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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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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