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I've started using the phrase digital professional, in particular in my recent article dinging Amazon's cloud division Amazon Web Services (AWS) for not having a clear digital strategy. However, I haven't been very clear on what I mean, so it's time to put a finer point on this terminology.
The role of digital professional begins back in the 1990s with the rise of the web professional: people who worked on web sites in some capacity. Some of them were technical, able to sling HTML or JavaScript or perhaps Perl back in the day.
Others were designated as creatives, including graphic designers and the like. A third subset of the web professional community were the marketing people: hammering out web strategies, focusing on key performance indicators like conversions and churn, and figuring out how to communicate to users using this newfangled World Wide Web of ours.
And finally, there were the information architects, designing page flows and form interactions, making sure site maps made sense and navigation worked as expected.
On Beyond the Web
Cut to 2014, and the digital professional sports all these roles and more. Today digital is much more than the web, as it also comprises mobile, social media, and a burgeoning class of newer technology touchpoints that are currently undergoing a phase of rapid, disruptive innovation – everything from iBeacons to thermostats and other consumer-facing parts of the Internet of Things (IoT). We might classify anybody who works in any of these areas as a digital professional.
However, in spite of its technology-centric label, digital is not really about the technology per se. What's important about digital today is the fact that customer preferences and behavior are driving organizations' technology choices – most notably in the B2C world, but also in B2B as well.
Digital transformation, therefore, includes more than technology change. The real transformation is organizational, as customers are driving enterprises to change the way they do business in fundamental ways.
Transforming the Role of Marketing
This transformative nature of digital predictably impacts the roles of digital professionals. While the first-generation web was first and foremost a marketing channel, digital goes well beyond marketing – or from another perspective, marketing itself is undergoing a digital transformation.
If we define marketing broadly as the part of an organization responsible for communicating with current and prospective customers, then digital is shifting and expanding the roles of marketing to include data scientists, engineers, and architects of many varieties, as well as operational personnel, both on the business side as well as within IT.
As a result, digital teams tend to be cross-organizational. For innovative enterprises, these teams should be self-organizing and only loosely connected to the management hierarchy of the rest of the organization. Most importantly, digital teams should not contain only techies. They should have a mix of different skillsets from different parts of the organization, where ideally the team self-selects and self-organizes to tackle the task at hand.
Will Everyone Be a Digital Professional?
My definition of the digital professional is necessarily quite inclusive. However, while it might sound like everyone in the organization falls into this category, such an eventuality is unlikely and often undesirable. Certainly, as enterprises ramp up their digital transformation efforts, most of the organization will have a much broader variety of roles and goals than the members of the digital teams.
Even as digital transformation takes hold, I would expect only some organizations to end up essentially becoming all-digital. True, it's possible some web-scale companies may fall into this extreme case (Netflix and Spotify come to mind as possibilities), but it's unreasonable to expect every bank or manufacturer or government agency to transform into the next Netflix.
Nevertheless, even for traditional enterprises, digital transformation will spread horizontally across the organization, recasting and re-purposing people as they shift from their traditional roles to becoming digital professionals. You don't need to be a techie in IT, and you don't need to be a web guru to qualify. But you do need to focus on the shifting needs and preferences of your customer.
With the recent release of Visual Studio 2015 Preview, the on premise Release Management feature is now introduced in Visual Studio Online. Release management allows you to create a release pipeline and orchestrate the release of your application to different environments. Using the Visual Studio Online edition for release management allows you to scale your release operations on demand and realize the benefits of using a cloud based service.
The Visual Studio Release Management client is what you will still use to configure releases in your Visual Studio Online account.
Specify your Visual Studio Online URL to connect and start configuring the release template. There are four stages to configuring release management in Visual Studio Online.
You could potentially define your stages as testing (/ QA), pre-production (/ UAT), and then finally production. Configure these under the stage types as shown below. The goal is to configure them in the line up to production which is the ultimate release you will manage.
In addition, you can also optionally specify the technology types to determine what is supported by each environment.
Next step, you should configure your environment for release. If this is a Microsoft Azure environment, then you can directly retrieve the details from your subscription as illustrated below.
If you have PowerShell scripts from an existing application to deploy to an environment, you can use them directly without using an agent. Alternatively you can also use an agent to deploy.
Next step you can define custom actions that you will use during the release management process. Predefined release management actions for some common activities are already available with the client and are supported in Visual Studio Online as the following figure shows:
You are now all set to create the release template components and then use them to build an automated or approval based release process.
The release template provides a workflow style interface to allow you configure different stages in the release pipeline. You can also use tagging to allow reusing stages across environments.
Visual Studio 2015 is bringing a host of new additions including significant ones around developer productivity. Watch out for a future post on them!
OK all you techies, time to go back to English class. The word "data" is the plural of "datum." If you use either word improperly, I'll hit your knuckles with a ruler, so pay attention.
Wrong: This data is important.
Right: These data are important.
Wrong: Big data is useful when we use it properly.
Right: Big data are useful when we use them properly.
Wrong: Which piece of data am I looking at?
Right: Which datum am I looking at?
And so on. Now, before you freak out and realize your entire existence has been meaningless up to this point because you never saw a datum in your life, relax. Most language experts admit that correctness follows common usage, and since people commonly use the word "data" as though it were singular, that means it's OK to do so. So carry on, you wretched English destroyers, you.
Common usage or not, treating "data" as plural is still correct. It's up to you whether you wish your language to be correct, and presumably, as long as people understand you then it doesn't matter in many situations. But in other situations, it's important to be correct – or at least to know what is correct, so that if you break the rules, you do so intentionally.
