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Cost Effective Backup Strategy for a Small Organization

Patrick Hynds writes "...how to cost effectively do backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) for a 50 or so person organization. Here is what I have found to be a pretty good way to go that won't break the bank..."

Interesting Idea - a Closed OS Launching Into the Browser as a Pure Web Device

Markus Egger writes "...So how about Google’s Chrome OS?...A solid state drive will make booting a very fast operation....So for many scenarios, users will be happy with web browsers, but at the same time, they are losing the ability to do anything on their machines. No Word documents to create, no Outlook, no games to play. Will users really be happy using..."

Technology Predictions for 2010

Sondre Bjellas writes "...My main major prediction for The Tens is that it will represents a dramatic shift towards subscription based models for everything...model will become more global, span country borders and become available to anyone, anytime, from anywhere – from any status in society...Another big area of development will be towards simplicity, in all it’s forms and shapes..."

Azure Walkthrough Setting up a Secure Site with SSL Certificate

Sondre Bjellas writes "...Installing and configuring HTTPS certificates is sometimes hard, but I hope this walkthrough...[shows] you how quickly...you can get up and running with a valid SSL certificate..."

How To Deploy a ZIP File to Windows Azure

Steven Smith writes "...the issue here is that a Build Action of “None” means the build and deploy features of Visual Studio will treat your file like a social pariah and ignore it completely...Visual Studio wants nothing to do with it...So the fix to get your ZIP files and other “content” to be deployed to the cloud as part of your Azure deployment package is to..."

SQL Script Shows Open Transactions on the Server

Paul Randal writes "...Here's a little script I knocked up this afternoon to tell me who has open transactions on the server - not just the single oldest active transaction that DBCC OPENTRAN returns..."

Silverlight 4 Code Sample Shows Binding to an Indexed List

Ken Spencer writes "...[I'm] Working on a client app where i need to bind to an indexed list of accounts where each account in the list is an Account object. I got this working today to bind to a generic list indexer:..."

Predictions 2010 ASP.NET MVC vs Webforms

Jackie Goldstein writes "...choosing between Webforms, MVC, and Silverlight. Each technology has its pros and cons, and each development project must be analyzed for its particular needs and tradeoffs. Still, I would offer the following observations:...While on the subject of MVC vs. Webforms, check out the interesting post by Scott Guthrie..."