Jun
24th
links for 2007-06-24
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Most companies give you a terrible black & white manual with poor grammar and spelling errors. Apple recognizes that marketing and advertising doesn’t end when the money is exchanges hands.
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How do you react if Amazon goes down or if Amazon decides to shut down AWS? What happens next December when a busy holiday season makes Amazon divert bandwidth from S3 to their main business, Amazon.com?
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After 3 mos of no payment, I had to put a debt collection agency on a blogger who I did work for in 2006. He still owes close to $2k on a contract I steeply discounted to $2500. I found this automated Debt Collection. I’ll let you know if it works.
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Mandriva has followed the lead of other Linux distributors, such as Canonical and Red Hat, in publicly spurning Microsoft’s advances for a patent protection deal.
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I needed to sort some XML in C# before itterating through the document. In the end I used the XslCompiledTransform to apply an XSL stylesheet to the XML document. Works very quickly. For reference, this is how I did it.
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Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making great sites that bit extra special.
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One of the strongest, but least hyped, uses of web 2.0 technologies over the past couple of years has been e-learning.
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Hat tip to Neil. What a fantastic technology that could absolutely help small businesses to manage phone calls without the expense of a call center.
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Abhijit wrote an excellent post on the flexibility of WordPress as a feature-rich Content Management System that can be deployed for any website.
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Three months ago, I met the two startup founders of Zenter, Wayne Crosby and Robby Walker, and blogged about how they wanted their online version of PowerPoint to get bought by Google.
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When I viewed the new iPhone site something struck me: did Apple change the dimensions of the unit?
