by Jon DiPietro | Jan 26, 2010 | Tech Trends
For the second time in the last three months, I had a grateful client report back to me that a new report commissioned out of my software product uncovered errors in their former spreadsheet-based billing system. In this case, they would have under-billed a client by...
by Jon DiPietro | Jan 11, 2010 | Social Media Marketing, Tech Trends
In its “Global powers of retailing 2010: Emerging from the downturn” report released yesterday, Deloitte identified several effects social media will have on retail businesses in 2010. Indeed, social networking has the potential to revolutionize the...
by Jon DiPietro | Dec 19, 2009 | Tech Trends
I upgraded this blog to WordPress version 2.9 last night and started receiving the following error message from the Simple Tags plugin: Simple Tags can’t work with this WordPress version The reason for this is that the plugin author programmed it so that it...
by Jon DiPietro | Dec 12, 2009 | Tech Trends
Jeff Atwood writes one of the best programming blogs on the Internet, Coding Horror. His articles are an eclectic mix of good programming practice with oblique connections to current events and societal observations. That’s why it’s so shocking to learn...
by Jon DiPietro | Dec 10, 2009 | Tech Trends
“There is no such thing as 100% inspection.” According to Dr. Jim Stewart of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL “While working on my dissertation, I was reviewing some trade magazines from the 50’s. There were a number of case studies showing...
by Jon DiPietro | Nov 2, 2009 | Tech Trends
For those not schooled in the “Nerd Classics,” the phrase “All your base are belong to us” refers to the incorrect language translation of a video game’s opening screen sequence that became on of the Internet’s first memes. In this...
