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iCloud is Apple's contribution to the new cloud mouvement that is sweeping the IT world. What is different with Apples's offering is that developers can use it in their own applications withou...
The following excerpt is from the recent publication Documents, Presentations, and Workbooks: Using Microsoft Office to Create Content That Gets Noticed and speaks to moving your Office documents to t...
In this excerpt from the recently published book Windows Azure™ Step by Step, some important concepts regarding the security mechanism exposed by WCF Data Services are discussed.
An important concep...
Earlier this year I looked at doing my taxes online but didn't because I wasn't keen on trusting Taxcut to hold and store my data up there in space. I believe we are moving toward more cloud ...
At the recent Microsoft Tech Days / United Kingdom 2011, Andrew Couch, MVP, and author of the forthcoming Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out, presented a session titled, "Microsoft ...
Below we have an excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Programming Amazon EC2 that speaks to working with SimbleDB in that regard. The author goes on to offer a look at a few classes of problems t...
It’s amazing what the AWS team achieved with RDS in a little over a year since it was introduced. The team added the high-availability feature it calls multi-AZ, or multiavailability zone. And after...
Google Labs has lots of great tools. Below are the ones that could be useful to Web developers. Note: This list does not include Graduated services (those that are now a part of mainstream Google); it...
Google Labs has lots of great tools. Below are the ones that could be useful to software developers. Note: This list does not include Graduated services (those that are now a part of mainstream Google...
In this excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, we look at running Hadoop on Amazon EC2, which is a great way to try out your own Hadoop cluster on a lo...