Archive for May, 2007

eRecording - do you need it?

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

My friend is a real estate developer - I think he has spent about half of his life now at a local courthouse submitting paperwork to get building permits. These days he just owns property and has another company managing the units, but he used to double his time spent at the courthouse back when he managed properties and needed to evict tenants - talk about a nightmare.

Apparently some companies are opening the doors now for what should have been the first thing we used the internet for - submitting paperwork to this wonderful government of ours.

eRecording is a relatively new method of document submission that allows everybody to save time. Instead of submitting all of your records in a hard-copy format you can submit them online. This provides another secondary benefit - employees of the government are usually pretty excited to leave work as soon as their shift is over (if not a few minutes early :) ) which puts out a lot of small business owners out who are accustomed to working 10-12 hour days.

Submitting documents online allows business owners to submit their documents on their own time, not somebody else’s. Find out if your county offers eRecording services or read more about the benefits of eRecording.

Need to Convert?

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

So apparently instead of wasting thousands of dollars in programmers’ salaries and several hundred precious work hours trying to convert Delphi applications, there is code migration software available to do it all for you.

At literally a fraction of the cost, the software takes mere minutes to convert Delphi (one program can convert up to 50 lines of code per second). Program specs can include conversion of Delphi applications from versions 2-7, standard Delphi database connections, and even hundreds of Delphi key functions. Plus, it preserves previous changes and modifications and eliminates the possibility of human error.

I am not sure why companies still have to debate whether or not to use the software. Bottom line, it saves money and time; isn’t that a no-brainer for any profitable business? Plus, it preserves previous changes and modifications and eliminate the possibility of human error.