In my writing, I predictably use the word "data" quite frequently, and I endeavor to use it properly every time. And while correctness is important to me, I'm willing to break rules when I feel like it. After all, the previous sentence began with "and," now didn't it? In the case of "data," however, I stick to the rule book for a particular reason.
Data, you see, are inherently plural. When we have a data set, we have a set of many things, not just one thing. In many cases those data are varied and diverse. Especially in today's big data world, our data are likely to be quite heterogeneous. Referring to them in the plural, therefore, emphasizes both the diversity and the discreteness of our data.
"Information," however, is a collective noun. We cannot count our information the way we can count our data. We never say "informations" – and for good reason. Information is fluid. It's difficult to quantify, unless we break it down into data first. And most importantly, information depends upon the recipient: data only become information if there is at least potentially a person on the receiving end that can understand it. Otherwise they're just noise.
Each datum can be thought of as made up of individual bits or bytes, concrete units that we can count, move, and calculate with. Information, in contrast, must inform – an essential abstraction of the data that brings humans into the loop. Emphasizing this distinction is why I always treat "data" as plural. Break this rule if you wish, but remember, I still have my ruler.
I attended a Business Architecture/Enterprise Architecture power panel yesterday at the Building Business Capability conference in Miami. Since I knew two of the panelists personally, I expected a lively conversation—and in that respect I wasn't disappointed.
However, there was one word that nobody mentioned the entire session, neither panelists nor audience members: agility.
From my perspective, agility is—or at least, should be—the primary driver for Enterprise Architecture (EA), as well as Business Architecture, for that matter. But no one seemed to be on the same page.
True, there was a discussion of change, and John Zachman did state that the primary reason to do EA is to help organizations change. But no one suggested that EA should help organizations become better at dealing with change. And therein lies the critical distinction.
EA (as well as Business Architecture) have long clung to the "final state" myth. If we can define a final state and help the organization get there, then we can consider ourselves successful. By then, of course, the desired state will have changed, so we pick up our skirts and rush to the new destination, bouncing from one purported final state to another, as though we were trying to pounce on some kind of enterprise leprechaun moving his pot of gold.
It's time to stop the madness! Jumping from one illusory goal to another doesn't serve our organizations well. Instead, let's raise our game. Focus on embracing change. Live it. Breathe it. That's what business agility is all about.
And for what it's worth, nobody mentioned the word innovation, either. Why am I not surprised?
Web Components are redefining the way you build for the web! They are touted to be the future of web development and are definitely showing a lot of promise. Web Components allow you to build widgets that can be used reliably and will be resilient to changes in the future—as opposed to the current approach of building them using HTML and JavaScript.
The real issue in the current approach with HTML and JavaScript is that the widgets that are build using them are not truly encapsulated in the DOM from one another, leading to cross references and ultimately errors in the rendered layout. You cannot easily isolate content from the widget presentation, making it difficult to build widgets that can be reused in a reliable fashion.
Web Components expose some powerful features like Shadow DOM and Templates that are built for DOM encapsulation and reuse in the form of widget templates allowing you to separate content from the infrastructure. Note that Web Components are designed around HTML and JavaScript, so there is no new skill you need to learn to start leveraging them right away.
<template id="detailsTagTemplate">
<div class="details">
The JavaScript code will look like:
document.querySelector('#detailsTag').textContent = [your message goes here];
This can create magic by dynamically allowing you to project different content inside the details DIV tag. The template element is never rendered and the content tag replaces the text content with your message. This combination opens up a plethora of opportunities, letting you create reusable widgets and use them in your applications without having to worry about cross references.
The latest cyberattack to hit the news is POODLE (Padding Oracle on Downgraded Legacy Encryption). While POODLE wins points for both the cutest title and including Oracle in its name, I'm cheering it on for a different reason.
POODLE compromises the obsolete protocol SSL 3.0. That alone wouldn't be a big deal, but it's sneakier than that, since it tricks browsers and other applications that use more recent, more secure transport-layer security protocols to downgrade to SSL 3.0, thus becoming vulnerable to attack.
The best way to protect yourself from POODLE is to disable SSL 3.0 across your entire IT environment – servers, browsers, the lot.
And that's why I'm cheering. You see, the bane of many an IT manager's and web developer's existence is Internet Explorer Version 6. This browser version has been obsolete for years, but numerous enterprises still insist on remaining standardized on it. It doesn't support HTML 5, which is one of the many reasons web developers hate it. But that deficiency alone hasn't forced shops to switch browsers.
The good news, however, is that IE 6 doesn't support any transport-layer security protocol newer than SSL 3.0. So not only can POODLE drive a big truck through IE 6's security defenses, but now every IT shop must disable all SSL 3.0 support to protect the rest of its applications. And that means finally getting rid of IE 6 once and for all.
As I built my first Web site – and wrote my first article about the Web – back in 1995, I have the privilege of counting myself among the senior citizens of the Internet. So for all you young pups out there, gather around and let grandpa tell you a scary story, just in time for Halloween.
Once upon a time, there was a speculative bubble, as more and more people saw the stocks of fledgling dot.coms go up and up, in spite of the fact that many of them hadn't turned a profit, and in fact, several didn't really have any viable plans to do so. But we all started believing our own hype, and the VCs and other investors piled on, and companies who rushed to go public saw insane ramp-ups of their stock prices, mostly on the relatively new NASDAQ market.
Until, of course, the speculative bubble burst, and the whole shebang came crashing down, taking with it the fortunes of many established technology players as well as the telcos, leading to what I snarkily like to call "Bush Recession #1" around 2001.
