Technical tidbits from TheFormTool, LLC We’ve just welcomed the 1.25 millionth visitor to our main website and store this week, which called for upgrading the site’s operating system and various construction languages. The increase in speed, and time savings for visitors, is noticeable on first-page loads on both the main site and the store. The…
Law.com reported recently on large reductions in the ranks of legal secretaries at the Reed Smith and Fox Rothschild law firms. What received less attention was the significant upgrade of roles filled by the supporting team members who remain, and the roles played by technology that allow the firms to increase responsibilities and compensation. Wells…
Our Knowledge Base offers more than 600 subject-specific articles and videos. They are keyword searchable (pronouns or conditions or divorce or Salesforce or thousands of others) and are also organized into six different formally organized courses. Our total training environment ranges from one page cheat sheets to 200 page manuals or anywhere in between, videos from…
The development of new ideas can be spontaneous, unbidden, disorganized and random; or, disciplined, focused, logical and specific. “Too many” ideas can create a burden for the brilliant among us by interfering with their more mundane but necessary thought processes and cluttering their mental attics. The majority of us suffer from the opposite. We need…
We call it The Successful Succeeding Solution. That’s how we solved the problem of how to create a list of people (or items, actions, or conditions) that determines your first-choice order but then goes on to determine what happens if “Plan A” doesn’t work out. Because of the nature of our customers, we see it…
Because so many people now use Google to sign into other apps (not a good idea, but here we are), it’s critical to know if any of those apps have suffered a security breach that might have exposed your personal information or password or even a doorway into your Google account to hackers. To do…
Something Evil This Way Comes: Inflation The January edition of our newsletter was among the first in the nation to raise an alarm about the potential for inflation caused by wild spending and quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve. Now, several trillions of dollars too late, others are pointing out triple-digit price increases in commodities,…
. How You Can Actively Manage Spam in Gmail Google has a tendency to randomly assign emails to its spam filters, from which they’ll never be delivered. On the other hand, it has a tendency to pass through tons of emails that it ought to block. If this is a problem for you, here’s how…
. Our customers report that creating finished documents using our software takes 71% less time. What does that mean in practical terms? Productivity. Given that the average office spends 60% of its total labor expense on document creation, it means a huge opportunity to re-deploy resources more productively. It’s enlightening to run the math: multiply…
Today’s programs from TheFormTool operate almost 100 times faster than they did just a few years ago. Even so, there are a few tricks to squeeze seconds or minutes from Forms’ runtimes. The biggest drag on speed are Conditions, where the program slows down to “think through” the interplay between the Logical Rules and the…