I’ve been working for the last couple of weeks with Drupal, an open source web content management system and am full of so many positive emotions it’s hard to know where to begin. The system is easy to set up, powerful, extendable through a large library of user contributed modules, well documented and easy [...]
At the office, your IT guys probably back up your computer for you or force you to store critical files on a file server that they back up. I’ll write later about how the Institute does backup at a corporate level. The concern of this posting is backing up personal computers.
What are you [...]
The CCIM Institute is become just a little more virtual. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve started replacing aging, single-use servers. Rather than buy another small box for each purpose, we’ve purchased a couple of fast, powerful Dell boxes, installed VMWare, and turned each into a host for several virtual servers.
Currently, we’ve put [...]
It’s been a fun weekend.
I upgraded my Sony Vaio laptop to Windows Vista and my Dell home desktop to Fedora 8. Both upgrades were actually clean installs. Surprisingly (to me, at least), both went smoothly.
The key to the Vaio upgrade was reading the documentation Sony provided. They strongly recommend the “install as a [...]
The Technology Evangelist asks “Will Google replace Microsoft Exchange?“.
He makes a good case that the newly announced IMAP support is about the 10th shoe to drop on Google’s steady march on Microsoft Office and, now, Exchange.
CCIM.NET users: Instructions are at http://www.ccim.net/outlook-imap.pdf
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If you’re put off by the high price of PhotoShop but want features, features, features, get a copy of the free Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Version 2.4 has just been released. Some highlights from the release notes:
The selection tools have been rewritten from scratch to allow resizing of existing selections. Additionally the [...]
Tagged gimp, gnu, image, photoshopIt’s been a long three months. In that time, the staff moved from the 8th floor to the 12th floor. The 8th floor was then gutted and completely rebuilt. We moved back on the 15th and, finally, things have settled down. As part of the move, we also installed a new phone [...]
Tagged social networkIf you’re on the go and looking for a CCIM Designee, point your mobile browser to the CCIM mobile directory at m.ccim.com and select “Find A Professional“. This takes you to the beta version of the mobile platform for our CCIM Partners directory of CCIM Designees.
There are some differences from the “wide screen” version: [...]
Yesterday, August 1, someone pumped 1900+ spam emails to CCIM Designees through our member search system. First, I’d like to apologize to our members for letting that spam through. Second, here’s a bit about how it happened and what we’re going to do about it.
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CCIM chapter websites continue to evolve and will move to an open-source content management system this fall.
The current CCIM chapter websites can be considered Version 3 in a series. The first chapter sites were hosted by LoopNet. In 2002, the sites were moved to Catylist. In January of 2007, we took them in [...]
