What is union card check and why should you care?

Union card check, as presented in the dubiously named “Employee Free Choice Act”, is pretty scary stuff for both workers and entrepreneurs alike. The legislation would primarily do two things:

Allow organized labor establishment at any business, regardless of size, with a simple majority. In other words, unionization could be forced on a small business owner [...]

Best of FOSE 2009: My picks

Pat Wittle and I had the pleasure of attending FOSE 2009: day 2 yesterday at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, D.C. We had the pleasure to take in some of the latest and greatest new technology available to government and the private sector. FOSE hosted several hundred exhibitors this year and [...]

PowerPoint Slides on LimeSurvey from CPLUG Talk

Thank you to everyone that came out to the CPLUG meeting tonight to hear Bob Igo and I talk about Magento /VirtualBox and LimeSurvey.
You can download my Introduction to LimeSurvey PowerPoint slides: HERE

Presenting @ CPLUG this evening: LimeSurvey Overview & Demo

I will be presenting an overview and demo of the LimeSurvey open source electronic survey software this evening at 6:30pm for the Central Pennsylvania Linux User Group (CPLUG); we meet at ITT Tech on Eisenhower Blvd in Harrisburg, PA. The meeting details can be found here if you would like to attend: CPLUG Meeting Details
Some [...]

How to get Embarq DSL without local phone service (aka dry loop or “naked” DSL)

I recently moved back to Pennsylvania and the house that I moved to has but one option for high-speed internet: DSL provided by Embarq. Unfortunately, Embarq is not as progressive as their competitors that offer DSL as a standalone service. If you are not savvy about so-called dry-loop DSL (or as Embarq calls it, “naked” [...]

GoDaddy gives away free SSL certs to qualified Open Source projects

GoDaddy.com is giving away free Standard 1-year SSL certificates to help Open Source project managers secure their web sites and data:
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl_opensource.asp?se=%2B&ci=5988