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A UML is a Unified Modeling Language that software developers use to basically draw out the way a piece of software is going to work for their clients. There are other industry suggested paperwork that comes with it like responsabilities and details about the project, but the overall visual representation of the program comes from the UML during the development phase. If you’ve ever worked at a large corporation that is getting ready to launch a new internal program through their IT section that will hopefully make your life a whole lot easier or at least modernize the way you run your business...

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Everyone has a technology comfort zone, as I’m writing this I’m using an online blogging platform called WordPress that is easy to set up and use for anyone and has the most features with the lowest possible price, free. Yet it’s important that we distinguish the difference between what is our technology comfort zone verses our technology limitations and understand those differences otherwise we risk putting ourselves into a position where we are either paying a lot for something or working way to hard when there are easier and better solutions to our problems. An example can be given...

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If you have ever read any of my posts so far you’ll know that I push for people to have a common sense approach to SEO and other web promotional online marketing ideas. There are a lot of people out there who run entire businesses solely on the idea of you paying them to market your stuff. If you choose to use those services that is fine, you as the customer have the option to basically pay whomever you want for whatever you want. Yet here is my reason for never paying for it myself nor do I suggest you try them either, if you don’t understand exactly what it is they are going to do for you,...

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So as I’m writing this to you I’m doing it in my email through Google Apps getting ready to send them to post@posterous.com. This is just a test of course but it’s an important one for those of you looking to blog need to remember. The hardest part of blogging in many cases is just finding the time or place to write a post. Usually when you have an idea you may not have the time or energy to start a thought that may eventually become a winning post, by using a service like Posterous, you can simply start your blog post on your native email application whether on your phone or on your...

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I live in San Diego and thus am proud to have a tech giant like Intuit here to make us San Diego Technology guys proud. They do a great job at hosting local events and are instrumental in recruiting talent to this area so think of this post as my way of thanking them for helping our community. Recently I noticed that Intuit has decided to get into the website hosting business, it seems to make sense right? I mean they provide their Tax and Business software to a lot of small businesses so it would make sense that they want to also provide websites for their employees that syncs up well to the software...

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Many of you have read about Fire Sheep in the last few weeks since the ToorCon hacker’s conference. The program allows a novice want to be hacker to easily bring up cookie settings and be allowed to log into other people’s accounts within a local network and act as them online on any non SSL secured site. Basically if you’re in a coffee shop and you are using their free Wifi network, someone with the Fire Sheep plugin can login as you to your Facebook or any open session website online. To read more about how the program works please visit the link below for more information. http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/Security_Now_272 So...

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Social Media is a beast of a sector to understand, it’s part technology, part high school style politics and most importantly part marketing. Originally it was intended as a way for people to interact with each other online and share links, ideas, stories and so much more. Many of us that have been in technology since the mid 90′s can remember some of the first Social Media sites like Bolt.com and others before the MySpace and Friendster’s of the world made it main stream. With the advent of Mega Social Sites the Twitter or Facebook, companies and marketers have stood up and taken...

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There has been much talk in the Web Development Community about growth of sites like ThemeForest.net and other that sell high quality web based themes for around $30 to $40. Many who make their living from selling themes argue that they wish prices would be hire, they are claim that in contrast these same higher quality themes would cost you roughly $2000 in the custom space but selling on through these sort of services undermines their bottom line simply does not generate as much revenue as they feel their work deserves. Though I may agree with the pretense I don’t agree with the conclusion,...

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There has been a lot of Dedicated Server people jumping on the anti cloud bandwagon lately after Amazon’s cloud based AWS went down for a few days. Many big named sites like Foursquare and others were offline for quite some time but amazingly one company whom uses Amazon almost exclusively seemed to stand on it’s own without any issues, Netflix stayed online. How did they do it? The secret lies in the way they structured their networks, great programmers solve problems, superb developers avoid them all together. According to Company Rep John Ciancutti, Netflix had build an application...

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My involvement with WordCamp San Diego started in late 2009, I had been using the WordPress platform for some time as a quick and easy to set up front end for all the back end projects I had been involved with at the time. As an Open Source developer and proponent I had wanted to make sure that I used only OSS tools and WordPress had the largest and most active design and user base I could find at the time. For some time I had wanted to attend a WordCamp event but couldn’t due to school and work obligations so I went out searching to start one here in San Diego. At the time nothing was listed...

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