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What’s the most popular programming language

Today a friend sent me a link to what I think is an absolutely fascinating survey of the most popular programming languages (circa May 2010).  From where I sit this looks to be spot on. As my friend...

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Spotify

Spotify is a streaming music service available only in parts of Europe.  Spotify has three subscription tiers –Open, Unlimited, and Premium.  It is the Open (aka Free) model which really makes this...

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Good-bye Yahoo, Hello Google

For me Yahoo’s decision to shutter delicious was the last straw.  Not that I am the biggest delicious user on the planet but I do have a small investment in bookmarks that I would prefer not to lose....

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Amazon Web Services – Ready for Primetime

Netflix is in the process of moving to the Amazon cloud. There are a couple of really good blog posts by John Ciancutti who is Netflix’s VP of Personalization Technology. I find it very interesting...

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CloudForce Boston – June 2011

I recently attended the CloudForce 2011 event in Boston.  Marc Benioff spoke for slightly more than an hour with minimal slideware and no notes.  Marc is an amazing speaker and I suspect much of what...

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Comparing IE9, Firefox 5, and Chrome 12

Since the release if IE9 in March of 2011 Microsoft has been claiming that Internet Explorer is the best browser for business. They recently commissioned Forrester Research to help justify and quantify...

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Best practices for adding scalability

My thesis is that a you can’t have a good SaaS application that doesn’t scale.  By definition the need for scalability is driven by customer demand but there is demand and there is DEMAND. A handful of...

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HTML5 Validation using Yepnope

In this months’ MSDN magazine there is an interesting article on Browser and Feature Detection.  What really caught my eye was the piece on Modernizr, the JavaScript library that implements browser...

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Hosting an MVC3 (with membership) application on EC2

One of my side projects was to get an MVC3 application that uses the Razor View Engine and Membership hosted on EC2 running Linux. I found some amazingly helpful resources along the way – particularly...

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Using the right database tool

Robert Haas, a major contributor and committer on the PostgreSQL project, recently wrote a provocative post entitled “Why the Clock is Ticking for MongoDB.”  He was actually responding to a post by the...

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Thoughts RightScale Annual State of the Cloud Report

In January of 2015 cloud portfolio management company RightScale Inc. surveyed 930 users of cloud services for their Annual State of the Cloud report.  The findings are both interesting and insightful....

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Good-bye Yahoo, Hello Google

For me Yahoo’s decision to shutter delicious was the last straw.  Not that I am the biggest delicious user on the planet but I do have a small investment in bookmarks that I would prefer not to lose....

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Amazon Web Services – Ready for Primetime

Netflix is in the process of moving to the Amazon cloud. There are a couple of really good blog posts by John Ciancutti who is Netflix’s VP of Personalization Technology. I find it very interesting...

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CloudForce Boston – June 2011

I recently attended the CloudForce 2011 event in Boston.  Marc Benioff spoke for slightly more than an hour with minimal slideware and no notes.  Marc is an amazing speaker and I suspect much of what...

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Comparing IE9, Firefox 5, and Chrome 12

Since the release if IE9 in March of 2011 Microsoft has been claiming that Internet Explorer is the best browser for business. They recently commissioned Forrester Research to help justify and quantify...

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Best practices for adding scalability

My thesis is that a you can’t have a good SaaS application that doesn’t scale.  By definition the need for scalability is driven by customer demand but there is demand and there is DEMAND. A handful of...

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HTML5 Validation using Yepnope

In this months’ MSDN magazine there is an interesting article on Browser and Feature Detection.  What really caught my eye was the piece on Modernizr, the JavaScript library that implements browser...

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Hosting an MVC3 (with membership) application on EC2

One of my side projects was to get an MVC3 application that uses the Razor View Engine and Membership hosted on EC2 running Linux. I found some amazingly helpful resources along the way – particularly...

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