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Extending application data to the cloud
I was one of the invited panel speakers to A panel on Cloud Computing this week in New York. As one of 2 non vendor presenters, it was a great experience to be invited and be involved with vendors.
Read moreFacebook performance woes today
It seems that of late a number of successful community web sites have been experiencing problems in scalability and performance. Today it’s Facebook. Initially I got a “Problem loading page” browser message.
Read moreCheck your spelling
I’ve been Plurking more lately rather then Twittering . I’d like to offer to help out at Twitter if I could find the right person to talk to. I’m no English major, but I do like to ensure my spelling is correct (at least for the bulk of the audience).
Read moreToday’s wicked cool site – ping.fm
I posted on my Plurk I wished for an easier way to update my status on social sites such as Facebook , Twitter and Plurk . The answer I got was Ping.
Read moreGenerating Word Clouds
I came across a wicked cool tool at wondle.net . I wanted to create a word cloud for the back of a business card, now I know how. <img src=“http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/05557/Ronald_Bradford_About_2"style=“padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd” />
Read moreYour site unavailable page
When your site is down what do people see? If overloaded to you respond well or not? For much larger organizations with the infrastructure and DNS management this should be part of your DR strategy.
Read moreScreen recorder software for Mac
I’ve been researching what software exists for a Mac to produce video like screen recording and audio. Multiple people have recommended Camtasia however this is Windows only. I today with some research came across Jing Project which at first test seems perfect, easy to install, use and even deploy to an integrated Screencast .
Read moreBeyond Blogs
I was reading today in a printed magazine Business Week the article Beyond Blogs . It’s unusual these days to actually read on paper what we can find on our online world.
Read moreShare/Add This Buttons on sites
I’ve noticed a change of buttons lately on sites where you can bookmark/share the relevant information. So I’ve done a cross sample of A Computer Site – www.dell.com , The MySQL Acquirer – www.
Read moreHey Jake, what’s your problem
So, I’m checking out the upcoming weather for the MySQL Conference for next week, and Yahoo Weather throws me a 404 Not Found error from their own site. Interesting, what I did particularly like was the URL, it had jake/404.
Read moreWhen is a website useless?
Well this is one way. Time Magazine has so much advertising garbage, the page on my Macbook shows only 16 words of meaningful article text on the page. Those being almost rather useless as well:
Read moreNew addition to my blog
You may have noticed some icons besides any web links such as [This][1]. I have added [Snap Shots][2] to my site. I first noticed it on [www.techcrunch.com][3] and after some analysis saw the potential.
Read moreWhen technology just works
Today I needed to visit a medical specialist for collection of something. I had to pay $250 as my insurance did not cover. I sent a check as requested however today they had not record of receipt.
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