But while dot.com darlings like Kozmo, Boo.com, and TheGlobe.com are relegated to the history books, others like Amazon.com, Google, eBay, and Yahoo are still with us. It took a few years, but the technology and telco sectors are now going full steam, in spite of the financial crisis and – you guessed it – the 2007 – 2009 "Bush Recession #2" (two recessions, same Bush). But while the financial crisis hit banking and real estate, it only presented a speed bump on the road to today's insane technology run up, as the all-time NASDAQ chart below will attest.
That ominous spike around 2000 was the dot.com bubble, of course. The little dip around 2008? Well, that was Bush Recession #2, aka the financial crisis.
Sure Signs of a Bubble
As we complete our scary Halloween story, the question now is, do we live happily ever after? Direct your attention if you will to what's happened with the NASDAQ since the last recession. A rather sharp run up, wouldn't you say? Now my crystal ball is no clearer than anyone else's, but my bet is that we're in the midst of yet another speculative bubble – and all bubbles pop sooner or later.
I'm no financial analyst, but I do follow the technology marketplace, and I have the perspective of someone who lived through the dot.com bubble. The reason I make such a dire prediction isn't primarily based on the chart above, but rather the following similarities between what's going on today and the period during the dot.com run up.
Crazy Money: Acquisitions. In "normal" times, a small tech company with a few dozen people and no profits might sell for a few million bucks. Well, you don't have to be an avid reader of the financial press to know that there have been a series of such acquisitions, only in the billions of dollars. Facebook picked up WhatsApp for a cool $19 billion. Google buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion. Facebook again using its clout to buy Instagram for the bargain basement price of only a billion – to name a few.
These transactions in and of themselves aren't necessarily the primary indicator of a speculative bubble. Rather, it's the effect they have on other small tech companies and the people who work for them – or who might want to join such a company. When people start or work for companies because they see them as lottery tickets with billion dollar jackpots, rather than opportunities to make some money solving problems for customers, you have a huge "party like it's 1999" red flag on your hands.
Crazy Money: Investments. Remember Zefer? No? Well, listen to Grandpa again. Zefer was one of a group of dot.com consulting darlings we liked to call iBuilders (I worked for a time at another iBuilder, USWeb/CKS, which became spectacular dot.com flameout marchFIRST, but I digress.) Zefer made history back in 1999 when they snagged a $100 million VC investment – unheard of at the time for a professional services firm.
Today, $100 million is chump change. So far this year alone, we've seen VC investments of $1.2 billion for Uber. $325 million for Dropbox. $250 million for Lyft. $200 million for AirBnB. $160 million for Pinterest. $160 million for Cloudera. $158 million for Box. And too many deals in the $100 million range to list (numbers from here). And those are just some 2014 deals – many of these companies had received many tens or hundreds of millions in earlier rounds.
And just what are these companies supposed to do with all this green? Grow. Big. And fast. The VCs are looking for "multiple baggers" – a simple 10% or 20% return on investment isn't good enough for this group of one percenters, oh no. They want to multiply their investments many times over. 1000%. 2000%. Those are the returns they're really hoping for.
When investors put $10 million into a company hoping to get $100 million out that's one thing. But just what will that NASDAQ chart have to look like for the investments like the ones above to pay off? Might as well invest in tulips.
Hype about Hype. Hype – which I might define as overblown rhetoric touting products or services with a limited current value proposition – is a common phenomenon at all times, and doesn't necessarily indicate a speculative bubble. But when we start seeing hype about the hype, that's when my alarm bells go off. Case in point: when The Motley Fool investing site publishes an article entitled Believe the Hype: The Internet of Things Is No Gimmick, then in my opinion, it's time to sell all your stock in the market in question, which in this case is the ridiculously overhyped Internet of Things.
How to Mitigate the Fallout
The great thing about playing musical chairs is we all have a seat until the music stops. So get while the getting is good to be sure. Also remember that it's anybody's guess whether a correction in the technology marketplace (or the broader digital marketplace, as the Ubers and AirBnBs of the world aren't really technology plays) will lead to a broader market recession. After all, unemployment in the US has been going down steadily for years (yes, the "Obama Recovery," naturally), and the Federal Reserve has yet to even start raising interest rates to cool inflation, both signs that we have a good while to go before the broader market cools.
In the meantime, my advice is the same advice I'd give any business at any time – only during speculative run ups, this advice becomes even more important: focus on the fundamentals. Businesses exist to serve their customers. Customers pay for products and services they want or need, and companies make money by providing them at prices customers are willing to pay. So simple, and yet so easy to forget during times of insanity. Keep your eye on your customer and you'll do OK – even if everyone else is partying like it's 1999.
Docker has sort of revolutionized the micro-services ecosystem since its first launch little more than a year back. The recent announcement from Microsoft about the partnership with Docker is a significant move, with some even calling it the best thing that has happened to Microsoft since .NET. This partnership will allow developers to create Windows Server Docker containers!
What is interesting is that this move will produce a mixed bag of efforts and investment directly from the Windows Server product team, as well as from the open source community that has been championing the cause for Docker. Thus getting it a serious footprint in the world of distributed applications enabling development, build, and distribution.
Dockerized apps for Linux containers on Windows Azure have already been in play for a while now. With this new initiative, Windows Server based containers will see the light of day. This is very exciting for developers as it will allow them to create and distribute applications on a mixed platform of both Linux and Windows. To align with the Docker platform, Microsoft will focus on the Windows Server Container infrastructure that will allow developers in the .NET world to share, publish and ship containers to virtually any location running the next gen Windows Server, including Microsoft Azure. The following initiatives have been worked out:
This partnership should silence the reservations critics had regarding the success of the Docker platform and will be a great win for developers in the .NET world!
