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Cloud-Based Backup Services Cloud-based backup services have been around for some time now, albeit without the ‘Cloud’ prefix. Many of these managed services are mature and worth considering. What do you need to consider before taking the jump? |
Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer I’m 37, and I’ve been a (professional) developer for 16 years. You would have thought that in that time, I’d have figured out an effective work style which delivered the desired outcomes (code cut, products shipped etc) without causing ... |
MySQL Indices – what, how and when One simple area of MySQL optimisation that is often overlooked is indexes* on tables. Basically an index is a sub set of the data that allows the MySQL engine to match against values much faster than normal. In short, it speeds up the sorting of data and ... |
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Scheduled Tasks – vanishing into the Void We’ve got a really frustrating issue with our ColdFusion 8.01 box that seems to be getting worse as time goes on. Every so often (the actually time seems pretty random – it could be 24 hours it could be 5 days) scheduled tasks that have been ... |
SOTR 2011 Speakers – the wraps are off Almost on schedule and the immensely hard-working team behind Scotch on the Rocks have unveiled the speaker list for the 2011 conference in Edinburgh. Amongst the usual lu... |
New Times, New Job About two weeks ago I moved job! I’m now working for Heritage International Fund Managers as a Senior Systems Administrator! |
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Our Keyword Review - have you checked yours? Which keywords do you really rank for? About nine months ago, we published a blog post about th... |
Bank migrates to cloud-based desktop Japanese Bank migrates to IBM’s cloud-based desktop service. Could this be the start of financial institutions adopting the technology? |
Cloud, jurisdiction and security I just noticed a good blog at CIOCOO regarding the relevance of jurisdiction in relation to cloud services. There’s no doubt that regulated businesses can be very sensitive to the risk of data loss or disclosure and many cloud service providers ... |
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MonoRail’s Incorrect “ExecuteEnum” in v2.0 Just as a quick note, MonoRail's guides are quite inconsistent, so for those tearing their hair out over MonoRail's "Filters" article just be reminded that ExecuteEnum does not exist in v2.0, it has since been replaced with ExecuteWhen ... |
Bytes by TechNet If you missed TechEd North America this year, they launched a new initiative called Bytes by TechNet. I was lucky enough to get interviewed by Keith Combs from TechNet…Check out the interview here: Alternatively find the entire interview on TechNet here ... |
API Integration: Why all the fuss? Don't Panic - Not a technical post! I recently posted on Free Business Forum UK for the first time and in my introductory post, I mentioned we do a lot o... |
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How to access the font list in ColdFusion 8 … … without Java or authenticating against the CFIDE object! I’ve recently been working on a pure ColdFusion / CFImage implementation to generate dynamic title images in specific fonts. As part of the configuration of this particular code I ... |
Cocoa tip: using custom outline view cells designed in IB I only started learning Objective-C and Cocoa in mid-May, and for the first time I think I actually have a tip to contribute to the wider community. It’s about using custom cells in NSOutlineView, but those which you want to design inside Interface ... |
Are small businesses giving public cloud the cold shoulder? A report at Silicon.com point... |
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Why Adobe should support ColdFusion Builder on Linux #bbpBox_20297427052{... |
The mobile (cell) business is hotting up For those of you eagerly awaiting the Windows Phone 7 Series, the other mobile industry news must be quite interesting as well. What is it I’m taking about or referring to? Well, let’s take a look at two big stories around the mobile industry ... |
Sorry I’ve been OOF for a while For those of you that like acronyms, apologies, but I’ve been OOF as of late. OOF is a term usually found in email which stems back to the original mail system days when someone was Off Of Facility or Out Of Facility. Many people commonly mistake it ... |
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Special Offer on SEO returns for September! Get your SEO Started with our Special Offer! In April we posted a special offer on our SEO Services, which we ran right through June this year - it was very successful and we are happy to be working with ... |
Structure and guidelines, consistency and clarity One of my key points about software architecture is that it introduces structure and guidelines into a software system, which in turn leads to consistency and clarity of the overall design. Basically, I'm saying that there are some real ... |
1.2 Zettabytes and counting According to this infographic from Wikibon the estimated amount of data held in the digital universe is 1.2 Zettabytes. What’s that in real money? – 75 billion iPads of course… |
