Mark Edgington

Month: November 2008

  • Amazon CloudFront – Replacing the content database

    Amazon launch of Cloudfront, a tightly integrated content delivery service built over their S3 offering promises content delivery routed to the nearest edge location, giving optimal performance to the content user. This extension to S3 should get the content management system (CMS) providers and companies such as Akamai thinking. The service will allow the database…

  • ASUS Eee PC 900 BF001 Netbook, Linux Preloaded, 1GB RAM

    I recently got this netbook as a replacement for my Nokia N810; the new version of the Nokia comes out next year, so i wanted to get the best price for it now. I’ve had the Eee for a week now and must say that i’ve found it to be better than expected. It’s main…

  • Chinese characters appearing incorrectly in Excel when generated by an ASP.Net page

    We recently launched a site that required an excel download to be generated with complex and simplified Chinese characters. In producing this we had issues presenting the Chinese – they would come out as garbage. It was strange as if you saved in notepad and re-opened in excel it would be fine, so the problem…