At Intellyx our focus is on digital transformation, so I spend a lot of my time helping digital professionals understand how to leverage the various technology options open to them to achieve their customer-driven business goals.
Who is a digital professional? People with titles like Chief Digital Officer, VP of Ecommerce, VP of Digital Marketing, or even Chief Marketing Officer – in other words, people who are marketers at heart, but who now have one foot solidly in the technology arena, as they're on the digital front lines, where customers interact with the organization.
One of the most important activities that enables me to interact with such digital professionals is attending conferences on digital strategy. To this end I have been attending Innovation Enterprise conferences – first, the Digital Strategy Innovation conference a few weeks ago in San Francisco, and coming up, the Big Data and Marketing Innovation Summit in Miami November 6 – 7.
Full disclosure: Intellyx is an Innovation Enterprise media sponsor, and I'm speaking at the upcoming conference as well as chairing the first day – but choosing to be involved with these conferences was a deliberate decision on my part, as the digital professional is an important audience for Intellyx.
Nevertheless, my traditional and still core audience is the IT professional. Most of the conferences I attend are IT-centric, even though the digital story is driving much of the business activity within the IT world as well as the marketing world.
Even so, I find most tech conferences suffer from the same affliction: the echo chamber effect. By echo chamber I mean that tech conferences predictably attract techies – and for the most part, only techies. The exhibitors are techies. The speakers are techies. And of course, the attendees are techies. The entire event consists of techies talking to techies.
The exhibitors, therefore, are hoping that some of the techies that walk by their booth are buyers, or at least, influencers of the technology buying decision. And thus they keep exhibiting, hoping for those hot leads.
There were exhibitors at the Digital Strategy Innovation show as well – mostly marketing automation vendors, with a few marketing intelligence vendors mixed in. In other words, the vendor community expected the digital crowd to be interested solely in marketing technology. After all, the crowd was a marketing crowd, right?
True, that digital crowd was a marketing crowd, but that doesn't mean their problems were entirely marketing problems. In fact, the audience was struggling much more with web and mobile performance issues than marketing automation issues.
So, where were the web and mobile performance vendors? Nary a one at the Digital Strategy Innovation summit – they were at the O'Reilly Velocity show, a conference centered on web performance that attracts, you guessed it, a heavily technical crowd.
What about the upcoming Big Data and Marketing Innovation Summit? True, there are a couple of Big Data technology vendors exhibiting, but the sponsorship rolls are surprisingly sparse. We media sponsors actually outnumber the paying sponsors at this point!
So, where are all the Big Data guys? At shows like Dataversity's Enterprise Data World, yet another echo chamber technology show (although more people on the business side come to EDW than to shows like Velocity).
The moral of this story: the digital technology buyer is every bit as likely to be a marketing person as a techie, if not more so. For vendors who have a digital value proposition, centering your marketing efforts solely on technology audiences will miss an important and growing market segment.
It's just a matter of time until vendors figure this out. If you're a vendor, then who will be the first to capitalize on this trend, you or your competition?
In one of the previous blog posts, I introduced DocumentDB - Microsoft's debut into the world of NoSQL databases. You learned how it is different for being a JSON document only database. You also learned to create an instance of DocumentDB in Azure.
In the previous post, you used NuGet to install the required packages to program against DocumentDB in a .NET application. Today let's explore some of the programming constructs to operate on an instance of DocumentDB.
First step is to create a repository to allow you connect to your instance of DocumentDB. Create a repository class and reference the Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client namespace in it. The Database object can be used to create an instance. The following code illustrates:
Database db = DbClient.CreateDatabaseAsync(new Database { Id = DbId } ).Result;
Here DbClient is a property of type DatabaseClient exposed by Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client API in your repository class. It provides the method CreateDatabaseAsync to connect to DocumentDB. You need to have the following key values from your instance of DocumentDB in azure:
You can create an instance of DocumentClient using the following construct:
private static DocumentClient DbClient
Uri endpointUri = new Uri(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["endpoint"]);
return new DocumentClient(endpointUri, ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["authKey"];
Next you need to create a Document Collection using the method CreateDocumentCollectionAsync.
DocumentCollection collection = DbClient. CreateDocumentCollectionAsync ( Database.SelfLink, new DocumentCollection { Id = CollectionId } ).Result;
You are now all set to perform DocumentDB operations using the repository. Note that you need to reference Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Linq to use Linq constructs for querying. Here is an example:
var results = DbClient.CreateDocumentQuery<T>(collection.DocumentsLink);
Note that whatever entity replaces type T, the properties of that entity must be decorated with JsonProperty attribute to allow JSON serialization.
To create an entry you can use the CreateDocumentAsync method as shown here:
DbClient.CreateDocumentAsync(collection.SelfLink, T);
In a similar fashion, you can also use the equivalent update method to update the data in your instance of DocumentDB.
Beyond .NET, DocumentDB also provides libraries to allow using JavaScript and Node.js. The interesting aspect is it allows T-SQL style operations such as creation of stored procedures, triggers, and user defined functions using JavaScript. You can write procedural logic in JavaScript, with atomic transactions. Performance is typically very good with JSON mapped all the way from the client side to DocumentDB as the unit of storage.


