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developers christmas wishlist
Just the coffee cup and a few more and i will have the whole of the developers Christmas wish list.
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Oracle and Enterprise 2.0
I recently attended an Oracle seminar entitled Enterprise 2.0, I went looking to understand the direction a company such as Oracle was pursuing in this space. However, i found the whole experience lacking. What was wrong was the ever tenuous web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 link, which never worked, as the argument was never formed. The…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Sky Travel Website
Back at the start of the year my team launched the Sky Travel site . Since then it has changed a lot and has a number of roll-outs planned to the end of the year. Its got a great design and some excellent JavaScript work using JQuery. Well worth a look if your planning a…
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Site Launch Mazda BT-50
My team have just launched a site to show off the new Mazda BT-50 . Its written in .Net 3.5 feeding in XML content from an EPiServer CMS into a Flash front end and integrated into a Sieble Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Its rolling out over a number of European countries.
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Tagging the world – IPhone killer application!
Sekai Camera is the killer iPhone application, just point your camera anywhere around you to have instant feedback about whatever is on your screen. Directions, reviews, messages, offers, and any tag you can imagine will appear floating in front of you, adding a graphic overlay to the world. Using the iPhone 3G, camera and the…
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Testing if a site is down
Not as easy as you may think, when you can get to it, but a client cannot. This should at least point out who is likley to be correct a little quicker. Is it down for everyone or just me
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
If your going to spend 15 minutes watching a video, make sure it’s this one.