And the third time I’m importing the same database over and over again. On step 3 of 5 I found some inconsistencies. It looks like we have a lot of contact details with missing data. The biggest problems is that people don’t want to fill the information. They don’t care about internal structure (well, it’s [...]
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Third time is the charm
July 29th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
One more CRM migration
July 28th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
Today I’ve started another migration of company data from one CRM to another. Last time I did it from Goldmine 6.0 to MS CRM 3.0. This time the task is much easier: from CRM 4.0 to CRM 4.0. List of Things to migrate: customisations and special fields account data with all account details, notes and [...]
DLNA vs HTPC
July 21st, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
The first question after buying a TV was: what exactly am I supposed to watch? I’ve never actually watched any broadcast TV-channels in by life. Of course, I love TV-shows and movies, I just don’t like the channels itself. Too many commercials, not enough choice. I prefer to get the content via the Internet. This makes the problem [...]
Marketing requirements – Technical requirements
July 8th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
Today I’ve spend half of the day meeting with a web development company. They use a very nice way to convert from MRD (Marketing Requirements Document, which is basically list of features, which sales and marketing want to have implemented in the product) to TRD (Technical Requirements Document, which is a description of functions, procedures [...]
Domain registration fees
June 29th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
The situation with domain name registration should follow the same rules, as with the web SSL-certificates. Why should they charge a lot of money for the job, which is actually is just a query to a database. Like, for example, storing and changing a DNS name. Especially when there is a competition. Prices must inevitably [...]
SSL-certificates in 2010
June 17th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
The prices of SSL-certificates is going to change. The server certificates will be cheaper, much cheaper. Currently you can spend from $10 (ten) up to $2500 for a certificate. Very interesting question, why such big difference? Some time ago I worked for a company, which positioned itself on a paranoid academic level of security. The [...]
Planning vs Execution
June 12th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
There are hundreds of books about planning. People want to be mobile and effective. Work more, earn more, die rich! I find it very positive, the opposite would be “Work less, stay sick, die miserably”. There are also a lot of programs on PC, which help you to get your planning right. I’m not talking [...]
Marketeers are telling stories
June 8th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
Marketers are telling stories, said Seth Godin. Actually he said, they’re all liars, but in a good way. They make story in their mind and telling it to the world. The story may or may not be true, it doesn’t really matters. But sometimes they get carried away in their stories and forget the borders. [...]
Foursquare – drawing the line to privacy
June 7th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
More of my friends are starting with the newest Social Network gizmo – Foursquare. I like social networking (one of the reason, I’m writing it). Other people don’t like it and their major concern is often – privacy issues. People don’t like to share intimate information (for some reasons). Yet another people went even further [...]
CMS for a small site
June 4th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
3-4 years ago for a small website project (around 50 pages in 3 languages plus news) I’ve chosen Joomla! (the exclamation mark is not displaying my overwhelming emotions towards the product, it’s actually part of the name) I didn’t do the design template myself, this is a bit too technical for me (or may be [...]