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8216 University Station Circle
Charlotte, NC 28269
(704) 557-6778
Legacy Limousines is certainly no stranger when it comes to being at the top of Charlotte's party bus list. Whether it's a night on the town, a special occasion or a wedding party event, Legacy Limousines yields a consistent and highly recommended reputation among many who like to party safely around the streets of the Queen City. Additionally, Legacy Limousines offers a wide range of quality equipment for the right size and type of events. The pricing, which ranges from $150 to $175 per hour, is very competitive and reasonable considering the quality.
Party Bus Charters
6712 Freedom Drive
Charlotte, NC 28214
(704) 399-9393
Party Bus Charters, another reputable party bus option for the Queen City, offers an interesting array of equipment, with strong emphasis placed on charters and parties. This emphasis includes a fleet ranging from above-average, immaculate party buses to the double-decker buses for tours that many a Queen City party bus connoisseur would be proud to ride in. PBC's prices from $300 to $3,000 per job.
(866) 786-7579
www.classacttransportation.net Class Act Transportation falls in the middle among Charlotte's party ride line-up as it has a wide variety of reasonably prices party bus and charter services. These services include city tours, executive transportation, party buses and more. These services are delivered via CAT's premiere equipment, which includes anything from what CAT refers to as a Prom Party Bus, an Ultimate Party Bus, a Wedding Party Bus or a Limo Party Bus. It is all topped off with reasonable party rental rates, ranging from $150 to $300 per hour.
Related: Party Bus to Beyoncé in Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28219
(704) 576-5309
American Limousine is a responsible company that prides itself in being the most professional, prompt and licensed limousine service around Charlotte, via the Federal Certificate of Authority. It has managed to satisfy smaller party bus loads since 2000. AL's bread and butter lies within its airport limousine services, while ramping up to the 10 to 15 party bus jobs for larger party engagements. AL is also very reasonably priced, with prices ranging from $150 to $1,500 per event. AL appears to be a more viable option for the medium to smaller limousine/party bus option.
(704) 579-0402
Last but not least, United Limousine provides an affordable and reliable party bus option for this Queen City line-up of party rides. UL also prides itself on being fully licensed, prompt and professional with its vehicles being properly permitted by the Charlotte Passenger Vehicle for Hire Department. Although UL may be smaller than the others in the party ride line-up, it appears to be a safe and reliable way to party on a more intimate level and is proven to be a reliable means of both executive and private transportation, with an affordable price range from $50 to $125 per hour.
Douglas Ebert is a freelance writer who covers music and night life in Charlotte. Doug has a passion for discovering local bands with exceptional talent, and enjoys displaying their ability to entertain Charlotte's night life. His work can be found on examiner.com . http://www.examiner.com/music-in-charlotte/douglas-ebert

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nfrPiwiknfrPiwik is a plug-in for entering the tracking-code for piwik-analytics into the current used template of your website.
You have to install Piwik (www.piwik.org) first before using this plug-in. In the params section you just enter the tracking code piwik is given you.
This plug-in is useful if you are switching templates within your site, the tracking code will be written in the current index.php.
This plug-in comes with german and english language files
I use it in both J!2.5.x & J!3.2.x environments. Easy, simple, paste and Go...
Hint: when I installed the plug-in, it appeared as plg_system_piwik in the list (I was looking for nfrPiwik or Piwik). Once I found it, easy to paste Piwik script and activate.
Thanks for the hint; I didn't noticed before; its solved by now with version 3.0.2
- Leave your core files alone
- easy install
Cons: None that I can see
This plugin is perfect to add your PIWIK CODE before the tag, just install, enter your code and forget.
Thank you to the developer.
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Now present in 55 countries and territories worldwide, these Vietnamese businesses have ambitions of expanding their markets even further to increase their profit margins.
Apart from familiar markets such as Laos , Cambodia and Russia , Vietnamese businesses have now also penetrated Africa and Central America .
Of this total overseas investment, $3.4 billion has gone to Laos , mainly into telecommunications, hydroelectricity, transport infrastructure and banking operations.
This also indicates that Vietnam is making an effort to help Laos make the most of its true potential and develop its strengths, so it can improve living standards around the country.
Vietnamese businesses have injected a total of $776 million into small and medium-scaled projects in Russia , mostly focusing on building markets and shopping centres and the processed foods industry.
Other notable projects include a $806 million Ha Se San II hydro power station capable of producing 400 MW, a project to plant rubber trees on 4,000 hectares by the Chu Se Vietnam Rubber JSC in Cambodia and a $408 million telecommunications project in Peru by the military-run telecoms group Viettel.
Viettel is also seen as a leading service provider in Laos and Cambodia .
The MPI said that these projects have all raised sufficient capital and are currently examining local needs and demands as well as the different legal systems in each country.
In recent years the Vietnamese Government has made it much easier for businesses to operate overseas while still managing the flow of investment.
The MPI has been directed to oversee businesses that operate overseas and to adopt measures to ensure the security of foreign currency reserves.
Other promising markets in South Asia, South America, Russia and Southeast Asia are also being scrutinised by the Vietnamese businesses community for possible opportunities in the future.
