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View ArticleCloudForce 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...
View ArticleComparing 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...
View ArticleBest practices for adding scalability
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View ArticleHTML5 Validation using Yepnope
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View ArticleThoughts RightScale Annual State of the Cloud Report
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View ArticleGood-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....
View ArticleAmazon 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...
View ArticleCloudForce 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...
View ArticleComparing 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...
View ArticleBest 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...
View ArticleHTML5 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...
View ArticleHosting 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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