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Comments as spam
statements or misleading links. You could restrict comments to registered users, but that requires either some review process before approving any user or some monitoring of posts to identify spammers, trolls [2], sockpupptets [3] and any other members...
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My cat is cloud-based
work less well for your administration and finance staff. This doesn't mean you should avoid it, but think about the whole process/data life-cycle and consider the losers as well as the winners. Where is my data? Security is (or should be) a major...
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Joomla tricks - menu item without a menu
appear on the main menu. Obviously you need to create the contact first - I have set up a dummy contact to demonstrate the process. Next create a new menu - not a menu item, an entire new menu. You only need to do this once, you can reuse this menu for...
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Joomla tricks - Where am I?
There are a number of extensions that address this; I use the Sourcerer extension [1] but others should support a similar process. Note that the Sourcerer extension required PHP 5.3 and will not work on 5.2. In the Article The Sourcerer extension adds...
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For those who follow...documenting your programs
documentation syntax ([1],[2],[3]). Unless you have a really, really good reason not to, you should use these natural processes. Any new programmer already familiar with the language will have a head start on understanding your environment and become...
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Computers aren't intelligent, despite what you see in the movies
Say that slowly to yourself a few times. Non-al-go-rith-mic. Not capable of being expressed as an algorithm or step-by-step process. Really. This means that you can't write a computer program (an algorithm) that fully expresses human intelligence....
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Insightful Customer Relations
system, SugarCRM. SugarCRM provides a web-based information system specifically designed for streamlining your sales process from first lead to contract signing through to after-sales customer care.
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Online surveys
level of service or support that you provide? What communications methods do they prefer? What can you do to streamline the process of meeting their needs? System requirements Planning for system upgrades may require hardware changes (new computers) but...
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Planning for an Asterisk PABX installation
related to Asterisk. This means that they can continue to develop Asterisk and make itavailable to the community. Planning Process Although Asterisk is ‘just’ a piece of software, a production implementation needs to be planned in the same way as you...
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Data crunching
are a few fairly common situations where organisations might require additional data processing systems and/or services. Custom reporting databases Sometimes even the best enterprise system doesn't quite meet your needs. You might need a special report...