“Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards–and living up to them–is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.”
It struck me at once as both incredibly profound and somewhat common-sensical. And then I realized why it grabbed me today: at lunch today, a friend and I were discussing marketing, and we agreed that almost anyone could differentiate on cost. All you have to do is lower your price.
It is service & quality that people will pay for – and come back to purchase again and again and again. Today, there is a non-trivial percentage of Freepository visitors who visit the site an average of 14 times per day. This *isn’t* the cruise ship lunch crowd – which is different every day – it is the other crowd that Seth talks about.
If you are writing automation in Perl (very common), you will certainly need to interact with the system. You have multiple ways to implement system interaction in Perl; one of the most efficient & effective methods is use of the system function.
Today’s Tech Tip deals with performing fully automated (unattended) backups of a MySQL database from one system to another, even though there is no direct connectivity between the two systems.
This is a new feature that I hope you enjoy – Tech Tip of the Day. With a technology background that dates back to just *before* the introduction of the IBM PC, I have had the pleasure of working with some cool, world-changing systems, software, and gear as both my business computing career and the Business Computing Industry have grown up together.
Like most software development shops that provide hosted services, we have a group of servers that work together to provide our operational infrastructure. In preparation for some upcoming product work, we recently decided to upgrade the OS on one of these boxes.
What a mistake.
I’ll add to this post over time, mostly because there’s a lot to say, but also simply because I want to quickly post an explanation for why this blog has been unavailable for the past few days. Well, the system we upgraded was this one: commavee.com, our blog server.