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op·por·tune
1 : suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence <an opportune moment>
2 : occurring at an appropriate time <an opportune offer of assistance>
so·lu·tion
1 a : an action or process of solving a problem
b : an answer to a problem : explanation; specifically : a set of values of the variables that satisfies an equation

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A Barage of System Problems

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Chris Barlow

The latter half of last week and now early this week, I have just been hit with a lot of system problems and a lot of down time. To sum this up, my Adobe Creative Suite then my Microsoft Office suites stopped working. Both indicated licensing and user access permissions were no longer valid. In fact, my licensing was fine, it just stopped working properly on my system.

I use 3 licensed applications extensively and two of them failed in the same day. Fortunately, all the open source applications I use don’t and probably will never have a similar problem. Just to be fair, I think the Office problem started because of the fixes necessary to get the creative suite working.

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Helpful Hints for Form Input

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 by Chris Barlow

When you have limited space on your home page or any other page for that matter, it is nice to provide a little more helpful information for the use where form space is limited. Now, by just adding a single attribute to your input text, your will get the gray help text in your input box.

<input hintvalue="Search ..." class="smallbox" name="s" type="text" autocomplete="off" />

Just add the javascript from this article and any styles that you want and you are done. Here is a working example. Click in the boxes and watch it work.


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New Website Released

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by Chris Barlow

Opportune Solutions has released this all-new website. Those of you who visited the old site will notice that the logo has changed. Officially, the Opportune Solutions logo is still the old version which is only 3 colors and 2D. The new logo, although now only based two colors is actually made up of many colors to properly highlight, shade and create the reflection.

WyHy Federal Credit Union
WyHy Federal Credit Union

WyHy Federal Credit Union needed an up-to-date website that would allow information to be found quickly. With the new site, they are also pursuing bringing more money saving features to their members.

Just wanted to comment that this has been quite interesting and helpful. No one has ever inquired about what we want and are trying to accomplish - they just say, "buy this and buy that" … what a revelation! THANKS!

Roxanne Ostlund
CPA MBA
Whittle, Ostlund & Associates, PC