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Local Job Openings at Yahoo!

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By Lori Gold Patterson on December 6, 2011

 

OJC is now Pixo!

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By Lori Gold Patterson on September 28, 2011

We are thrilled to announce that OJC Technologies has changed its name to Pixo! After 13 years of putting our colleagues in distress as they tried to recollect our impossible-to-remember name, we finally took the leap and changed it.

Is the market demanding free computer programming classes again?

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By Lori Gold Patterson on October 21, 2010

In 1998, computer programmers were in such high demand that those of us in this field were receiving calls from head hunters and desperate employers weekly.  A few folks in Urbana, IL wanted to start their own computer programming consulting company but knew they would fall prey to the same struggle to find high quality talent.  The answer? They'd create their own high quality talent.

OJC chosen for ALA website Drupal migration

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By Lori Gold Patterson on October 20, 2010

OJC Technologies has been chosen by the American Library Association to oversee the migration of www.ala.org to Drupal. We are excited to begin development this Fall to enhance ALA's 85,000-page enterprise web presence. ALA is migrating from Serena Collage, a discontinued, proprietary CMS to Drupal version 7. We are extremely proud that OJC and ALA share the same values of open access to information and that ALA has agreed to contribute all custom modules to the Drupal community.

Brandon Bowersox selected as a 40 Under 40 Winner

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By Lori Gold Patterson on November 18, 2009

 
Brandon Bowersox 29
Vice president of technology, OJC Technologies

Community involvement:
Urbana City Council member, representing Ward 4, chair of Urbana's Bicycle and Pedestrian advisory commission, advocate for Revitalizing Downtown and Philo Road, board member and teacher at the Computer Learning and Mentoring Center and member of the EDC Tech advisory committee.

Want to find out how many pages or files a website has?

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By Lori Gold Patterson on April 20, 2009

Here's an easy way to find out how many pages and files a website contains.

* In Google, click advanced search
* In last form box (Search withing a site or domain) type in the URL you want to analyze
* You can search just like this or specify the File Type that you want to search by selecting a file type from the File Type dropdown.
*If the File Type that you want to search for isn't in the drop down, go ahead and do the search and then
you can change the search string in the results page.