PRE-CHAT As always, SuiteCRM is one of my favourite business tools in the free and open software world. I like to describe it as ‘Sales Force on steroids’ because you can do whatever you want with it, basically, since the code is open and community supported. However, once in a while you will hit a road block. This literally took…
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How to Back Up your SuiteCRM Stuff on Ubuntu Server
Been a big fan and user of SuiteCRM for years. Never really did learn how to properly back up from my own server so yeah. Time to do it! Backing up your SuiteCRM MYSQL Database This is not for saving the files (ie. the custom settings you have made to SuiteCRM over the years and all the PDF templates, workflows,…
Installing Nextcloud on Digital Ocean Ubuntu Server Droplet
Disclaimer: As always, my blogs are not supposed to be a well-written piece of technical literature but instead a better-than-crap version of a messy notepad. I hope it’s clear enough to help someone other than myself but I always check them to make sure at least I can understand it, ha. It seems that there is a nice blog written…
GOOD BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS IN OUR FRACTURED AGE
Proper communication is paramount. In the same way that handing someone a cheap, faded, crappy business card paints the wrong picture about your company and brand, a poorly communciated message does the same about yourself as a person. We live in a time when it often feels there are more communication options than people with whom we communicate. Further, those…
Installing Prestashop on Digital Ocean Ubuntu Server
Setting up Prestashop on an ubuntu server is doable and Digital Ocean makes it pretty painless. The background to this post is that I had a sudden need to ‘figure out shopping carts’. I understood from times past it probably isn’t wise to have a shopping cart that intends to scale on a shared cpanel host, even though it’s pretty…
Starting a Company Right with LibreOffice Docs
If you are at a company at the startup phase, and you want to make sure that the company isn’t plagued by proprietary office documents, and to make sure that everyone knows the reason *why* this matters, I have created the attached documents. I will also paste the raw text into this post so you can know what’s in the…
What Equity Should a Child of God Focus On?
Someone I know shared this text message conversation about a business decision really got me thinking: Person A: What do you have to give up to get their $ ? Person B: I don’t care what I have to give up as long as I get a small piece of a much larger pie. I’ve learned success is largely about…
One of the Best Summary Articles About Privacy
I have a great group of people around me. Thoughtful people. Thought-provoking people. People who rub me the wrong way and who challenge me to grow and think critically. These fine people send me articles that they read and most of them are good. But once in a while, one of these articles stops me in my tracks and when…
Pressure Sensitive Conveyor Labeler Troubleshooting: Backing Paper Snaps
There are many reasons why the paper backing of the labels might break I have discovered. Here is my list (and I may edit this from time to time as I discover more ways label paper can break!): Rips at the peeler plate in a nearly perfect line Plate angle is too harsh: try reducing the angle and making it…
Is Gmail Safe to use ‘Just for Business’?
No. Google is *not* safe to use ‘just for business’, I confirmed clearly today. About seven or eight years ago when I moved my whole life over from proprietary operating systems to Ubuntu, I was still using services like Gmail, Google search engine, Twitter, and a few other ‘services’ like these every day within the Ubuntu environment. Thankfully, I had…