We all work hard to get the web-sites we develop to look just right. Often this requires the development of many images. Using a designer can mean there is a lot of investment in these images. Then they sit where they were originally placed, and are may be seen by visitors if they visit that [...]

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Open source is a great idea. Find a widget that does what you want, make a contribution to the authors, drop it into your web-site and go forth. There are some great widgets and systems out there. Without Apache, mySQL, and hundreds of other packages the internet and systems development would be a more sterile [...]

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There is a certain satisfaction in solving a client’s major coding problem in a matter of minutes using the Liveperson experts’ chat suite.
Most programmers are used to the black hole syndrome. No matter what you try or how many times you look through the code, you just cannot see the bug. More and more time [...]

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Setting up a series of reports for a client this week on SQL 2008 report server was an interesting experience in how far databases have come since the 1980s. They are now so far from the dba controlled, three week development cycle days of yore, that we are in danger of forgetting why that perceived [...]

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