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Posts made in January, 2010

January 29, 2010 Interesting Links

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Tweet Very bored man discovers Nexus One voice-to-text profanity filter January 25, 2010 – What boredom can do Dr. Phil Scolds Farmville Addict [Dr. Phil] January 25, 2010 Nielsen Ratings to Count Online Viewing: Far More Ads Likely to Follow January 25, 2010 Tilda Swinton Would be Thrilled to Play Conan O’Brien January 25, 2010 – LOVE her Super Cool Pictures of Insects January 25, 2010 I like pigs. Dogs look up to us....

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January 22, 2010 Interesting Links

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Tweet U.S. launches first trade probe of 2010 against China (Reuters) January 21, 2010 – More China news TSA told to restart competition for IT infrastructure work January 21, 2010 – Interesting Coming Soon: Solar-Powered iPhones? January 21, 2010 Seven Free & Paid Tools to Help You Work Without Distractions January 21, 2010 – I like the egg timer Seven Free & Paid Tools to Help You Work Without...

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Donate to Help Aid With the Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts

Posted by on Jan 14, 2010 in news, random words | 0 comments

Tweet As everyone knows, Haiti has been devastated by an earthquake. Even as I type this, they are still feeling the aftershocks. The world has come together to aid the people of Haiti in many ways. However, everything starts with people. Even if you can only donate $5, please do so. It would help with the efforts to help. Watching the devastation that has occurred has broken my heart, as so many others. We were put on this world to...

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Boilerplates Can Make Writing Proposals a Breeze

Posted by on Jan 14, 2010 in proposal writing | 0 comments

Tweet After writing a few proposals, you will eventually figure out that it’s easier if you recycle bits and pieces, so that you can reuse them in upcoming ones. It will help your proposal writing efforts to be easier and faster than having to rewrite the same information over and over again. This can be helped by using boilerplates. As you may have guessed, boilerplates are snippets of text that can be reused as many as times as you...

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15 Areas to Think About When Writing Non-Functional Requirements

Posted by on Jan 13, 2010 in business analysis, technical writing | 9 comments

Tweet Non-functional requirements should be defined when you are also creating and writing functional requirements. These are requirements that detail the constraints and quality standards that the system you are building should adhere to. You can find out what these non-functional requirements should be by your experience, interviews, and industry standards. Also, you can use functional use cases to try and discover what non-functional...

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