugin for wordpress, but yesterday I found out that it was slowing my blog page. And by slowing, I mean giving at least 4 seconds difference in loading time with fast internet connection. This caused increase in my bounce rate and that’s why I noticed the problem. As soon as I deactivate the plugin everything goes normal….
I really liked this plugin, but the whole blog experience is much more imporrtant. I hope that the author will do something in order to correct the problem, but who knows….
It’s not a secreat that I am a great fan of nearly every track that was performed at Woodstock (69). I have listened to all of them and watched the video coverage a thousand times…and I grow even more envious towards the people that was there
One of the best performances there, in my view, is Santana’s soul sacrifice. It’s just smashing!!! And as everyday I learn something new -- yesterday Ilearned who is the drummer that plays at Woodstock with Santana. His name is Michael Shrieve and it seems that he was the youngest performerat Woodstock (only 19 years old). After a short background check in Wikipedia and some other online sources, it appears that the he is a very popular musician even today and he has a track of success.
Below are two performances of his -- first is from Woodstock (of course) and then one with Jonas Hellborg and Buckethead (sounds great!!!).
Just kidding! No way that I start the post like this
Now to the essence. Today, while browsing through LinkedIn, I found a really interesting competition. It’s one where the best sales article of the year is to be selected. Great!!!
At http://top10salesarticles.com/ you can find these pieces and I guarantee you that they are really well written and helpful. My personal favorites are the articles of Drew Stevens and Tibor Shanto. They both take into consideration some of the top time management issues when performing sales tasks. Everyone have had to deal with this at some point of time, so have a look and reflect on your own experience. Also, in no case miss the 5 Sales Management Tips of Dave Kurlan.
I will be glad if you comment which are your personal favorites
This week I had to prepare a survey to be presented to our clients. I have created a draft of the survey long time ago and after some comments- the official launch had to take place. I had a large list of sites, offering free online surveys, yet all of them had pros and cons….so I had to choose carefully. Below I will present both QuestionPro and SurveyPirate.
As some of you know, in the forthcoming CSS 3.0 there will be tons of great improvements, including diagonal-writing, round edges through code and up to 8 background images for an element. This is fantastic but so far we cannot use these goodies and have to overcome the difficulties by hand.
Today I had to improve my company’s corporate blog comments.php. In the process I had to apply two background images to my comments block, but this appeared to be not so smooth. Of course, I consulted with many sites and the options varied from nested elements to empty div classes (God forbid…). In the end I decided to try with inline-css coding. I post my solution here so that it gives yet another alternative to the ones that has been posted already. I will be glad if you have suggestions for improvements. Read the rest of this entry »
Thanks to my colleague Martin, I have been officially added to the Google Wave preview. At first glance the new idea of the googlers is really cool. Let me point out some of the features that I liked the most:
Freedom of composition of the screen
Interactive approach towards the communication between the people
Interesting gadgets to be used (and potential for many new ones)
Combines email+IM (not like their try in gmail’s environment)
Allows multiple people working on one thing (something that I need and use on daily basis at work)
Of course, there are cons of the new Wave system:
Still slow at some points
The people can see while the others they chat with are writing…but in many cases this is distracting and most importantly – inconvenient (i.e: Hi Sue, sweetie….ops, sorry Marry, darling this was meant for another person)
Lacks some logical buttons (mute…but no unmute etc.)
Still, my overall impression is that this can turn into something really big and, moreover – pretty soon. And now some fun – have a look at 3 gadgets (actually 2 gadgets and 1 robot), that I fell in love with:
I was pretty frustrated when my diagram was not present when I restord a database of mine in MS SQL Server 2008 Express. The error shown was:
“Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner. To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog box or the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement to set the database owner to a valid login, then add the database diagram support objects.”
Here comes the solution. Execute the following query on the DB:
EXEC sp_dbcmptlevel ‘yourDB’, ‘90′;
go
ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::yourDB TO “yourLogin”
go
use [yourDB]
go
EXECUTE AS USER = N’dbo’ REVERT
go
This solution was posted on numerous sites, but I took it from this blog here.
I have been willing to buy a Kindle reader for a long period of time now and this summer I was just about to do it. Of course, it has limitations for the people that are outside US, yet I was able to use a CC in USA and to have my Kindle stored there (the requirements of the Kindle team), yet it wouldn’t have been the same.
Recently, Kindle went international. This is a dream come true for many fans like me. I wouldn’t want to buy a 6” device, as I am looking for the Kindle DX, yet this gave me hope that the big brother will be available pretty soon. Yesterday I found the Kindle Blog, that is something like an RSS for all news concerning Kindle. There I have found an article saying that Kindle DX will be available for the countries outside US in the following yer…and they even mention the beginning of 2010. Have a look at this post there. I am really happy!
Yesterday I decided to upgrade to the newest version of WorPress CMS (2.8.5). Suddenly, when trying to use the automatic upgrade, the system returned
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate XXX bytes) in YYY on line ZZZ
I decided to play a bit with this, as I did not have the time and will for the old-school upgrade. Here I post the solution of the problem, which is rather easy. Just edit your wp-config.php and add
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘64M’);
..and this is it. Everything should go smoothly. Of course, delete all unnecessary plugins of yours, as they are taking place, for sure.
As I am working on my senior project in CS for a while now, I had to install MS SQL Server as my DBMS. I have selected it as it allows me to work iwht LINQ and avoid the stored procedures and stuff. Still, when I began installing the server I did not know that I will experience a lot of different problem with it when installing on Windows 7. Now, when not only the RTM is on, but the official launch of W7 was a few days ago, I suppose that some of these problems will be avoided, yet I will share the way that I installed the servr, in order to save some troubles to the ones, that may have to cope with the same problems like me. Here is a brief list of steps to be done if you want to have VS2008 + SQL Server 2008 Express with Management Tools: Read the rest of this entry »
Now to the essence. Today, while browsing through LinkedIn, I found a really interesting competition. It’s one where the best sales article of the year is to be selected. Great!!!
This week I had to prepare a survey to be presented to our clients. I have created a draft of the survey long time ago and after some comments- the official launch had to take place. I had a large list of sites, offering free online surveys, yet all of them had pros and cons….so I had to choose carefully. Below I will present both 
Thanks to my colleague Martin, I have been officially added to the Google Wave preview. At first glance the new idea of the googlers is really cool. Let me point out 
I have been willing to buy a Kindle reader for a long period of time now and this summer I was just about to do it. Of course, it has limitations for the people that are outside US, yet I was able to use a CC in USA and to have my Kindle stored there (the requirements of the Kindle team), yet it wouldn’t have been the same.
As I am working on my senior project in CS for a while now, I had to install MS SQL Server as my DBMS. I have selected it as it allows me to work iwht LINQ and avoid the stored procedures and stuff. Still, when I began installing the server I did not know that I will experience a lot of different problem with it when installing on Windows 7. Now, when not only the RTM is on, but the official launch of W7 was a few days ago, I suppose that some of these problems will be avoided, yet I will share the way that I installed the servr, in order to save some troubles to the ones, that may have to cope with the same problems like me. Here is a 
