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Creating applications in SharePoint

Creating applications in Windows SharePoint Services is fairly easy.  Even if you don't know how to code, SharePoint provides an easy enough framework to build business applications that are useful.

Ticket Tracking Systems
Configuration Databases
Training Systems

It is no picnic in the system administration department, but it does do a lot of things (Office Related) really well. 

DB Construction - Denver's Premier Remodeling Experts

DB Construction is finally up and running!  Wow, this was a fun website.  We did a lot of work, especially in meta to get this one done.

Working with Clients

We have been looking at so many awesome solutions.  Again, definitely overwhelming for a solo artist.  But we are coming along, we have started an account at Get Satisfaction. You can tune into our customer support discussions by visiting us @ http://getsatisfaction.com/the_dawson_office.

Working slowly to get this business online, so keep checking the site, and looking at some of the solutions we provide.  

Minutes from The Dawson Office

Putting together a business for me hasn't been easy. I am trying to follow all kinds of roads and am having trouble focusing on some main aspects. I struggled with finding a good business name, but finally came up with The Dawson Office.

I will be creating the website within the month and you can check on it at www.thedawsonoffice.com. It is going to have to be a well designed and impressive site. I plan to integrate many Flash elements into the design, as well as keep it optimized for Search Engines.

I am realizing that there is so much to a domain name when it comes to Search Engine Optimization and internet marketing. The Dawson Office is a pretty strong name. It is short enough to be easy to remember and type (as opposed to The Dawson Enterprise). I think that I can easily get it up to #1 on Google without any expensive SEO campaigns.

Anyway, I'm working hard. I am still on contract at LM and have taken on several clients. I have recently finished a Small Biz CMS at www.havana-granite.com. They are on google under keyword "havana granite" "havana-granite" . Bing still hasn't picked it up, and haven't really checked on Yahoo yet.

Next time..

PS - I love Windows 7

What an amazing OS! I was really struggling with the decision to leave Microsoft and jump on the Linux bandwagon. My web server is running Ubuntu 9.04, and I set up multiple flavors of Linux as workstations. I really like Linux, but for media, publishing and entertainment it has a long way to go. Applications such as GIMP are really great, but just don't compare to a nice Adobe CS4 Design studio on top of Windows 7.

I am running a Core i7 processor with 12gb RAM so the design studio is definitely more like a server. I have 2 RAID configurations (RAID 0 on boot, RAID 5 for Data) going on the workstation and that allows for something called Fault Tolerance. Basically, if one hard drive fails the others in the RAID would still work for me, and I wouldn't lose any data on the computer.

On the machine, at any given time, I have about 20 applications going. You can see them in the taskbar. At the time of the Screenshot I was using about 6 gb of RAM. The 8 processors are barely working (because all I am really doing is blogging).

Back

Haven't been able to update for a while, but still here. Check back soon.

Stampede!

I got left at home tonight for the Stampede!  Ladies night, and no Dan?  Wtf.  

Just downloaded Chrome
http://www.google.com/chrome -

I've been playing with it for a while now but now that I look at it the little green, red, yellow, blue thing thing kinda looks like a jacked up security camera. Is google spying on us? Decide for yourself.
Check out this blog for http://blogoscoped.com/.

Oh Nine, 09, o-9…

Welcome to ’09. Although very trying for me, last year was wonderful. First off, I have to say thanks to my beautiful daughter, Rylea. She brought something into my life that I had been lacking. I don’t exactly know how to explain it, but anyone who has their own can relate. I have been more focused than I had ever thought possible now that I have someone else depending on the results of my decisions. I want to thank the writers at GeekDad for making it easier for me to dream about her childhood and all the cool and constructive things we’ll get to do together. Every single one of her smiles is like the best gift I’ve ever seen.

My family is awesome, and thank to them for every bit of support that they’ve given me. I don’t want to get to personal here (some things are still sacred) but just know that my family is everything to me. I am looking for the best ways to deal with them because they are also my most difficult occupation.