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Managed Service Engineer Some of your main responsibilities of this role will be to provide technical advice, implementation, support and maintenance services to both internal and external clients, to assist in the delivery of technical projects as allocated and to provide ... |
Working Off-Site: 5 Golden Rules (or at least, five of ours!) Mattched IT is now in it's 5th year and over that time, we have undertaken a mixture of on-site and off-site consultancy. Being an off-site contractor can ... |
The Industry Of Love And Hate For over two years now I've worked as a professional software developer. I was freshly bred from the depths of university into a narrow-scoped island of programming where jobs in my area are far and few. Although the choices for … ... |
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Website Updates: July 2010 Website Updates: July 2010 We've managed to fit in some much needed maintenance on our own website, for once, and have updated the following sections: About Mattched IT - this page has been ... |
Do architects define the software development process? There's some very interesting follow-up to a blog entry called If you’re an architect… on Edward Williams' blog and one of the questions that has just been posed is this. Is defining the development process (agile, waterfall - ... |
Dude, there’s an Ogre on my mantelpiece! In a complete and total surprise, my cousin presented to me yesterday the result of a grand conspiracy in the Ogre community to commemorate my time as project lead – a specially designed, unique Ogre statuette! Thumbnails below, click for more ... |
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How do you introduce software architecture? I get my fair share of questions about software architecture; ranging from queries about the role through to "I have this problem, how would you design a solution"? This question, though, represents a fairly common situation but isn't one that ... |
Javascript: Succinct Set Lookup value The CRM 4 SDK for setting a lookup is very verbose and this post shares a simpler way to set a lookup value.The following code example from the SDK shows how to set values in a field of type Lookup. //Create an array to set as the DataValue for the lookup ... |
Good code isn't enough A quick note to say that I'm presenting a free "In-the-brain" session at Skills Matter in London on the 8th of September. Writing code is easy. Writing good code is still relatively easy if you know what you're doing. Yet delivering quality ... |
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Arkham Horror: it’s all good fun until someone gets devoured It was my birthday this week, and from my wife I received Arkham Horror, a co-operative board game based on the classic role-playing game Call of Cthulhu – which in itself draws much of its content and vibe from the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. Set ... |
Debug IIS Macro for Visual Studio This is a little macro that you can use in Visual Studio to make it easy to attach to the w3wp processes that are spawned by IIS: Public Sub AttachToWebServer() Dim process As EnvDTE.Process For Each process In DTE.Debugger.LocalPr... |
More layers = more complexity We had an interesting discussion on the course a couple of weeks ago that I thought was worth summarising here. One of the key functional requirements of the case study that we run through is that the system should be able to distribute data ... |
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Where do you start? (video) I've had a few people ask me whether there is a video to go with the slides from my "Where do you start?" talk. The answer is yes ... Skills Matter recorded the session that I presented at the Skills Matter eXchange in London a couple of ... |
Enterprise Software Developer training course I'm pleased to say that, from September, I'll be running a new training course called Enterprise Software Developer. Where Software Architecture for Developers focusses on the architecture and design elements of software projects, the new ... |
Estimating a software system One of the things that we teach people on our Software Architecture for Developers training course is how to design software if all you have is a set of requirements and a blank sheet of paper. The approach that we present is based upon the ... |
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A very cloudy forecast We officially launched our new range of cloud services on Tuesday 6th July with a topical seminar held at the Royal Yacht Hotel, St Helier. Keynote speaker Simon Wardley (pictured below) delivered an excellent presentation looking at the implications of ... |
.NET Programmer This IT-based organisation are seeking a .NET programmer and would be interested in web programmers. You would be a website and back office systems programmer and will preferably have experience with .NET but, as skills are transferable, experience with ... |
Analyst - Risk Monitor You will be responsible for key client relationships, working alongside the head of business and in development of risk analysis and reporting technology, specific to key business areas. You should be a strong self-starter with a keen interest in ... |