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Agile Web Operations — Helping web developers and operations bridge the deployment gap
August 20, 2010 – 6:03 am | No Comment

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Welcome to Agile Web Operations – a blog to help web developers and operations bridge the deployment gap.
Successful web development requires both solid coding and in-depth operational know-how. No matter whether you come from an …

From the Sys Admin Toolbox: Logwatch
June 7, 2010 – 6:16 pm | No Comment

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Now, what will you, as a system administrator, use to watch logs? Logwatch, of course. As so many others have succinctly put it, messing with log files is a royal pain in the backside. …

Video: Five Linux rescue tools for recovering Windows, Mac, or Linux machines
June 5, 2010 – 5:01 pm | No Comment

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When a machine won’t boot users often panic. But with the right tools, a seasoned IT pro can often revive a seemingly unbootable PC or at the very least recover the user’s data. During this …

Using domain, URL and port redirection and mod_rewrite on Apache Servers
May 25, 2010 – 9:16 am | No Comment

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This is the best tutorial on Apache mod_rewrite I've ever read. I think, finally, the light bulb is going off.
This easy to understand guide with useful examples will show you how to redirect virtually …

Agile Development Lessons from Zynga Farmville
March 19, 2010 – 9:10 pm | No Comment
Agile Development Lessons from Zynga Farmville

He and Amitt also talked about the ability of tying each experience to a point of monetization—at user account creation, users status page and status viewing; but also that the best way is to bring the promotion into the game. He talked specifically about a promotion they ran with FTD where in the game you could buy a virtual boquet; and integrating product placement into the story line yielded he said 3-5x conversion rates. He also was big on two tier currencies; which I understood as a base currency that users mostly earn through time and effort in the game; and a second more mega currency that maps to premium monetization of user actions; and links with more “subscriber” class buyers.

HootSuite
March 16, 2010 – 6:05 am | No Comment

TweetShareHootSuite describes itself as the professional Twitter client.
With Hootsuite you can:
Monitor your personal brand
Schedule Tweets
Personalize your view
Embed columns into other web sites
Manage multiple accounts on various social networks
Use Hootsuite with your iPhone
Track statistics
Manage Twitter lists
Create …

Techcrunch: Linus Torvalds: Google’s Nexus One First Mobile Phone I Don’t Hate
February 7, 2010 – 10:53 am | No Comment
Techcrunch:  Linus Torvalds:  Google’s Nexus One First Mobile Phone I Don’t Hate

TweetShareI haven’t seen the Google Nexus One yet, but I’ve listened to and read reviews.  From what I’ve heard, if I were to give up my iPhone, this would be the phone I would choose.  …

Citrix vs WMWare: Citrix Storagelink tips the scales
February 5, 2010 – 10:30 am | No Comment
Citrix vs WMWare:  Citrix Storagelink tips the scales

Those of you who regularly work with virtualization technologies know the many frustrations and concerns surrounding providing a proper storage infrastructure for virtualization. In particular, we often spend top dollar for high-end storage arrays from companies such as EMC in order to gain the support and high availability that these arrays offer. However, much of what makes these arrays high-end winds up being wasted in the implementation of these arrays for virtualization.