Obama CTO Lets You Suggest and Vote on Technology Priorities

What are the most technology needs for the Nation? well ObamaCTO.com have started a list take a look at it and and things you don’t see. You never know who’s watching the site.

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Another Joomla Site Is born

Old Site

 

When the Palatine Jaycees needed a update to there aging website. I worked with the Chapter President to bring a fresh new look to there website. For this site it required moving over all the current chapter contain as well as introducing some new features. The Palatine Jaycees is a leadership development and networking group for adults between the age of 18 and 40 in Palatine, Illinois.Revised Site

 

    Components Used In the site:
    MassContain- This component is used on the backend to migrate multiple html pages to the Joomla all at once.
    DOCman – This component allows for the chapter board to post documents for the members to
    download such as recent newsletters and forms.
    Fireboard Forum- This component allows for the chapter to host a forum outside their chapter so that there members can collaborate and share ideas outside the chapters meetup social group.
       

    Check out the groups website at http://www.palatinejaycees.org

    Wonderful Laptop Deal

    This an amazing deal being offered this weekend by Wal-Mart announced the other day on their blog. If your in need of a laptop you should take advantage of this deal.

    http://www.checkoutblog.com/entries/2008/7/17/saving_you_some_money.aspx


    Thursday, July 17 at 10:53 AM

    Posted by: Ryan, Wal-Mart

    Category: Gadgets

    One of the coolest parts of my job is working with suppliers to bring you all great deals.  Today, I am announcing a deal that is the best we have delivered so far this year.  The time is perfect as the economy is what it is, and people are getting prepared for going back to school.image

    Sunday at 8 am, we will begin selling a Toshiba laptop that has 2GB of RAM, 120GB Hard Drive, Reads and Writes cd’s and dvd’s, has a 15.4” screen, has wireless capability and the Windows Vista Premium Operating System.  All of this for $398.  That’s right; $398!!  This is a tremendous value for anyone looking for a laptop.  Supplies are limited (we did buy a lot, but think at this price it will be quite popular).  This item will also be on the front cover of our circular this Sunday.

    As I’ve said before, you can expect we will keep delivering on great prices in electronics.  You bet we want to be competitive — and especially this year show students (and moms) we know they care about both the price and the product!

    RH

    The Tools Of My Trade

    I spend a majority of my day developing web applications for my business I wanted to tell you a little about the tools I use. I pretty geeky and cheap so the software on my workstation is primary resource based. I do have FrontPage, dreamweaver, but I would rather write my own code. I use a little application called Jedit primary. It’s basically like notepad with tons of add-ons. In addition to that I use SQL Manager to maintain my SQL servers and table. besides those two which I use day in day out. I just started developing for ASP.net so I using a GUI tool called Visual Web Developer Express edition of course because it’s free. my teammates have faster, nicer workstations but I use a Dell Optiplex GX280 SFF it’s small lite and I don’t know any other department in my company that has them besides mine.

    Dell Optiplex GX280 SFF Configuration:

    • Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
    • 512MBytes DDR2-SDRAM
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional

    Oh and Additional Applications I use a lot:

    Filezilla
    WinVnc
    GIMP

    Schaumburg Junior Chamber Website Redesign

    When The Schaumburg Junior Chamber aka Jaycees needed a new website to replace their old html based site which had not being updated in over 4 years. I turned to a Joomla based solution. Hosted on a Godaddy server I was able to configure and deploy the site within 3 hours. The Schaumburg Jaycees is a leadership development and networking group for adults between the age of 18 and 40 in Schaumburg, Illinois

      Components Used In the site: 
      DOCman – This component allows for the chapter board to post documents for the members to image
      download such as recent newsletters and forms.
      JEvents – This component allows for the chapter board post events to the chapter calendar so
      that the members can keep up to date as to what is happening with in the chapter.
      JoomlaStats – This component allows for the chapter board and myself to monitor web traffic to the
      site. 

    Check out the groups website at http://www.schaumburgjaycees.org