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Well its been another interesting month albeit a bitter sweet type one mainly because some of the colleagues I’ve got to know in the short time I’ve been here are moving onto pastures new . You know happy for them but will miss them all the...
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At what point do retailers embrace the social shopping sphere? From reviews, comments, payments, marketing and brand voice, where and how do they begin? There are so many social networks and sites here today gone tomorrow that retailers and brands are ...
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Cast your mind back to 1995 when the chairman of Oracle, Larry Ellison stated “The personal computer is a ridiculous device”, later followed by “It's too hard to use, too powerful, too costly...” Larry Ellison was off course championing what he thought...
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Yesterday lunchtime I went along to the ICA to listen to Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail, talk about his new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. The book is already causing waves. Anderson’s Conde Nast stable...
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I recently inherited some SQL that someone else had written and had the job of “tidying it up” before it gets pushed out to production. Here’s a slightly simplified (yes, simplified) version of that SQL: 1: --options 2: select asset_class 3: , case when...
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This week it was announced that we, EMC Conchango, are one of the first partners to be accredited by Google in their new Conversion Professionals program. Not only are we delighted to have been selected after a rigorous process of interviews, exams and...
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I have recently started to look at the changes introduced with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1, the first thing I have looked at is Workflow Foundation 4.0. In this post I will create a simple example which illustrates a long running workflow...
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The remote server returned an unexpected response: (400) Bad Request. Server stack trace: at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelUtilities.ValidateRequestReplyResponse(HttpWebRequest request, HttpWebResponse response, HttpChannelFactory factory, WebException...
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I suggested last year that National Geographic would probably not include Cloud Datacentres in their megastructures series. I am in Dublin just as MSFT launch their “ mega datacentre ”. Perhaps they should!...
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Shrink yourself to the size of an ant and think of a classic server as a mini data centre. Banks upon banks of memory, multiple disks, many CPU cores and even network interfaces. The OS manages all of the many processes and threads, sharing the resources...
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Every once in a while you read something that effortlessly communicates the essence of a whole load of jumbled-up thoughts that have been looking for a form of expression, that makes you think ‘That’s it! That’s what I wanted to say!’ Such moments for...
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Lets face it – most IT systems don’t really work as well as we would like. Surely by now we would have figured out how to build systems where you don’t have to have a different username/password for ever system accompanied by different ‘forgot password’...
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I borrowed this quote from Daniel Barenboim’s talk on the Nature and Power of Music. Most technological experiences, especially online, have been primarily visual experiences. The web gives us a visual workout but few online experiences stimulate our...
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Just lately I’ve been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure the main focus of which has been exploring Azure storage (tables, queues, blobs) and how those things can be manipulated from Azure worker roles. One output from that “messing around”...
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I’ve been really impressed by the work a small team here has been doing with Microsoft on Smart Metering, and it has really got me thinking. I was discussing my interest in the subject over a pint with a friend last week. I consider this friend to be...
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An interesting article from Wired on how Nike ‘Unleashed the power of personal metrics’ is highlighted in our latest Experience Planning newsletter. It’s worth taking some time to read this article. Not only because it is a cracking good yarn told well,...
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It was pointed out to me recently that my critical position on SQL Data Services and support for Azure in general are inconsistent, so I thought that a bit of clarification is required. SQL Server is my database of choice and have been using it since...
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A few days ago my Dell Latitude D830 suddenly died on me and would not turn itself back on. The IT department removed my hard disk and placed it inside a new D830. All seemed to work perfectly until I rebooted and started to get the above error. I was...
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UPDATE FROM is dead … or it should be. Hugo Kornelis has done a good job of explaining why. Apart from a badly thought out and non-portable syntax, UPDATE FROM suffers a notorious bug/feature. I say “notorious” but it’s probably not notorious enough because...
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DB2 has some new features that are aimed at customers who want to transition from Oracle to DB2: http://www-05.ibm.com/ch/events/symposium/pdf/9_M_Obrecht_IBM_Symposium_2009.pdf IBM are emphasising the improved snapshot isolation, PL/SQL support and packages...
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My colleague Simon Sabin is holding another user group meeting in Cambridge on the 6th July. The theme is SQL 2008 and should be a lot of fun. If you plan to attend make sure you register – it’s free to attend it’s just so the guys have an idea on numbers...
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Tomorrow night EMC Conchango will be exhibiting at the UK User Professionals' Association careers event . Date : Thursday 25th June 2009 Time : 6.30 for 7pm. Location : LBi, Truman Brewery, 146 Brick Lane, London, E1 6RU The LBi Office is just north of...
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Of late one may have noticed that I have become very interested in high-brow, generally vaporous, disciplines such as RESTful data services , data interoperability and cloud computing whilst coincident with that has been the inexorable rise of the term...
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I have come across a visualization technique called Here and There by Schulze and Webb from Alexis Kennedy (as ever thanks), other blogs and Wired Magazine (UK, June 2009). See below what it looks like: As mentioned in Wired, it is...
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Following the success of the 1 st and 2 nd Fantastic Taverns, we are back for the 3 rd time. Date: Thursday 9 th July Time: 6:30 onwards Venue: The Roebuck , 50 Great Dover Street SE1 4YG It’s no longer the case that digital experience is an adjunct to...
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