Virtually Speaking – Putting Your Best Self Forward for Virtual Meetings

Now, depending on when your community, business, or country enacted a stay-at-home policy, it could be weeks or months since you started working from home. Not surprisingly, the way you “appear” to the world has changed too. As work from home began and communications shifted to virtual calls, most people maintained a level of professionalism … Read more

How do I create a standalone connection pool in Java?

Below is the method I generally prefer to create the connection pool for each database. I am using the BasicDataSource class developed by the Apache Software Foundation and available for free. To work with it you may need to add these JAR files to your classpath: 1. commons-dbcp.jar 2. commons-pooljar 3. commons-collections.jar 4. mysql-connector-java-5.1.5-bin.jar (for … Read more

FTP coming soon

FTP is the protocol that every single web hosting server uses to allow its subscribers and users to upload and download content between their servers. The servers are just computers like the ones you have at home, but much more powerful and with a lot more disk space. The reason they have so much storage … Read more

Protect valuable student gear with Mobile Edge

Mobile Edge protective cases offer excellent organization and optimal portability. As many schools across the United States adopted some form of distance learning this year, students are using laptops and other valuable technology more than ever. As a result, millions of additional sensitive electronic devices need to be protected. Mobile Edge offers the industry’s leading … Read more

The Art of Virtual Leadership – 4 Keys to Leading Remote Workers and Managing Virtual Teams

Many companies believe that one of the biggest challenges they face when implementing a virtual office is managing mobile or remote workers. It’s unfortunate that they let that perception prevent them from reaping the many benefits of a more flexible workspace. Remote management is not fundamentally different from managing people on site. The biggest difference … Read more

The Number One Way To Learn

In general, people are thought to learn in three ways: through observation, through reading, or through experience. Depending on what you’re trying to learn, any of the three methods could be number one. One method, however, has consistently proven to be undoubtedly the best—experience. Each week we post a thought of the week on our … Read more