The Fallacy of Qualified Leads

"We don't get enough qualified leads!" How many times have you heard your VP of Sales make this statement? The common answer from marketing is "we have generated lots of leads, but sales doesn't follow up on them." "But these leads are not qualified", would be the familiar rebuttal from the sales trenches.

Do You Want a Job Created Just For You?

In good times and bad, there are jobs to be had. But if you follow the crowds and apply only for positions advertised in the classifieds or on Internet job sites you're doing what everybody else is doing.

Porting Your MIDlets to New Devices

It is unnecessary to say that many developers are using J2ME to develop their games and enterprise applications to take advantage of the 'write once, run anywhere' paradigm. Who am I do bash this very noble intention, but phones unlike many other types of computer, have no uniform set of memory and storage parameters that improves over time.

XML for UI Description in Flash MX

Unless you've been living under a rock for the last several years, you've no doubt been bombarded with the hype surrounding a simple, plain text technology named XML - eXtensible Markup Language. But even with the books, magazines, and web sites dedicated to XML, many developers still have no idea what XML really is, or even how they can use XML in their applications.

Seven Tips To A Top Site

As a web site owner, I spend a lot of time online. I also spend a lot of time at other sites. These are the top seven tips I have discovered make or break a web site other than its design appeal.