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		<title>The Great phone debate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Blank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#160; the Lumia range&#160; (possibly sooner than expected) running Windows Phone 7.5. Windows Phone 8, however, sharing a platform with Windows 8 [...]
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		<title>PHP Applications: Pt 2 – phpMyAdmin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>PHP Applications: Pt 1 &#8211; Mantis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby Pedrica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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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		<title>The future of hosted Exchange using Exchange 2010 SP2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Blank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Windows 8 File Explorer Adds Office Style Ribbon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Blank</dc:creator>
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		<title>Exchange Deployment Assistant adds &#8220;Cloud Only&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Blank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Windows 8 features</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Blank</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Future of hosted Exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Blank</dc:creator>
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		<title>How Steve Jobs did a bad job designing my&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Blank</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Storage Calculator and Virtualization Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas Blank</dc:creator>
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