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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The challenge I always have with these conferences is the plethora of choices available to attendees. I already know what topics I want to focus on: WCM; Architecting, Developing and Building public facing internet sites, and Social features in 2010. But even so, there are still time slots where I ...
Tags: architecture, best practices, Cloud, Development, mandalay bay, Sharepoint, training, virtualization
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
I'm at the SharePoint Conference in Vegas this week. Registration and Exhibit Hall started Sunday night, but sessions officially started Monday. I am tweeting all day during the conference, follow me (@mmdeluna) if you are interested. You can track tweets using #spc09. I will be posting ...
Tags: Cloud computing, content management server, internet, Microsoft, office business platform, Sharepoint
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
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It's nice to see Amazon moving into the CDN space with their Cloudfront offering, it seems like the CDN market can definitely use some fresh look at the challenge. It looks like it builds off your usage of Amazon S3 but with an ...
Tags: Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Content delivery network, Coral Caching, Open source, Peer-to-peer, Technology
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
It's great to get some market recognition for all our efforts. In this post Forrester recognizes that technology differentiates and our addition to Publicis will help strengthen their market position. This captured our attention
'"What about Razorfish? The firm has much stronger design capabilities, both for user experience and what we ...
Tags: Avenue A/Razorfish, Microsoft, Publicis, Technology
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
During the development of any project that involves HTML, there's always a nagging question in the back of your mind: "How broken will this site be in IE6?" Here's an article that will reduce the amount of worrying you do when fixing your site to work in IE6. It covers ...
Tags: css, internet explorer 6, pld, presentation layer
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Believe it or not but Microsoft’s newly evolved search engine bing is nothing less than the answer of the above analogy question. You must have solved many of these analogy questions during your SAT exam. When I apply my knowledge and understanding to the question“Windows : Mac :: Google : (?)”, ...
Tags: apple, bing, google, mac, Microsoft, Search Engines
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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It's great to see cloud computing pushing for deep interoperability. This MSDN post covers some interesting topics around the manifesto and also speaks a bit about some interesting demos showing integration between Google's App Engine and Azure. Very excting.
"At MIX, we highlighted the use of our Identity Service ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, AppEngine, Azure, Cloud computing, google, Google App Engine, Microsoft, Python
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
All the video's for the 2009 MIX conference are posted online (http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09) and they are interesting for anybody developing on the Microsoft platform. One of the session posted is about developing consumer facing brand sites, presented by Tony Jones, Technology Director for Razorfish. It touches on the unique challenges that ...
Tags: Microsoft, MOSS
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
One of my favorite topics in agile and iterative development is pair programming.The question is can we make it happen more and do we want to try it more? I've typically seen it on the smaller and more isolated projects. It's a fascinating concept and the research, while minimal that ...
Tags: Agile, Education, pair programming, research, University of North Carolina
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
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Exciting to see folks pulling together some Cloud Computing standards to help us live seamlessly across the different cloud vendor offerings. I heard it first on the This Week in Tech podcast, it's starting to sound a lot like the Terminator's version of Skynet. ...
Tags: Amazon, Cloud, Cloud computing, google, IBM, Microsoft, Skynet, Terminator
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