Posts about IT Strategy
Instead of wasting money on greetings cards which will, ultimately, end up in the bin, Matrix Communications sent out Merry Christmas e-mails and donated the money they would have spent on cards to MacMillan Cancer Support.
Brilliant, and also quite ‘Green’ 🙂
To get OpenOffice to Save in Microsoft Word .doc format by default, follow these steps:
I know that saving in a proprietary format over an open standard is bad practice, but sometimes in Business you need to maintain interoperability with the de facto standard; in this case: Microsoft Word.
Two great resources for IT Professionals from two of the largest IT companies in the world: Intel and Cisco.
[email protected] and Cisco on Cisco are mini-sites designed to showcase how each company handles and deploys their IT internally, with emphasis on best practises and Return On Investment. Check them out:
In a business environment, people who switch from Microsoft Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird often miss having the calendar/task features in Outlook. Fortunately, you can add Calendar and Task functionality to Thunderbird with the Lightning add-on.
If you’ve ever tried to enter a 16 digit credit card number all in one blob, you’ll know it’s hard. To make life easier for the person responsible for processing online credit card orders, I needed to split up the credit card number and insert a space every 4 characters.
I’m not very schooled up on RegEx, and after spending ages searching for how to do it, I came across this:
<?php
echo implode(' ',str_split($credit_card_number,4));
?>
Hopefully it saves someone else some time!