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The videos for the Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications Jump Start Jump Start event are live on Microsoft Virtual Academy. This is an entire 9 session course, covering the official ASP.NET MVC certification course material. I could have sworn they had this already
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MongoDB, DataStax and Couchbase all have recently scored huge venture capital infusions. Here's why NoSQL is the new darling of the big data movement. SELECT db FROM databases WHERE schema=NULL
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SQL is hard - let's go shopping.
In fact, I am not a fan of SQL at all - just couldn't resist making a "let's go shopping" joke 
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The odd, but popular, assertion that Java is dying can be made only in spite of the evidence, not because of it. "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Google's Eric Schmidt has a reputation for raising eyebrows with his public proclamations, so this latest episode should come as little surprise — the company chairman declared during the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo that Android has a security advantage over Apple's iPhone. And by 'secure', he means, 'makes me more money"
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ASP.NET App Suspend is a big new feature in the .NET Framework 4.5.1. You can read an overview of ASP.NET App Suspend (including a demonstration video) over on the .NET blog. ASP.NET App Suspend is a great feature for shared hosters and Enterprise IT. It enables apps to startup much faster and for each server to host many more apps. In our performance lab, we saw startup time drop by 90% and were able to pack 7 times more sites onto the same machine, when App Suspend was enabled. That’s a unique and welcome combination. "He's not dead, he's just resting!"
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A future of devices and services, go figure To the Cloud!
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Crackers tap new sources to uncover "givemelibertyorgivemedeath" and other phrases. And The Lord set his password to p@ssw0rd, and there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of cloth
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Remember, even a failure can serve as an example of what not to do Don't do as I do, do as I say
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Rather than giving a drop-down listing of every single possible open source license we’ve always include a pragmatic list containing the most popular licenses in use by the community, from permissive licenses like MIT, Apache 2.0 or MS-PL through to different copy-left licenses like GPLv2. Recently the team reviewed the list of licenses project owners can choose from and compared it against the licenses people were wanting to use. It was clear we had a gap and that some developers wanted to publish their projects under GPLv3. So today, GPLv3 has been added as one of the available options in the quick and easy license picker for new projects created on CodePlex. That should blow Richard Stallman's brain (hopefully)
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Microsoft updates Azure, Windows Server and other enterprise products as part of aggressive push into cloud market valued at $2 trillion. Some might even say they're *storming* the enterprise cloud 'market'
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More and more people want to use your web apps on their mobile devices, and the sizes and resolutions of those devices are becoming more diverse by the day. You already know the basics: generally, there are tablets and smartphones with landscape and portrait views. Plus, don’t forget about taking advantage of high-res “retina” displays. Technique #1: Mastering the ability to resize your browser window
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Amazon announced Tuesday a new service called "Login and Pay with Amazon." The service, where enabled, will allow shoppers to check out at third-party retail websites by using the payment information they have stored on Amazon (think of it as Facebook Connect for shopping). It's designed to make checking out more streamlined and secure: Shoppers won't have to enter their payment information during checkout, and they won't have to store that information at an additional site. Oh, *someone* please knock PayPal down
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How is this different from the existing Amazon Payments service?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think the idea that people can just put it on their own sites (like the paypal button), not just retailers on the Amazon site.
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TTFN - Kent
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Again, I've seen sites offering a row of pay buttons: Paypal, Amazon, and Google for years. Others like KickStarter use Amazon Payment, IIRC, as their only payment option.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Huh. Yo no se then. I was assuming this was new functionality as they were announcing it and all. I had thought that all the people that had Amazon payment buttons were those on Amazon servers (either through AWS or their affiliate store stuff). Lessons learned, I guess.
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TTFN - Kent
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I did a bit of hunting and found a comparison between the two services from Amazon (it appears that all the tech journalists writing about it failed as badly as Mashable did). Apparently what's new is that they're offering an API so it can be more tightly integrated into your sites checkout process vs only offering a fully packaged solution suitable for setup without being a developer.
https://payments.amazon.com/business/productsandservices[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Aaaaahh there we go. Thank you for the sleuthing.
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TTFN - Kent
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Amazon wants apps for its Kindle Fire tablets and will give developers plenty of reason to build them. "Awww, come on bucko! Don't you want a... balloon?"
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Community strength is a huge factor is determining which JavaScript framework to adopt. Here's a close look at the activity swirling around AngularJS, Backbone.JS, Ember.js, and more Is it hot in here, or is it just this framework?
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I wonder how the list will look like in six months.
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There are a few (OK, a couple) that I think might survive six months: Angular seems to have a lot of momentum now (pun *entirely* on purpose), and it has Google's backing. So, it will likely be around a while. Knockout: pretty much the same, but because of Microsoft's backing. Most of the rest I could easily see the very fickle Web devs dropping pretty fast.
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TTFN - Kent
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What is one Windows? "What it really means common user interface, common programming interface, common security architecture and user interface adaptability and common developer model and key services," said Ballmer. Just as soon as people start demanding the lowest common functionality
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They don't guide their companies towards transformative uses of digital technology, according to a study from MIT and Capgemini In related news: IT workers shocked (that a study got something right)
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