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Welcome back to the Ron Duprat recap, where we talk about what happened to Broward's own Haitian chef on the last episode of Top Chef. So far, Ron's survived four elimination and four quickfire challenges. But he's currently hugging the bottom rung of contenders. He's never been in real danger of ... More >>
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Rated 4 out of 5 by CSP29 Check-in While the associates registering guests were polite, I never saw enough staff to keep the lines down. Wait time for rooms to be ready varied from 0 to 5 hours. Waiting to get into my room meant that I was not as prepared as I needed to be for meeting with the hotel staff about our convention. I stayed behind the power curve all week as a result. August 4, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by CodyandRiley Indebted to hotel staff / security Very pleased with our one nite stay at this Sheraton NYC location. I am indebted to the hotel staff/security people (thanks Sal!) for finding and forwarding credit and other cards I happened to leave in our hotel room. The Sheraton people were on top of it and I received the credit/other cards via mail in a matter of days - thanks Sheraton! Dave March 18, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Edster1971 Staff, location, room - this property has it all Everything about this property is great - staff (Jade is on top of things, helpful, and remembers your name/room number), location (E line subway in front of hotel), room (received an upgrade). Sadly, the hotel does not participate in "Make a green choice" - here for 7 nights (still here). My rate included free wifi and access to fitness center. April 16, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by havanashirl Great location Hotel was very good for location, room/bed, and hospitality room for SPG members. Manager Anna was very friendly when we checked in and treated us to a free bottle of wine, signature spring water and couple of apples that were sent to our room the first night. We ate at local spots so cannot comment on the restaurants. Overall great experience. September 18, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Mike56 Great location, wonderful amenities My family has stayed at this hotel several times. The breakfast buffet at the club level was perfect for us. It had great fruit and healthy food selections and the attendants were very friendly and efficient. The fitness facility was first class. Among the best! Our check-ins have always been handled quickly and without problem. We shall return July 24, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by Bruno1984 Well located hotel, poor spg recognition This hotel is ideally situated in midtown manhattan. The rooms are very comfortable, but the toilets are quite small and not so easy to use. My spg gold status has not been recognized properly, and I could choose my free gift only upon request. Check-out formalities were long, the agent had issues in finding my e-mail address in my spg account. December 2, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by Floridays Some surprises The lobby was unusually crowded daily. Took over 20 minutes to get an elevator to our room on check in day. Were given wrong times for the club room breakfast at check in. Club level was usually crowded and no seats were available. Location is exceptional but all the other issues make it less than desirable. We will be going back to the Westin. December 10, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Jeanette83 Great location Very small room that was nicely decorated. The thermostat is controlled by movement, when you are in bed sleeping, the room temperature can get very uncomfortable. The morning water pressure and temperature were unacceptable. I couldn't wash my hair. The water was tepid to cold. I really liked the location of the hotel and the customer service. May 3, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Yolo49 Tjhe hotel is well located We arrived at 8:30 pm our room was not ready. Staff gave us a complementaty pass for diner which was ok. The room was finally ready at 10:30. Too long considering I am a paltinum member, i would expect the place to be ready when i come... Anyhow, once we were installed thing got better. April 30, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Patty510 Convenient to ALL NYC attractions! I love the fact that I can walk to almost anywhere, and the subway is right next door! June 18, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by Robert1205 Sheraton Times Square I stay at this hotel often but my most recent stay December 7 -10 was disappointing. Only one out three elevators servicing the 28th floor was working for most of my stay. Access to the lobby and room were therefore difficult with exceptional waits for the one elevator. The bar service was so overwhelmed that getting drinks was a nightmare. December 11, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by MKAtlanta warm welcome after long absence I came to NYC for a weekend after months away. The hotel management remembered me in-person from many frequent stays over past years. Less than an hour after checking-in, a bottle of wine, and a bowl of fruit were sent to my room along with a hand-written note from Kenny - the manager on-duty. Talk about warm hospitality from a big NYC hotel. August 1, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Carlo Great Location When ever we travel to Manhattan, New York, we always stay at the Sheraton. The hotel is very clean and the rooms are fantastic. There is easy access to the subway station on the corner and plenty of restaurants in the area. All of the points of interest (Times Square / Radio City Music Hall and other attractions are within walking distance. December 19, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by ChiefYellowRunningWater Great location Well located between Times Square and Central Park. Rooms have been redone and are small but nicely appointed. Would like to see fitness center part of room charge instead of a separate fee. June 2, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by TChap12 Front Desk Staff Under Qualified The front desk staff and management were unconcerned with efficiency and process. Their attitude was one of customer dismissal, and their demeanor was not welcoming. As an SPG flagship my expectation for the Sheraton NY Hotel and Towers would be one of customer service excellence not the substandard mediocrity their staff regularly provides. July 30, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Spock Good location, lives up to Sheraton Brand Staff was prompt and helpful and recognized my gold status and gave me a nice room with as much a view as can be expected in NYC! Great location around midtown Manhattan. Bed and room was clean and comfy. We did have a corporate reception event at the hotel and it was well catered. Didn't have time to experience the bar or coffee downstairs. April 16, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by SES1961 Nice location in NYC Nice hotel. Close to many attractions. I have stayed here now three different times for a conference or a conference close by. My only problem was the safe in the room did not work and I was told that none of these type of safes worked. Why was it not replaced or at least taken out of the room? Concierge service very good. Friendly staff. December 23, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by DMac1970 What a wonderful NYC experience The folks at the Sheraton on 7th Avenue could not have been more accommodating. When I explained to the front desk staff that I was trying to mix business with a little bit of pleasure, they went OVER AND ABOVE to make sure my 2-day stay with them far exceeded my exceeded my expectations. I will definitely stay there