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Be passionate about what you do

By jonezy | Published: April 6, 2008
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

By jonezy | Published: April 1, 2008
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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What went well, what didn’t go well, what can I try next time?

By jonezy | Published: March 31, 2008
At Q4 we have a monthly retrospective at the end of each month, and we ask our selves these 3 questions: 1) What went well this month? 2) What didn’t go well this month? 3) What can we try next month? This is an agile philosophy that we use on the month and week level at work depending on [...]
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When things are complicated, simplify

By jonezy | Published: March 28, 2008
What do you do when you are overwhelmed with stress and pressure and immediacy?  It’s a question that I try and evaluate occasionally to see how my opinions change. These external forces can come at you from many different avenues.  Work, family, kids… all the usual suspects.  Everyone needs something from you now so how do [...]
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Wanted: Senior .NET Developer

By jonezy | Published: March 25, 2008
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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Wii Friday Thursday!

By jonezy | Published: March 20, 2008
We have decided to start a new tradition at the office, wii friday!  But since this week is a short one due to easter our inaugural edition will occur on Thursday. Our first game will be a tournament bracket style playoff in bowling.  The matchups are set out and we’ll begin at 4:30. Hopefully someone will be [...]
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Q4; One of Canada’s Top 25 Up and Coming Companies

By jonezy | Published: March 19, 2008
Just like the title says, the company I work for is getting some recognition and validation of our efforts from the industry, it sure does feel good!
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Q4Press.com

By jonezy | Published: March 18, 2008
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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questions and answers about xbrl

By jonezy | Published: October 5, 2006
this is definately work related, Chris Vickerson (the CTO at Q4 Websystems) did a nice little write up about xbrl and what it means for publicly traded companies, go have a read.
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SEC Will Require All Companies To Report in XBRL

By jonezy | Published: September 25, 2006
This is going to mean big changes for publicly traded companies over the next 3 years.  It will also effect the way a lot of the technology companies that service the financial sector operate as well (for us too I’m sure). “THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is converting its EDGAR database to Extensible Business Reporting [...]
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