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Who is looking at who?

by Robby Pedrica 6 July 2012 Commentary

Analysis of website usage is a huge part of understanding how to improve websites, how to give visitors a better surfing experience and how to maximise the time a visitor spends on a site ( potentially purchasing items while they are there ). SEO, or search engine optimisation, goes hand in hand with site analysis [...]

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The Great phone debate?

by Nicolas Blank 9 February 2012 Commentary

Windows Phone 8 Preview’s are out, and they are tempting! Tempting to what you may ask? The temptation is to wait. Nokia is expected to release the Lumia 900 as the crown jewel of  the Lumia range  (possibly sooner than expected) running Windows Phone 7.5. Windows Phone 8, however, sharing a platform with Windows 8 [...]

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PHP Applications: Pt 2 – phpMyAdmin

by Robby Pedrica 22 September 2011 Applications

No discussion of MySQL is complete without mentioning phpMyAdmin, ( in my opinion ) the best web-based management tool around. PMA has grown from a simple web client to a full featured MySQL management interface with a lot of bells and whistles. The current release of PMA ( 3.4.x ) requires at minimum php 5.2 [...]

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PHP Applications: Pt 1 – Mantis

by Robby Pedrica 19 September 2011 Applications

I’ll be doing a series of articles on PHP applications over the next few weeks and months. As a preface to these, some background is necessary. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that was inked with Web development in mind, and it produces dynamic web pages. PHP pages are interpreted on the fly using a [...]

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The future of hosted Exchange using Exchange 2010 SP2

by Nicolas Blank 30 August 2011 Anouncements

In a previous post I discussed where it looks like the Exchange product is headed for hosting companies. Today the Exchange product group published a statement which includes: We want to enable our hosting partners to offer the same rich feature set that our on-premises customers are used to. As such, with the release of [...]

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Windows 8 File Explorer Adds Office Style Ribbon

by Nicolas Blank 30 August 2011 Commentary

We’ve been following the enhancements made to Windows 8. In a previous post we looked at the various teams writing for Windows 8, and today were going to look at one of the new visual features of Windows 8, the Office Style Ribbon, in the Windows 8 File Explorer. Lets look at some of the [...]

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Exchange Deployment Assistant adds “Cloud Only”

by Nicolas Blank 30 August 2011 Anouncements

Before you think that Microsoft no longer support an on-premise version of Exchange, be aware that this is a new option in the Existing Exchange Deployment Assistant. Quoting from the entry on the Microsoft Exchange Blog: To help you sort through the available options and plan your migration to the cloud, we’re happy to announce [...]

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Windows 8 features

by Nicolas Blank 26 August 2011 Commentary

You may be wondering – “But I’ve just gotten used to Windows 7” and the cycle starts again, for another release of Windows. If you’re wondering what features you can expect, and what makes “8” better than “7”, have a look at the list of the teams busy building Windows 8: App Compatibility and Device [...]

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The Future of hosted Exchange

by Nicolas Blank 11 August 2011 Cloud

If you host Exchange or you’re thinking of hosting Exchange, then you live in interesting times. Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference hosted a number of sessions which re-enforced the software giant’s view on cloud and why partners should move to all things cloud, however – if you’re an Exchange hosting shop – one session would have [...]

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How Steve Jobs did a bad job designing my….

by Nicolas Blank 29 July 2011 Commentary

Steve Jobs is a maverick of a designer, we’ve had tons of cool stuff out of Apple that set the new standard for it “just works”. Not a day goes by without an Apple fan waxing lyrically about what their Apple whatchamaycall 2/3/4 is is doing, and it’s got their really great app that does [...]

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