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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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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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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…