again (hopefully soon). October 23, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by YALE Great Hotel for NY I've travel to NY often and the Sheraton Towers NY is my home away from home. The hotel is conveniently located with the the metro right outside its door and all the activiites in the city. The hotel staft, especially those woking at the Executive Lounge, are wonderful people. It's help to be a regular there as they know you and greet you. May 26, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by LD222 Recent Stay The hotel was very nice. Room was clean & tidy. Location was great. Short walking distnace from the heart of Times Sq. (5 min). The staff are very friendly and knowledgeable. All you need to do is ask! The bed was too hard (over firm) for my liking. However, since it's close to the office I was working with, I definately would staty again. May 17, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by MaryAnn21 Excellent Location The hotel's excellent location is within walking distance of many great attractions within Times Square. The subway stop directly on the corner of the hotel is very convenient. It takes you to Battery Pary, 911 Memorial, Herald Square, Yankee Stadium (just to name a few). This is my second stay at the Sheraton and I would stay there again. June 7, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Dargano Nice hotel in a great location The person who checked me in was very professional and offered me free wifi, a room on a high floor, and two bottles of water. The room was clean and comfortable with great bedding and amenities. May 31, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by Guest4NYC Great location and value for money This was the first time I stayed in this Sheraton and although the Club Lounge did not offer the regular Club Lounge experience it was still very good. The Front Office Manager (Adam) was great and went out of his way to make sure I had what I needed; made all the difference! Good location and great value for your money. March 11, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Gretchen A Good Night's Sleep I loved the room at the Sheraton Times Square because it was so condusive to a good night's sleep in the heart of NYC! The bed was oh so comfortable as were the bed linens and pillows. The room was quiet and the air conditioner was working properly and was very quiet. I will return to this perfectly-located hotel on my next stay in NYC. September 16, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by chaneldy Guest check in My check in was great. However, I added my sister's name to the room so she can pick up the key the following day. I gave her room # 3035 instead of 5035. The check in staff was mean to my sister when 3035 wasn't under my name. Then my sister asked her to look under Mandy Chan instead. I was surprise the staff would be mean to my sister. June 26, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by al70 Great Stay! This hotel is clean, comfortable, convenient and everyone at the hotel tried to accommodate us in every way. The parking is a relative bargain for 24 hours in Times Square NYC. Booking though SPG was an entirely different story because they have no idea of the capabilities/policies of this property. However, do not hesitate to stay here! November 26, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Jason4400 My visit Everything was great other than the fact that when I checked in at 9 pm they did not have the type of room I requested so they gave me a room with a fold down bed. I will say the bed was pretty good but not as good as a regular bed. A minor issue, I still slept well, and the rest of the room was very clean and had nice decor, just small. March 17, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by carolann63 Not quite up to standard The best feature of this hotel was the bed. Magnificent! The bathroom was too small the shower only just good enough. Couldnt get wi fi. Wasnt luxurious enough for what they charged. Asked the staff on ticket sales for a map they made me queue at the concierge counter for half an hour when it would have taken them 1 minute to get me one! January 6, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by TravelerCT557890 Tired Hotel for Tourists If location was everything, this would be a good place to stay. Otherwise its a tired hotel. The TV didn't work and the minute button on the alarm clock did not function. June 4, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Patty First time in NYC We had 4 days to see it all and we did! Everyone at the hotel was wonderful. Though very busy and crowded, I waited for service less than 3 minutes everywhere - front desk, concierge, bell captain... EVERYTHING was great! We were also in the center of EVERYTHING! THANK YOU Sheraton NYTS for making this part of our trip smooth and easy! May 7, 2013


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The AFL has thrown the book at Adelaide Football Club and Kurt Tippett after a hearing into charges regarding salary cap breaches and draft tampering.
AFL commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick made the announcement saying the commission wanted to send a message to the AFL community.
Tippett was handed a 22-game ban but 11 of those games will be suspended for the next five years. He was also suspended from competing in the pre-season competition and fined $50,000.
The homeless key forward released a statement saying he was disappointed his trust had been taken advantage of.
"I trusted the Adelaide Football Club and for the duration of my contract I did my utmost for the club on and off the field. It is bitterly disappointing, then, to learn that my trust and best endeavours have been to my substantial detriment," he said.
"I pleaded guilty to the two charges on advice without any admission of liability and despite being assured there were valid defences available to me in respect to both charges.
"I am glad that this matter is now finalised and I look forward to moving on and playing football."
His former employers, Adelaide Crows were fined $300,000 and banned from the first two rounds of the 2013 draft.
Crows chief executive Steven Trigg was fined $50,000 and banned from football activities - including attending AFL games - for 12 months, six months of which is suspended for 5 years.
Former Crows football operations manager John Reid was also banned for 12 months, six months of which is suspended for five years. Reid's replacement, Crows current football operations manager, Phil Harper was banned for two months with a four month suspended sentence.
The Crows had already withdrawn its first two picks in the recent draft, saving it from further sanctions.
Fitzpatrick commended the Crows on their co-operation during the investigation but such transgressions could not be tolerated.
"There can be no room in our game to breach our rules," he said.
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DALLAS (AP) A North Texas woman who prosecutors say stabbed a man 130 times and castrated him at a Dallas hotel room has told jurors at her trial that she was defending herself after being sexually assaulted.
Cristal Paulette Richardson is charged with murder in the April 2012 death of Cedric Lamont Owens.
Authorities say they found Owens' bloody and naked body in the hotel room. In addition to the stab wounds and castration, his throat had been cut. Richardson, who was also naked and covered in blood, was sitting outside in a stairwell, according to police.
Richardson, 29, told jurors Friday that she can't remember everything that happened on the night of the killing, the Dallas Morning News reported (http://bit.ly/1eykZiA ).
"I do know that I didn't chase this man like a dog. I didn't want him to kill me," Richardson said, tearfully. "I'm not a killer. I'm not a murderer. I'm somebody's mother."
