http://www.startupcto.com/ 2010-03-10T07:28:09-05:00 http://www.startupcto.com/ http://www.startupcto.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-02-06T18:29:51-05:00 David Ordal http://www.startupcto.com/applications/doku-wiki/upgrading?rev=1265498991 This document covers the upgrade procedure for StartupCTO (which is run with DokuWiki). It should be performed whenever a new version of DokuWiki is released. * Backup the current StartupCTO DokuWiki directory (twice) tar cvfz ~/backup/scto/scto_full_020510.tar.gz scto cp -Rp scto ~/scto.bak text/html 2010-02-06T18:20:38-05:00 David Ordal http://www.startupcto.com/people/hr/how-to-find-good-tech-folks?rev=1265498438 How do you find good technical people? If you’ve already seen the how to guide on hiring, you’ll know that it is predicated on having a bunch of resumes to pick from. How do you get those? There’s no magic bullet, but here’s what I’ve found generally works the best. Note that this list might be slightly biased toward the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, where I work. If you have local resources for other areas of the country and the world, please add them to the comments field, or email me directl… text/html 2010-02-06T17:54:49-05:00 David Ordal http://www.startupcto.com/processes/business-vs-technical-requirements?rev=1265496889 Have you ever built a widget? No, I’m not talking about one of those Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets, as cool as they are. Nor a Confabulator Widget, or a Yahoo! Widget. I’m talking about a good old-fashioned widget. What’s that, you ask? Surely you don’t need me to explain a widget to you. text/html 2010-01-12T20:08:16-05:00 David Ordal http://www.startupcto.com/backend-tech/going-utf-8-utf8-with-php-and-mysql?rev=1263344896 UTF-8 is a character encoding standard which supports characters for (nearly) all the languages in the world. Older standards, such as US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1, contains only characters for English (US-ASCII) and Western European languages (ISO-8859-1). text/html 2009-12-22T13:05:38-05:00 David Ordal http://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/freebsd-stable-upgrade?rev=1261505138 This outlines how to upgrade your FreeBSD installation to FreeBSD-STABLE. It isn't designed to replace the manual, but is a quick set of crib-notes on how to get the OS upgraded. NOTE: If you just want to update to the latest FreeBSD release, the binary upgrade process is probably the way to go. The FreeBSD folks DO NOT recommend tracking the 'STABLE' branch. text/html 2009-11-15T21:56:36-05:00 David Ordal http://www.startupcto.com/people/hr/sample-job-descriptions/tech-support-engineer?rev=1258340196 NOTE: This is a sample job description for a technical support engineer. You are welcome to copy it for your own use, but you should change it to suit your needs. You probably don't need somebody who has all of these capabilities, and you probably want to put in great info about your own organization.