9 April, 2007 at 3:21 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Business
One of my biggest issues with LinkedIn is that it’s only possible to give recommendations to people you’ve worked with in a ‘job’ capacity. It’s not possible to recommend a tutor, or a fellow student whom you’ve worked with during your Education. As someone who’s only recently started their career, I haven’t worked with many people in my Job capacity, making it hard to request and give Recommendations based on my job alone. With this in mind, I recently asked if LinkedIn will implement Education recommendations.
Here’s their response:
We do not do recommendations for education only for positions. I
think it would be a great idea to have this feature added. I will pass
along the suggestion.
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5 April, 2007 at 9:47 am
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Business
I’m about to see if/how I can integrate our Sage accounting and stock system into our existing e-commerce database. The idea is to reduce the duplication of information as, at present, all orders are re-typed into Sage even though a fair bit of the data already exists in the database. How very inefficient!
Wish me luck
Update: Well that was a false start. I was told Sage had a 45-day trial. It doesn’t, so I’ll have to wait for a licence code. D’oh!
Update (2007-05-01):Â Seems Sage Instant Accounts Plus can’t use MySQL, so I’ll have to look into e-mailing the order details in CSV format as an attachment. One for the back-burner! 
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21 March, 2007 at 12:35 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Business, General IT, Linux, Windows
If you follow this blog, you’ll know that I recently setup an Ubuntu box running Samba with a 2.7TB Raid5 array. Its job is to replace one of our 300GB Dell PowerVault 715N NAS boxes which has become full.
Finding files on our previous 300GB PowerVault was nothing short of a nightmare and, with such a vast amount of data on the new system, we have to ensure that information won’t get ‘lost’ as easily. Obviously proper structuring of directories through a bit of Information Architecture will help, but what we really need is a search facility.
As a small company with a limited budget, the search facility has to be affordable. In addition, it needs to be easily accessible to everyone in the network, preferably without installing extra applications onto client systems…
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