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Is Working Online from Home The way to financial freedom

Are online jobs the next big thing? As the U.S. economy continues to free-fall, millions of American are finding themselves without jobs, sufficient retirement or paychecks coming in. In March alone the number of unemployed increased by 694,000 to 13.2 million. Throughout history those on the cutting edge have adapted and prospered by knowing how to adapt to current economic climates, and this trend may once again be taking place on the internet.

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The Purpose-Driven Website – Entrepreneur.com


The Purpose-Driven Website – Entrepreneur.com

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Purpose Driven Websites – From Entrepeneur Magazine

I recently met an entrepreneur who told me her startup needed a website. When I asked why, she said, “Because every company has a website, so why should mine be any different?” When I pressed further and asked what end the website would serve, she paused, looking a little puzzled, and said, “Well, I don’t know–you tell me.”

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Sharepoint some cool stuff

I have heard about sharepoint for some time now but just haven’t had the time to do any exploring.  A couple of months ago I had was talking to the Network Administrator, Tim, at work about Sharepoint.  He indicated they had a sharepoint site already set up but that no one was using it.  In our weekly dev meeting I brought it up and Darren, the lead software tester, said he had used it when he was working for Visa.  Tim said he would set up the lastest version of Sharepoint and we could start playing around.

It has been a couple of months and I am amazed at the easy of use and ablity to customize.  In the next couple of months I am going to try to integrate some of the exsiting database information into the sight.  I am excited about the possibilities and even more satified with the very small amount of time it has take to make the site really useful.

on to discovery

ASP.net development, jQuery and .net 3.5

Over the past two moths I have been exploring  .net 3.5.  I have discovered that developing in Microsofts world there are lots of tools and built in libraries to make developing much faster.  Coming from the past three years of lots of open-source, PHP/Linux development Microsoft makes many development chores a lot easier.  And you can get into the plumbing and mess around with stuff also to tweak things they way you want to.  I am getting more excited about the possiblities all the time.

It is cool too that it is so easy to integrate open-source stuff like jQuery into ASP.net.  All of that stuff just makes developing easier and faster.  It is cool too that jQuery has build stuff to make intellisense work with Visual Studio.

Sharepoint

If you organization is a Microsoft Shop Sharepoint can be very valuable.   It will chage your life.  It is easy to setup, manage and customize.  It has functions for setting up blogs for everyuser and storing important document and files all in one place.  Over the last few months I have been setting up and managing a Sharepoint site for MicroMain.  I am not having to spend a ton of time, but I am adding a ton of functionality to the site.  Plus others are now using the site and adding features that make life easier and more productive at MicroMain.