Posted on July 10, 2009 by Joel Musheno
Recently, there has been a push by companies like Microsoft, SalesForce, Amazon and Google, to use their cloud computing services as a platform to build applications. What makes this any different than running server within your office and storing your business data there? Nothing. You’re just outsourcing number crunching power and storage. If you use [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2009 by Joel Musheno
So this morning I was asked to get content from a website out in plain text. Visually, this means that the HTML code over on the left, needs to be converted to straight text that can be viewed in notepad without all of the tags. As I have done some screen scraping in the past [...]
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Posted on June 22, 2009 by Joel Musheno
Who needs revision tracking? I do, and I love it. I want to be able to see the changes made to a document or spreadsheet and the comments added along with a date. As a programmer I have used some form of source control for ten years and without knowing it, I have come to [...]
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