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NIRI and Web 2.0
For the past 2 years the amazing sales team that I work with at Q4 Web Systems have ventured out to San Diego for the annual NIRI conference. It’s a really important event for us and it’s always great to hear about it when the team get’s back.
This morning while I was going through [...]
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What do you do when the shit hits the fan?
To cut to the point, I was promoting some changes for a client last night. It was an update to part of our product that allows our customers to send automated and one off emails to lists of subscribers. I had done promotions similar to this in the past (in fact i’ve probably done the [...]
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Semantics, language and meaning
As an employee of a software development it’s fairly common to have people of many nationalities and cultural backgrounds as co-workers. More and more people from around the world come to Canada and the United States to find jobs in the tech industry, bringing there ample skills and knowledge to the companies they work for. [...]
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It’s not rocket surgery!
I found this gem over at the 37 signals corporate blog, its a presentation David Heinemeier Hansson did at the Startup School conference called The Secret to making money online.
Its a great video about how 37 signals has become a profitable business over the last 4-5 years without taking any venture capital funding or outside [...]
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Twitter, where is the value?
I’ve been using twitter for about 6 months with varying degrees of “using”. Sometimes it’s a passive view where I see what other people are doing and not really broadcasting what I am doing, other times it’s lot’s of little wonderful nuggets out of my life that make it on there, and the occasional [...]
Be passionate about what you do
The other day at lunch a co-worker of mine and I were talking about hockey. Our conversation ended up at Alexander Ovechkin, left winger for the Washington Capitals.
Whether you are a hockey fan or not this guy is a sight to see on the ice. Every goal he scores is like his first goal, every [...]
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Learning from others
In the vein of the last post (what went well, what didn’t go well, what can i try next time?), I decided to apply this exercise to a particularly bad customer service experience I had at the local drug store. But this time I would apply those 3 questions to how the pharmacy [...]
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Wanted: Senior .NET Developer
The company I work for is looking for a Senior .NET developer! Check below for the details:
Q4 Web Systems is looking for a kick-ass senior .NET developer. If you are a technology junkie and your idea of fun is spending a Saturday night reading about Team Foundation Server 2008 or playing with Silverlight 2.0 just [...]
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Q4Press.com
At work we decided that we needed to put together a marketing site for our just released product Q4 Press.
What followed was literally a couple of hours of back and forth with the CEO of the company and we had the site done and ready to go.
For such a quick turnaround I’m really happy with [...]
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