Richardson testified that on the night of Owens' death, she had used cocaine, PCP, marijuana and alcohol. She said she blacked out, but testified that she was not high at the time of the slaying
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Richardson said that after the assault, the two began fighting. She told jurors that she grabbed a knife because she was scared and he took it from her. During the fight, she grabbed it back.
"He kept telling me he was going to kill me," she said. "I felt my life was in danger."
Richardson said that she doesn't remember stabbing Owens 130 times or castrating him.
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Allied Specialty Vehicles (ASV), the parent company of several bus brands, including ElDorado National-Kansas, announced that Matt Ford has been named president of ElDorado Mobility.
Ford will lead the company from ASV's ElDorado National-Kansas manufacturing facility in Salina where Toyota, Chrysler and Dodge minivans are converted for wheelchair accessibility.
"We are delighted to have a person of Matt's caliber onboard to lead ASV's expanding mobility business," said Kent Tyler, president/CEO of ASV's Bus Division. "His management experience and proven sales success with mobility products for persons with disabilities is well aligned with our strategies to expand our dealer network and grow our customer base in personal use, paratransit and taxi markets."
Ford added, "ElDorado Mobility is a tremendous opportunity for me. The company has a well-earned reputation for delivering the most durable and reliable van conversions in the industry. I'm looking forward to leveraging our quality products with our strong dealer relationships to increase efficiency and improve the customer experience to grow our business."
Ford said his first priority in the new role is to assess everything from the product line to the marketing strategy as well as all aspects of the existing dealer relationships.
"We need to make sure they are given the tools and resources they need to represent the brand effectively," Ford said. "The relationships the company has with its dealers is paramount."
Ford arrives from The Braun Corp., a manufacturer of conversion van and wheelchair lift mobility products, where he spent more than 10 years in sales management positions, most recently as national director of sales.
In this role, he expanded the company's dealer network into 19 new markets over a two-year period, a move that resulted in market share increases. Prior to this, he held business ownership positions at Ford Wireless Group and Clearcall Inc. Ford earned his Bachelor of Arts in business administration/economics and is currently completing his Master of Business Administration from Bethel College.
ElDorado Mobility's Amerivan, side entry, and Mission, rear entry, minivan conversions feature the industry's only stainless steel floor, an optional power ramp and flexible seating for family members. All minivan conversions are Altoona tested and meet or exceed applicable FMVSS/CMVSS testing requirements.
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For more information about ElDorado Mobility conversion products, visit www.amerivans.com.
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Dr. Kimberly S. Coyner, Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Dermatology, graduated from the Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1994. After a referral private practice internship and a year in emergency practice, she obtained a two-year teaching position and then a three-year residency position in dermatology at the University of Georgia, which she completed in 2001.
Dr. Coyner has authored multiple articles in the scientific journals Veterinary Dermatology, Veterinary Medicine, and The Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian, as well as book chapters in the field of dermatology (Morgan's Handbook of Small Animal Practice 4th. Ed., 2002, and Small Animal Dermatology Color Atlas and Therapeutic Guide, 2001 and 2006). She participates in clinical drug trials of cutting edge treatments for atopy and other skin diseases in companion animals, and her special interests include the diagnosis and treatment of atopy (including extensive experience in sublingual allergy immunotherapy), chronic otitis, allergy immunotherapy for the treatment of feline asthma related to atopy, and immune-mediated skin diseases.
Since 2001, Dr. Coyner has been in private dermatology referral practice at Dermatology Clinic for Animals in the southwest United States, and is excited to now be serving the Tacoma and Olympia areas. She sees patients in Tacoma on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and in Olympia on Thursdays and Fridays.
Dr. Mel attended and graduated veterinary school from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico in 2007. This allowed him to have a better understanding of his family heritage and cultures. His mother is native Mexican and his father emigrated from Bolivia. His father studied at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico and has since practiced as an M.D. in the United States for over 30 years.
Dr. Mel has 7 years of veterinary experience. After graduation from veterinary school, he worked for three years in a large private practice hospital in the Los Angeles area before beginning a one year internship, followed by a 3 year residency in veterinary dermatology at the University of Tennessee. During his residency he performed research projects on the effects of butorphanol on intradermal skin testing as well as PCR amplification and DNA sequencing of Demodex injai from otic secretions of a dog, both of which were published in the international journal, Veterinary Dermatology. His special areas of interest include: allergies (atopy), infections (especially methicillin-resistant pyoderma), endocrine disease (hypothyroidism and Cushing's disease) and autoimmune diseases.
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A driver narrowly escaped from a crash in Lincoln as his truck sinks into a pond Sunday. The 17-year-old has now been cited by police for negligent driving.
Around 9 p.m. Sunday night, the driver of a truck lost control of his vehicle near 56th & Pine Lake Rd. The truck hit a tree, breaking out the driver's side window.
The truck then slid onto a pond and broke through the ice. The door would not open, but the driver managed to slip out through the broken window and was not injured.
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NWCC begins first phase of union project
Recently, the Northwest Mississippi Community College Board of Trustees awarded a bid for the renovation of the McLendon Student Union, the largest renovation project in the college's history, at their November meeting to W.G. Yates and Sons of Memphis and Philadelphia.
The renovation will include construction of a second multi-purpose gymnasium to expand physical education, recreational and intramural offerings; two aerobic/dance facilities; meeting rooms for student clubs and organizations; an expanded bookstore; an open student computer lab with more than 80 terminals; new and expanded space for Student Support Services and the Math Support Lab; a new and expanded weight room for Athletics and an upgrade of the current gym for all students; and space for Central Duplicating and Campus Police relocation to the Union to improve convenience and safety for students.
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