Archive for July 2010

Twitter and Blogging helps with recruitment?

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
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Something interesting happened last week when we were recruiting for a web programmer.  We had gone through our interviews and reduced the candidates to 3 and we were getting close to choosing our candidate.  We chose our candidate and he was pleased with our decision and he said that he was excited about working with our team.  He mentioned that he had been following our Twitter account and our blog posts and got a really good feeling for the expertise we had and it made him comfortable in making his decision  to work with us.

Interacting With a chroot Environment

Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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Some services are capable of running in a chroot environment without having to build a separate chroot environment for them. OpenSSH and bind9 are both examples of chroot aware services. Simple config options will get you on your way to secure use of either of those. But for other services, like Apache2, things get more complicated.

It’s sometimes helpful to make a stand alone chroot environment so that you can run multiple versions of software. For example, it’s sometimes useful to run one version of php for your live server and experiment with upgrading to the newest php by running the newest php in a chroot. But how can you interact with the services running in the chroot?

Winnipeg Fringe Festival Starts Today

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
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The 23th annual Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival starts today until July 25. The Fringe is currently the 2nd largest North American festival of its kind.

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The street in front of our building is going to be packed for the next couple of days and we’re looking forward for a fun-filled week!

Website development is all about teamwork

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
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I recently met with a prospect and we were reviewing their website in the meeting and he said something to me that stuck in my mind.  He said that when they got their website developed they told the website developer exactly how they wanted the site to be laid out and that is how they setup the website.  I thought to myself that does not make a lot of sense, sure the customer knows what content they want in the website but what does the client know about how to organize the content and provide navigation on the website.

What did Lebron James teach business owners?

Friday, July 9th, 2010
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It’s a rare moment in history when a professional athlete holds North America’s attention for six weeks of summer plus an hour long nationally televised special. When we see a basketball player garner attention like a presidential candidate it’s not a stretch to think Lebron James might have changed the way people view athletes. But can it change the way we view the owner and employee relationship?

Trade Show Tips

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
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A few months back we had a booth at a digital day conference and I thought I would share my thoughts on what I feel you need to do at a trade show if you have a booth and if you are attending.  If you have a booth:

  • Ensure your booth is professional and has some form of catchy look to it.  We developed a custom flash movie for the trade show that was looping all day, it got our brand across and our core capabilities