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December 19, 2007

Virtual Hosting blog – should be awarded for most inappropriate name

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I've been a big fan of the Virtual Hosting blog for the last 3 months or so :-) Just about every post is bookmarked in my RSS reader for further reading and reflecting on. If you aren't subscribed already, then head over here or subscribe here. Today's post on Stress Busting Tips (50 of them no less!) is great reading for you developers out there fighting a huge backlog of tasks to be...

December 19, 2007

Greg Low and Peter Myers to head up Solid Q Australia

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Greg breaks the news about leaving Readify to set up the Australian arm of Solid Quality – a SQL Server consulting and training powerhouse. The news itself will be of interest to many, but I was most taken with his formula of 1 week training for every 3 weeks consulting as the ideal. I'm sure many will relate to how being separated from hands on work (eg due to constant training...

December 19, 2007

Microsoft CRM 4.0 goes RTM

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Microsoft has announced that CRM 4.0 is now being shipped. The met their Q4 promise, but the release parties don't start until March – what's up with that? Just shows how much work goes into a release party these days I guess.
(via Mary Jo)
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December 19, 2007

Yahoo Maps replaces Flex 1.5 with AJAX

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A surprising move in some ways, but interesting because it may have been more political than technical. I don't know the details, and I don't what the best technical solution for Yahoo is in this case; but I do know that 'the best tool for the job' is often ignored – I've seen it plenty of times. Yahoo maps is here.
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December 18, 2007

urlTea

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Why? Because it's handy.
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December 18, 2007

Google Knol

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What's interesting about Knol (screenshot here), is not the concept (good to see Google playing catchup for a change), but the concerns being raised. A step to far? What are you talking about – they've got a long way to go yet I'm sure. And please don't give me that don't be evil = 51% righteous line…
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December 18, 2007

Amazon SimpleDB

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Amazon has unveiled yet another really cool web offering, this time their SimpleDB web service. As many have observed already the beauty is not in the functionality (it is very simple after all – how did they come up with that name?) but the scalability. And cost. So cheap. As Dave notes, much venture capital raising these days is simply to cater for advanced infrastructure. The rules are...

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