Credit Score Websites

There are currently several websites on-line that clain to promise free credit scores or reports. Some of these have used extensive advertising campaigns aimed at young people to get them to use their site to check their scores. The concept of periodically checking credit scores to discover idenity theft is valid. Unfortunately it has been reported by consumer groups that some of these sites may ask for your credit card numbers and surreptiously charge you money, or worse. They may use hard to find clauses in there agreements to autherize these payments.

It has been recently reported to me by a reliable consumer resource that a trussted place to truly get your credit rating freely is anualcreditreport.com. I trust this report, but will check into it further this week, and report back to you here with further details when verified. This website will added to the top100k.com website as well.

I have absolutely no affiliation with this or any other credit reporting website or service and am just reporting this as a way to help others.

Erik Holm

Producer of Top100k.com

There are currently several websites on-line that clain to promise free credit scores or reports. Some of these have used extensive advertising campaigns aimed at young people to get them to use their site to check their scores. The concept of periodically checking credit scores to discover idenity theft is valid. Unfortunately it has been reported by consumer groups that some of these sites may ask for your credit card numbers and surreptiously charge you money, or worse. They may use hard to find clauses in there agreements to autherize these payments.

 

It has been recently reported to me by a reliable consumer resource that a trussted place to truly get your credit rating freely is anualcreditreport.com. I trust this report, but will check into it further this week, and report back to you here with further details when verified. This website will added to the top100k.com website as well.

 

I have absolutely no affiliation with this or any other credit reporting website or service and am just reporting this as a way to help others.

 

Erik Holm

Producer of Top100k.com

 

First Post as a Contributing Author

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Abbie R.

Windows 8 – Metro Apps in the cloud?

Are Windows 8 metro apps in the cloud? This is yet to be determined, but it seems that Microsoft is following the Mac business model by creating their own app store. This is the latest trend proceeding smart phones and tablets. This model is only smart for the purveyors and not the consumers.

Here is a developers opinion of the new OS Windows 8

http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/microsoft/288153-living-with-windows-8-developer-preview

I’ve been using the Windows 8 Developer Preview both on the Samsung tablet Microsoft passed out at the Build conference and on a standard desktop PC, trying to get a feel of what using the operating system is going to be like. What I’ve seen so far shows a lot of potential as a new environment for tablets and even for more standard machines, but one that still needs a lot of work before it’s ready for end-users.

To some extent, that’s to be expected. Microsoft was clear at the conference that this was a developer preview, not a customer beta. As such, it comes with a variety of developer tools – including Visual Studio Express, Expression Blend 5, a remote debugger and more; and very little in the way of consumer applications – basically just a number of sample applications written by Microsoft interns. But it does give a feel of the basic user experience, so I set off to add programs I’m likely to run and to try living in the new OS.

To me, I would wait to adopt this OS because MS seems to be trying to turn the home computer or office workstation to a proprietary storefront system for their own benefit. Go Open Source! – PS

It’s hard to be a Techie

I was recently at a doctor’s office and she found out I was a Techie. Immediately she commented on how she spent a lot of money on a system for printing prescriptions that had issues. She had hired a Techie who was to come in with this new system and because of current privacy laws regarding medical records the system ended up being more costly than it should of been, apparently. Being diplomatic I brought up how indeed the privacy issues regarding medical records is very important and well publicized, but that a printing system should not cost X amount of dollars.

As a web developer who has worked with the public on contract positions I know there are technical difficulties that one encounters that are challenging. From the paralysis of analysis to implementation of the best practices. To deal with corporate clients one of the main difficulties is explaining the decision making process that is faced when working on complex projects. Turning a set of functions and features to a timeline and a spec sheet is a good way to avoid future difficulties, and keeping the lines of communication open regarding crucial issues when dealing with clients will help keep them happy with the results.

Technology changes are fast and furious, but that doesn’t mean you should be. Be nice to your Techie

The LAMP Stack With ZF

The LAMP stack combines the top open source technologies available for the developer on the web. The Zend Cart Framework is a PHP library of modules that enhance this development stack and add many classes of built in objects that make object oriented web application programming possible.

LAMP is comprised of Linux operating system, the Apache web server, the MySQL database server and PHP hypertext Preprocessor. This development technology is a growing and changing package that is supported by a community of users. The Zend Cart library is a set of modules created by programmers from IBM. After mastering objects in PHP you can move on to the Zend Framework. It is worth the effort to learn these technologies to provide scalable web applications based on open source technologies.

Tune in later and I will provide the best links to these technologies.