As we embark on a new year we’re all full of enthusiasm and energy and are chock full of new years resolutions on how we’re going to do something better, faster or more efficiently. We’ve all heard about the cloud and how the cloud will help make us more productive, but how many of us […]
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I admit it, I live on the dangerous side … when it comes to my desktop. When a new beta is out, I’m usually in line to load it up and Windows 8.1 was no different. I’ve been running the preview since it was first announced and like anyone with a new desktop I had
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Recently I started uploading all of my photos on my home computer to PicasaWeb I mean Google+ Photos at a smaller size (maximum of 1200px wide or high) and with all of the images going up there I wanted a way to rotate my desktop wallpaper on my computer such that each day I’d have
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So Windows Server is a fantastic environment for PHP, it has only improved and will only continue to improve. However, CURL no longer bundles the root certificates in any builds and this causes problems when you look to leverage curl to do something like call an API with HTTPS in the URL. Some will recommend
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ModSecurity is an open-source web application firewall that has been widely deployed on Apache based web servers to protect web applications from security vulnerabilities and has recently been made available in a stable version for IIS based servers from version 7.X and above. However, installing ModSecurity on your windows cloud servers running IIS7.X could be
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Back in September of 2009 Microsoft developed a program called WebsiteSpark. WebsiteSpark was meant to drive developer interest into the Windows Web Platform and drive awareness to the Microsoft Expression family of products. Recently Microsoft announced that the Expression family of products would be changing as they worked towards unifying their development tools and moving
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Although the new year is well along it’s way, it’s still not too early to dial in your business plans. So I thought I‘d share a great application I came across the middle of last year while in the midst of evaluating an acquisition, it’s called EZ Numbers. EZ Numbers is built for startups so
Math is hard, Financial Projections are Easy .. eznumbers that is. Read More »
Recently I had the opportunity to be part of a Microsoft Press Briefing where they announced System Center 2012 SP1 was released and how it played a part of their vision of the Cloud OS. Since that briefing I’ve had a number of conversations and I thought where better than here to discuss that. What
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Recently I had the opportunity to be part of a Microsoft Press Briefing where they announced System Center 2012 SP1 was released and how it played a part of their vision of the Cloud OS. Since that briefing I’ve had a number of conversations and I thought where better than here to discuss that. What
Microsoft’s vision of the Cloud OS and what it means to you (and me) Read More »
After upgrading to WordPress 3.5 you may get an error message: Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable. In version 3.5 they introduced a new variable in the wp-config.php file called WP_TEMP_DIR. The resolution for this error is to add: /* Setup a temporary folder for uploading and