My business is doing okay, my full time job is pretty good too. Although the business is highly political, disorganized, and seems to lack accountability, it is stable. The people that I get to work with are really amazing in their own ways. I hope that we manage to stay in touch and have several opportunities to work with them.

With apps like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and this Blogger account those relationships are easier to maintain than they ever had been. On Facebook for instance, I got in touch with a buddy that had been a friend in middle school and high school, and now he lives around the corner from me with his two kids and wife. Our parents actually grew up together in the same neighborhood.

So, here’s to the New Year. I wish everyone the best, and encourage them to be the best that they can be in whatever they are striving for.

XP - Vista Downgrading

Been trying to downgrade vista xp.  Client requires it.   Going to try out the following thread from MS.  Notice the timeframe for an expert to respond on this one! 

"David8987604 - 

Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 6:31:37 PM

I have a new IBM X60 notebook with 80GB SATA HD which comes with Vista BE. How could i downgrade it to XP Prof. as the IBM doesn't come with any restore CD. I have the media & installation ID on the XP Prof. 

Thanks"

Month and a half later: 

Carey FrischMVP - 

Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:02:47 PM

Installing Windows XP on a computer that currently is running any edition of Windows Vista requires a "clean install".  This is accomplished by booting form the Windows XP CD, deleting the hard drive partition containing the Windows Vista installation, then creating a new partition and formatting the partition NTFS.  Detailed instructions can be viewed here:

 

How to Perform a Clean Install of Windows XP:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

After your clean install of Windows XP is accomplished, please visit the Windows Update web site to download all the latest updates for Windows XP."

New Album I'm checking out. Haven't heard from these guys in a while. Axel's still a dick.

Importing my blog into Blogger

All I had to do was copy everything on my Wordpress page and paste it into new post here. Pretty easy. Although it did retain all the links from Wordpress, it also kept the Wordpress links. Oh well, go check out my Wordpress blog at:

http://danielson1.wordpress.com/

From Word Press

Skydiving

September 3, 2008 by danielson1

Skydiving was pretty awesome. I have always wanted to do it, and I finally got to go Saturday. Here are some pictures:

Hangin out before the jump

All suited up with my suger mama

no butterflies… gotta stay frosty

the rig..

some Top Gun fo’ ya

and a little more…

doin this move all day..

and now Im landing…

GOOD TIME!!
Mile High Skydiving
Freestyle Swoop Contest Pics
sponsored by go-fast

and this car…

SWOOPERS!
Swooper 1

Swooper 1 eating shit

Swooper 2 - It’s A Chick

and her landing

Swooper 3 - Superman

and the landing..

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Effin’ dope

September 2, 2008 by danielson1

So I put together a computer about a couple of weeks ago that I had to write about. Or at least show some pictures of:

eff yea….

computer,quad,core,pentium,raid,cod4,sweet

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Hello world!

September 2, 2008 by danielson1

28… and what?

Turned 28 today. It seems like my life is passing by so quickly. I bet a lot of people say that type of shit. I’m having fun though. Rylea is awesome, and so is Britt. She took me skydiving for the first time on Saturday. It was effin’ sweet.
I have a bunch of blogs going. But I am starting to use Contribute and hopefully they will be easier to manage, or it’s even possible that I will collapse everything into Blogger & WordPress,
I recently rebuilt my computer so I will talk about all that soon. I have some great pics, but I still haven’t figured out a good solution for pics. Probably Flickr. Stay tuned.

Meow Meow

28... and what?

Turned 28 today.  It seems like my life is passing by so quickly.  I bet a lot of people say that type of shit. I'm having fun though. Rylea is awesome, and so is Britt.

I have a bunch of blogs going.  But I am starting to use Contribute and hopefully they will be easier to manage, or it's even possible that I will collapse everything into Blogger & Wordpress,

I recently rebuilt my computer so I will talk about all that soon. I have some great pics, but I still haven't figured out a good solution for pics.  Probably Flickr. Stay tuned.  There should be a lot of cool information to come, but for now I am going to go enjoy my mom's prime rib, and chit chat with my pop.  Hopefully his website www.dbcodenver.com won't come up (cuz it's jacked right now). :p