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- 10 ways to avoid stupid project estimates
- You can't run a successful project with bad estimates, any more than you can build a solid house with faulty bricks and lumber. These simple steps will help you filter out the bad numbers you get today and improve the numbers you get tomorrow.This download is also available as an...
- Tags: Lumber, Jerry Loza, Blogging, Internet
- Download resources 2009-04-06
- The Green Enterprise: The City of Mill Valley, California
- On the next installment of The Green Enterprise, ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber takes a look at green practices in the City of Mill Valley, such as a solar-powered pizzeria, an eco-friendly water treatment plant and a lumber program that re-uses wood from the city's fallen trees for bridge projects around...
- Tags: City, Strategy, Management, The Green Enterprise, Mill Valley, Emerging Technology, Green, Solar, Water, lumber, eco
- Videos 2007-11-20
- Your luxurious prefab green home
- XtremeHomes builds dwellings that are green-conscious--both by using sustainable materials and by consolidating the labor under one roof to conserve resources. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reports from the company's factory in Oroville, Calif.
- Tags: News.com, XtremeHomes, Extreme homes, home, house, green, material, construction, contractor, building, truck, Michael Kanellos, Michelle Kaufmann, Tim Schmidt, lumber
- Videos 2007-08-30
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- Dreadmill for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)
- Dreadmill for iPhone puts you in control of a tragic zombie athlete trapped in an underground lumber-mill, running on a conveyor-belt amid a storm of spinning sawblades. It is a darkly funny comment on games, dead people, and the lumber industry - offers endless hours of challenging, addictive fun. It...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Environment, Clockrocket Games, Games, Smart Phones, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-11-13
- Could you green the world brick by brick?
- One California-based company is going to try. And they're going to make those "green" bricks in Wisconsin, not ship them in from China. The new-fangled brick has been pioneered by CalStar Products. A basic ingredient of the CalStar brick is coal ash, residue from burning coal. There...
- Tags: Brick, CalStar Products, Coal Ash, Michael Kane, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- CutLog 3.01.14460 (Windows)
- CutLog optimization software. Assists sawyers in obtaining the optimum sawing solution for logs with control over various cutting parameters such as the thickness of center cants and side lumber. In addition it counts price of produced timber. Optimization can be done base on yield or price of produced timber.
- Tags: Price, Peter Turcan, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-09-15
- Blackstone & Cullen, Inc. Case Study: InComm
- The pioneer in prepaid technologies and solutions, InComm began serving the telecommunications and retail distribution markets in 1992. US Lumber needed a collaborative portal solution to leverage and reuse their procurement data for new and repeat customers. BAC worked with InComm to provide a SWL Server Data Mart for aggregation...
- Tags: Procurement, Blackstone & Cullen, Portals, Purchasing & Procurement, Web Technology, Internet, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-03-04
- PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?
- PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?Yale Patt is being foolish.You cannot ignore the factors of time and money. In the real non-ideal world, their are many practical considerations that cannot be avoided.Most programmers are average, which may not be good enough for "Yale Patt" but it is...
- Tags: Development tools, programmer, PPoPP 2009 Day 2, Yale Patt
- Discussion threads 2009-02-20
- Greentechies smiling a little brighter today
- Courtesy: Foundation Capital. One immediate effects of the Obama Administration's economic plans: it has stimulated optimism among greentech firms and investors. I spoke yesterday with Steve Vassallo, principal at Foundation Capital. They have a range of greentech investments in their VC portfolio. Steve walked...
- Tags: Window, Grid, Ozone, EnerNOC, Vassallo, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Housing surplus, the monster in the closet
- There are many places where economic meltdown and environmental problems coincide. Petroleum importing to the U.S. Burning coal for "cheaper" electricity than you can get from solar, ignoring the pollution costs. People driving older inefficient vehicles rather than buying new, more efficient, ones. But the one...
- Tags: Surplus, Home, Insurance, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- Building Your IT Staff: Essential Experience and Skill Sets for Tomorrow's Challenges
- The top Information Services leaders from Stimson Lumber, Missouri State University, Gelber Group, and United Therapeutics share their expertise on: Building Your IT Staff: Essential Experience and Skill Sets for Tomorrow's Challenges
- Tags: Information Technology, SkillSoft, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Could being sustainable save the world AND the economy? New book makes convincing case.
- Could being sustainable save the world AND the economy? New book makes convincing case.Software as a service = sustainabilityIt seems like we use less when we make use of shared resources. Software as a service SaaS is turning out to be a very green proposition. Most of us...
- Tags: Green Washing, sustainability
- Discussion threads 2008-10-25
- US Lumber Gains Hourly Updates of Business Performance With IBM Cognos Software
- US Lumber Group is a $325 million, specialty, wholesale building materials distributor with headquarters in Atlanta, GA. It needed to view key performance indicators on an hourly basis to judge success and make more informed decisions related to business strategy. It deployed sophisticated Business Intelligence BI solution that provides in-depth...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Performance, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Business Intelligence, Management, Marketing, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- Baillie Lumber Co. Automates Manual Processes and Optimizes Shipping for Better Customer Service
- Baillie Lumber Co. is a producer and distributor of American hardwoods in the United States and to more than 60 countries worldwide. Baillie Lumber Co. wanted to automate manual process of planning, tendering, tracking, and auditing domestic shipments and improve customer service by providing better visibility of intransit shipments. The...
- Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea
- Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a state which does not produce much...
- Tags: Subsidy, Denmark, Natural Gas, Taxes, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Cheat High Tech Cheaters
- So Omar Khan wanted to get into college, but he didn’t want to do his homework to get there. The Orange County, CA, high school senior decided instead to use spyware, grab credentials off teachers’ log-ins, and then change failing grades to top grades. ...
- Tags: Student, Teacher, Khan, Food & Beverage, Handhelds, Team Management, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Manufacturing, Hardware, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Photos: Swinging by Louisville, where bats are born
- A tour of the Louisville Slugger factory shows how Pennsylvania lumber gets turned into the major league's favorite bats. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Bat, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-06-20
- Will market reject Sun's open source vision?
- Matt asks today whether open source will save Sun Microsystems. Good question. But it depends on what we mean by open source. (Copies of this lovely poster are for sale at eBay.) And what we mean by saving. As I noted here in January,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vision, Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- From an Eye in the Sky to Roots on the Ground
- How much pulp/lumber/biomass/sugar cane is there on that piece of ground? There are many reasons for asking that question. As commodity prices and energy pirces climb, the need for the answers get more urgent. The folks at Lanworth have gathered the global database, experience and...
- Tags: Analysis, Shailu Verma, GIS, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Snakes on a Plain...and Down the Avenue
- Seems Belem, Brazil, has a reptile problem. We're not talking about lawyers and politicians either, though these reptiles also slither on their bellies. These are the legless snakes who cannot speak with their forked tongues. And the Belemites are worried their city on a level plain at...
- Tags: Brazil, Greenpeace, Deforestation, Sugar, Government, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
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