Monthly Archives: September 2011

Big Gaps

I saw this piece on Learning Unix from Miguel  de Icaza that brought back memories. Michael is a well known developer that is working an open source implementation of .NET called Mono. He worked at Microsoft and continues to bring .NET to other … Continue reading

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Quick Recovery Techniques Webinar

The slides for the SQLServerCentral webinar #13 are available here on the blog. Download them from the link below Quick Recovery Techniques PPT There aren’t notes in there, but if you have questions, let me know. The recording of the … Continue reading

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A Secure Application Model

Amazon introduced a Cloud Reader for the Kindle, and the Financial Times pulled their iPhone app out of Apple’s store and introduced an HTML5 web application. All of these moves point to the fact that companies are finding Apple’s 30% fees for revenue to … Continue reading

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Data Quality on the Open Web

I used to hear that one of the strengths of Linux was the thousands of volunteers that would help you get a patch or a fix in record time when you reported an issue. That worked well, but not well … Continue reading

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