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Archive for February, 2009
SQL Server: Set up Linked Server to MySQL
I saw a post yesterday that explains the simple process of setting up a MySQL database as a linked server in Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server has had the linked server functionality for years now. In short it allows you to set up a data connection to another RDBMS and grab your data from it. [...]
New AIR Application: CL Desktop
Ever been on Criagslist before? I am sure most everyone has by now, at least to browse some listings. It has one of the most minimalist designs of any popular site in history. If you have ever wished for a nicer looking layout for the site, look no further. CL Desktop is an Adobe AIR [...]
Verity and ColdFusion – Suggestions
So I guess I have been living under a rock. Today I came across the suggestions attribute that started shipping with ColdFusion 7. In short, this feature will attempt to suggest better search criteria than what the user provided. For example, if you type in "blgo" as your search criteria, it may return no results. [...]
ColdFusion & .NET: Using FTP to Upload a File
Our next little topic in the series comparing ColdFusion and .NET will cover the simple task of uploading a file via FTP. This task is fairly easy in both languages as you will see below. We will look at the ColdFusion code first. ColdFusion includes the handy CFFTP tag to handle all of our FTP [...]
Using Twitter to Drive Sales?
While reading the news this morning I came across this article by Sarah Milstein describing how two companies have used Twitter to increase sales. One of them was Dell, who has claimed to have made over a million in revenue due to Twitter. The second company was Namecheap, a domain registrar. They used Twitter as [...]
Deterring a Cyber Attack?
One of my favorite blogs is Danger Room. It's great reading for all things related to national security. Today they had a post on cyberattacks and raised the question if the United States was ready to defend against one. Paul Kurtz, a cyber security veteran of the Clinton and Bush administrations, doesn't think we are. [...]
Jack Dorsey Explains the Beginning of Twitter
The Los Angeles Times has a very nice post on how Jack Dorsey and his pals started Twitter. It's an interesting read, especially when he details the inspiration behind it all. Believe it or not, his first thoughts revolved around bicycle messengers, and their status. He also goes into detail on how they decided on [...]
Facebook Listens, Reverses Terms of Service Change
Facebook has listened! After being the target of criticism for it's new updates to the terms of service, they have changed face and reverted back to the old terms of service. Below is the message posted to all Facebook accounts letting users know of the change back to the old terms: Over the past few [...]
Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Now
To go along with the post earlier on the updates to the Facebook terms of service, I came across this post from the folks at AllFaceBook.com. It covers their 10 privacy settings that Facebook users should be aware. So if you are a user of Facebook check these out to see if any are useful [...]
Facebook Owns Your Data, All of It!
I am sure most of you have heard by now that Facebook slyly updated it's terms of service on February 4th. Most people probably never read such things when they signed up for accounts on the web, but if you are user of Facebook you may want to read the updated terms of service and [...]
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