tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31600722009-02-23T22:43:55.036-05:00<a href="http://URLyGrl.com">HOME</a><br> <i>Passion for the web. Passion for Life.</i>Kate A. Shoreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886740172440285472noreply@blogger.comBlogger1151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160072.post-68246313657917763752008-04-01T07:45:00.000-04:002008-04-01T07:45:41.909-04:00

At HomeUbuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” beta - making life easier for Windows users | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com: "Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” beta has made Linux adoption much easier by making it easy for Windows users to install Ubuntu onto their PCs without affecting their Windows installation.Two new features added to Ubuntu 8.04 are umenu and Wubi and these additions have significantly lowered the

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URLyGRL.com is proud to bring to your attention that our esteemed and hardworking colleague in the software architecture and leadership domain has recently joined New York's business-focused technology consultancy, Incremax.Incremax Technologies: "Incremax Taps Top Talent to Lead Microsoft Information Productivity Practice ManagementIndustry Veteran Expands Incremax Expertise With Microsoft

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Recruiting is a fine trade. It needs to be better. There are several options for filling the gap. One is to buy my resume generator so that when you need a taxonomist, you pull up all the things I did related to that topic. More than likely there are many! Another thing you can do is get to know your capital, in this case the people you might want to recruit.. Know the many shades of them!!

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Some good business advice from another member of Women in Technology, International:WITI - The Number One Reason You Don't Get What You Want: "What most people don't realize is that between the stimulus, their emotion, and their response is another important step. The real sequence is as follows: event (stimulus) - INTERPRETATION - emotional reaction - and then response. In the intensity of the

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Passion for the web. Passion for life!A mere 1165 posts... how sad... well if technorati picks me up, I shall reciproKate..Technorati Profile Technorati Profile

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Passion for the web. Passion for life!A mere 1165 posts... how sad... well if technorati picks me up, I shall reciproKate..

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Hey there,I found another site with CSS layouts. You will notice the HTML is the same for all of them! --KateLayout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!: "All layouts use valid markup and CSS, and have been tested successfully on Internet Explorer/win 5.0, 5.5, 6 and beta 2 preview of version 7; Opera 8.5, Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2. Each of the

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Is Firefox Compliant?Acid2 Browser Test - The Web Standards Project: "Acid2 is a test page, written to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards in their products. Please take the Acid2 test!If you’d like more in-depth information about the Acid2 test, we’ve provided a detailed technical guide that explains how the test works."

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Compliance is a key factor when transforming or improving business, but it does not ned to be the headache people think. Do you need to really save management approvals of small system changes made 4 years ago? Compliance rulings such as Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 are about increasing accountability in business. My suggestion is to run your business orderly, monitor your records, and track

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BPM Institute sat down and decided to write an article on how to do BPMBusiness Process Management (BPM) - BPMS Watch: Learning to "Do" BPM: "BPMN is a bit different than traditional flowcharts or swimlane diagrams. Those notations came out of a human workflow paradigm, in which a process is largely defined by handoffs between people. BPMN supports human workflow, but it also supports SOA, the

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BPMN Training: "BPMessentials.com is your learning resource for business process management. You can find free reports, articles, and presentations that will help you get started in BPM."You've been modeling business process for years, gettig involved in everything from reenginering a help desk to reengineering your clunky old vendor management system to doing "functional decomposition" workshops

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Wayne L. Answerson addresses fundamentals of leadership in his online article, There is a Reason Why You Hired Them, published March 2007, vol.2, issue 3 at CareerandLeadership.com. I found this a beautiful commentary!Leadership: "Your people will need a leader that is like the conductor of an orchestra. In other words, you need to let them manage themselves. The conductor does not tell the

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I found a post by the Geek Coach on LinkedIn.com's Questions and Answers and thought you might be interested...The Geek Coach - Home: "This month Ron shares with Peter what every IT professional needs to thrive within an IT career - A plan for World Domination. Learn the 5 key steps required to ensure your plans for World Domination turn into reality.Tune into this monthly podcast as Ronald

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I came across this tasty blog this morning and checked out an excerpt of the authors pending book, Becoming a Manager. He manages documentation and teaches others about managing documentation, but you may infer, it's about a lot more than that. I see a reflection of people, process, and technology, so I thought I would pass it along! (Thanks Mr. Hamilton for publishing your blog!.) --

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Starting from scratch is one thing. Thinking from scratch and leveraging what you have is another. I makes sense really. Consider what you want, then consider what you have that can solve those needs. with the remaining gap, start planning how to fill it, considering future expansion, flexibility, and in a nutshell, evolution. Computerworld January 2007 discusses how the SOA framwork can be

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Business Process Management (BPM) - Best Practices in Business Process Management:"# Successfully determining business requirements# Determining required organizational change tactics# Involving key project stake holders to ensure ease of deployment# Mapping business strategies to business process"

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Time to Change Change Management - Weigh In - weighin - CIO: "Modifying a key operational process requires designing new workflows, defining new roles and responsibilities, collecting different data, managing service levels, acting on feedback from dashboards and integrating disparate databases. Afford your operational processes the same attention and formality that you afford a business

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It works!Randsco - CSS Photo-Caption Zoom: "Move the cursor over the image and it will 'zoom' (pop, explode, magnify) to reveal a larger image with a caption. There are a number of image rollover techniques, but this is the first that combines an image with a caption."

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About.com: http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-1732468-10356322?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thinkgeek.com%2Ftshirts%2Fgeneric%2F724a%2FAbout .com highlighted this tee shirt from ThinkGeek.com. It would have made a sweet Valentine's present! (All our base are belong to us!) --Kate"roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you." All together now AWWWWW!

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xPad. The Ultimate Notepad.: "xPad is now freeware!Thanks for all the memories! Here's a code for free use:Name: xPad UserEmail: support@getxpad.comCode: X6893-2055-5686-9378"

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A Tool from AJAXLOAD.INFOAjaxload - Ajax loading gif generator: "Create easily your own ajax loader icon : 1. Select the type of indicator you want 2. Enter the background code color you want (tick 'Transparent background' if you don't want one 3. Enter the foreground code color you wantPress 'Generate it'"

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The WHATWG Blog � WHATWG and HTML 5 FAQ: " In XHTML, there is no DOCTYPE required. You may include one if you wish, but this is not recommended because they are only relevant when using a validating parser, but browsers do not use validating parsers anyway.If there is no DTD, how can I validate my page? With a conformance checker."

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Dynamic Drive- FavIcon Generator: "Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site."

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A List Apart: Articles: Quick CSS Mockups with PhotoshopOnly with ridiculous hours of coding and copious quantities of caffeine could you convert such a table to relative divs, and this just steals more time from when you could have been designing more mockups or sleeping. So why start off with a sliced table at all? What I needed was a way to generate clean relatively positioned divs—or, barring

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I deleted my old BlogThis! link from my tool bar and recovered it from this page below. Hopefully I will no longer get Google errors whenI try to quote text in my commentaries.Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?: "BlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Once you add the BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar, blogging will be a snap. Or rather, a click.

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