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Case study: Pineapple Boudoir [Infrastructure]
Pineapple Boudoiris a startup that sells lingerie, candles, sex toys and other products, aimed largely at women. The first challenge was to design an infrastructure to support the web-application and cart. Having previous experience with Windows and the .NET environment we decided to follow this...
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Published 4 hours ago

Open letter to Starbucks
To: ukinfo@starbucks.com Date: 19/11/2008 10:32 Subject: Eggnog To whom it may concern, Why why why are Starbucks not selling eggnog latte this year? It is as much a part of the festive season as Santa or Jesus for many people. I received the email telling me that ‘The red cups are here’ but...
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Published 2 weeks ago

The web’s best kept secret
With Christmas coming up and the recession well and truly moved in for the holidays I felt that I should let my readers know about a great untapped resource that for some reason seems to be a big secret. I haven’t seen them advertise, they don’t have banner ads and neither do they link on...
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Published 2 weeks ago

How the weak pound actually benefits me
With everything about the economy being as dire as it is now it is infrequent that good news comes out where money is involved, so when it does I feel compelled to document it. The pound is currently very weak against the dollar. This must be bad, you would think from the phrasing. Weak is...
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Published a month ago

Other stuff from Microsoft’s ‘Technologies to change your business’ event
Apart from the Windows Cloud stuff there were some other speakers and demos that interested me, including a neat use of Silverlight at the Hard Rock Café website which you may have seen before as it has been bounded around as the pièce de résistance of Silverlight 2 since about March this...
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Published 2 months ago

Windows Cloud @ Technologies to change your business
I travelled across to London yesterday to attend the Microsoft Technet event, ‘Technologies to change your business’, the keynote speaker was Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. He came on stage at around 13:15 and proceeded to do his usual thing, he’s a great public speaker and very...
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Published 2 months ago

Stop being so Sully!
I’m tired of complaining about the farce that gets published in the South Wales Echo, so, we’ll just have a laugh at this one, because seriously, is this a real campaign? Plus, the part that is comical appears to be a quote, rather than something that their crackpot pseudo-journalists have...
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Published 3 months ago

No more comments behind my back
After probably six months or so of being out of action, I finally decided to take a look at the bug that was causing comments on Hintofsarcasm not to work. I realised that I made a decision some time ago to change the name of the comment post script, wp-comments-post.php to something that the...
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Published 4 months ago