Date: 05/05/06     Keywords: technology, crm

Amcat’s contact center technology has been awarded the “CRM Excellence Award” from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for 2006. The award recognizes how Amcat’s unified contact management system has helped U.S. Rare Coin and Bullion Reserve to more accurately profile customers, identify sales trends & investor opportunities, and schedule appropriate follow-up activities. U.S. Rare Coin and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/crm-excellence-award-bagged-by-amcat/

Date: 05/05/06     Keywords: software, crm, web

InfoParc released version 4.54 of absoluteBUSY web CRM software. It includes a new sales module plus new unlimited keyword/tagging, an interesting feature by all counts. Tagging An unlimited, freely defineable set of markers/tags can be applied to companies, contact persons and projects. These markers/tags can be used to specify properties of an object and make it [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/absolutebusy-web-crm-embraces-tagging/

Date: 05/05/06     Keywords: software, crm

Bill Stevens, Senior Director at Cognos, contends that CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software do not provide proper granularity to enable informed decision making for pharmaceutical industries. At a high level I understand his sentiments as generic CRM and ERP systems are too broad to well address the specific pain-points of pharmaceutical [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-crm-erp-software-unsuitable-for-pharmaceutical-industries/

Date: 05/05/06     Keywords: java, jsp, apache

This is a list of top 10 features missing in Java, features that I think will help Java survive and thrive in 21st century. As Java developers let’s take this occassion to raise our voice and let our demands be heard. Apache-Java (JSP & Servlet) Module. Killing JServ project was probably the single biggest mistake which [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-missing-java-features-or-how-java-can-thrive-in-21st-century/

Date: 05/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

Many of my posts have multiple pages. WordPress today doesn't provide a visible way to add multiple pages to your (single) article / post. I have been asked to explain how I create multiple pages in my articles. Here is the solution. In earlier versions of WordPress there was a quicktag named page (or pages) which [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-create-multiple-pages-in-wordpress-articles/

Date: 05/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

WordPress 2.x (and above) plugin to create multi-paged article. I have been asked several times how I create articles with multiple pages (like this or this). WordPress in recent versions (1.5 and above) does not provide any visible buttons to support multiple pages even though it supports the functionality internally. This plugins enables you to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-multi-page-plugin-wordpress-2x-plugin-to-create-multi-paged-articles/

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: java, jsp

Here is a list of top 10 java features I constantly use and highly recommend; features which makes Java great as a language and platform. JSP & Servlets - Most of java development today is arguably done on JSP & Servlets. It is the most widely used part of EJB specs today. Platform independence - It works [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-java-features-or-what-makes-java-great/

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer of the prestigious SANS institute said that many of the most popular banking sites may be needlessly placing their customers at risk and I agree with him. The key issue is the user login areas that can be found on banking sites like Chase.com or American Express.com which ask users [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/banking-sites-like-chasecom-and-americanexpresscom-security-questioned/

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: security

The security vulnerabilities addressed are: Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information and Denial of Service. Ubuntu has issued an update for thunderbird. It fixes vulnerabilities which can be exploited by to bypass security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, disclose sensitive information and potentially compromise a user's system. via Secunia

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ubuntu-releases-thunderbird-patch-for-highly-critical-vulnerabilities/

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: php

Input passed to the "phpbb_root_path" parameter in "auction/auction_common.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local resources. The vulnerability, discovered by VietMafia, has been confirmed in version 1.3m. Other versions may also be affected. Protection / Solution 1. Disable "register_globals" 2. Edit the source [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/phpbb-auction-module-vulnerable-to-file-inclusion-exploit/

Date: 05/01/06     Keywords: no keywords

The form element input with type text strangely refuses to align with an adjacent image button (input element of type image). The problem is rather hard to solve as regular methods like using align or margin or padding or even adding whitespace to the image fails. Here is a surprisingly simple solution to this problem. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-perfectly-align-image-button-with-html-input-textbox/

Date: 04/30/06     Keywords: spam

I have been using Akismet plugin for about a month. One of the key deficiency of the plugin is occassional false positives (falsely flagging non-spam as spam) & false negatives (failing to identify spam). As a result I need to occassionally check Akismet Spam tab (under Manage) to identify any false positives. Spams / hams are [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/akismet-plugin-update-for-better-spam-ham-identification/

Date: 04/30/06     Keywords: no keywords

Varargs allows variable number of arguments in methods and constructors. Let's start with a simple example. public static void main(String … args) {     for(String arg:args) {         System.out.println(arg);     } } Varargs can be thought of as an array with simplifications. A simple use case is: int sum(int… data) Key Points Method with varargs is called only when no other method signature matches the invocation. Only [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/understanding-varargs-in-java-2-minute-guide-for-non-dummies/

Date: 04/29/06     Keywords: no keywords

Flock created quite a buzz sometime back as a potential Firefox killer. It was that illegitimate child of Firefox which wanted to kill the progenitor. It started off with quite some promise and yet… Flock is built upon Firefox / Mozilla codebase and yet it was incompatible at plugin level (last I checked) which didn't make [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-flock-browser-ready-for-prime-time-yet/

Date: 04/29/06     Keywords: crm

Sales Force Automation is moving from one-size-fits-all solution model (like Siebel or SalesForce) to solutions / products targeted towards specific market segments. For example let's take a look at ResourceOne from CoreTrac. It is a CRM / Sales Force Automation product for community financial institutions like Banks and Credit Unions. It's standard features are: Lead and referral [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sales-force-automation-for-community-financial-institutions-like-banks-and-credit-unions/

Date: 04/29/06     Keywords: microsoft

In an interesting move Microsoft decided to turn off outbound filtering of inbuilt Firewall in Vista by default. Outbound filtering for applications will configurable by enterprise administrators through Group Policy. Microsoft has been previously promoting Vista's firewall as better than XP's because of it's able to stop both incoming attacks and filter outbound traffic. With this move [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mirosoft-vista-firewall-defanged-by-switching-off-outbound-filtering-by-default/

Date: 04/29/06     Keywords: no keywords

The free book on complete eye care by natural, herbal and yogic methods has been updated. More updates are on the pipeline as well as an e-book containing the new version of the book.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-eye-care-book-better-eyesight-through-natural-herbal-and-yoga-updated/

Date: 04/28/06     Keywords: css

I have promised to myself (and CSS reboot guys) that we will update all our blog sites in Taragana Network (like Stem Cell Research Blog, Diabetes Blog, Eye Blog, Law Blog etc., except Simple Thoughts) with a new look and CSS based design. I am hopeful that it will kick some serious a&&. All the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/preparing-for-site-overhaul-and-css-reboot/

Date: 04/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

Most of highly trafficked and highly commented wordpress blogs rely upon some smart caching solution or another. However it may not be enough to prevent slowing down your server if your post(s) are heavily commented upon. This is because smart caching solutions re-create the cache whenever a new comment is posted. Here is a simple [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-improve-performance-of-highly-commented-wordpress-blogs/

Date: 04/22/06     Keywords: java

An educational and entertaining video on Java. Enjoy!

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-is-everywhere-video/