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Install Apache/PHP/MySQL on Snow Leopard One of the responsibilities of every practicing developer is to pass along high...
MySQL TCO For what its worth, the MySQL folks have a Total Cost of Ownership calculator...
Visual Studio Add-ons Another great “in depth” article was published in Visual Studio...
Evernote API Evernote is a useful service. I access this “note taking...

Install Apache/PHP/MySQL on Snow Leopard

June 15, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

One of the responsibilities of every practicing developer is to pass along high quality references, tutorials, etc. to fellow practitioners. If you are interested in installing Apache, PHP, MySQL on Snow Leopard, here’s just such a reference. I think the list of Thank You’s is 10 times longer than the article. That’s how good [...]

Development

Apache, featured, mysql, PHP

MySQL TCO

June 11, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

For what its worth, the MySQL folks have a Total Cost of Ownership calculator available that is interesting (if not shocking). Here’s a comparison to Microsoft SQL and Sybase: MySQL Microsoft Sybase Product Line MySQL Microsoft SQL Server Sybase ASE Product Edition Enterprise Edition (1-4 Socket Server) Enterprise Edition Enterprise Edition Pricing Model Per Server [...]

Deployment

featured, mySQL TCO

Visual Studio Add-ons

June 8, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

Another great “in depth” article was published in Visual Studio Magazine; this one by Peter Vogel entitled: 17 Free Tools for Visual Studio. The tools selected: LINQPad, LInQ Visualizer, SMTP4Dev, P/Invoke Interop Assistant , Regulator, Regex Editor Add-In, Fiddler, ProjectConverter, DevExpress CodeRush Xpress, VS10x Code Map v2, DPack, JScript Editor Extensions, XAML Styler, Code Metrics Viewer, [...]

Development, Tools

.NET, featured

Evernote API

June 4, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

Evernote is a useful service. I access this “note taking application” from all of my computing devices. It is a great way to organize ideas, maintain clips and links of interest and share information. The company’s growth is incredible. Here’s a snippet describing their subscriber base: Speaking of growing faster, here is Evernote’s registered user [...]

Tools, Usability

featured

iPhone Dev – Make the Call

June 1, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

So you own matching black and white iPhones, mastered the subtleties of Objective-C, coded each and every nuance of the 1500+ new APIs in iOS SDK 4, and can build and debug with your eyes closed using the latest version of Xcode. OK, hotshot, here’s a quick quiz question that I get asked at least [...]

Development

featured, iOS

Deployment, Ideation

aws, Cloud, featured, vmware

Amazon RDS for Oracle DB

May 25, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

Amazon never stops innovating. They occasionally stumble, but they are always moving forward. As a long time AWS developer, I appreciate their willingness to push the envelope. Just announced: Amazon Relational Database Service allows you to “deploy multiple editions of Oracle Database 11g in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable hardware capacity”. Here’s their summary: Amazon [...]

Deployment

aws, database, featured, oracle

Vaadin

May 22, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

I first started developing with Vaadin about a year ago for a business intelligence project written against the Java stack. Vaadin is a server-side Ajax web application development framework that allows you to build web applications just as you would with traditional desktop frameworks, such as AWT or Swing. Developing with the framework follows the [...]

Development, Usability

Java

dotPeek 1.0 EAP Now Available

May 18, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

I just received my developer notification for JetBrains new .NET decompiler tool. The company makes a number of great .NET development tools: ReSharper, dotTrace, and dotCover. This new tool, dotPeek, is now available free-of-charge as an Early Access Preview. Here’s their spin: What’s Cool about dotPeek? Decompiling .NET 1.0-4.0 assemblies to C# Quick jump to [...]

Development, Tools

.NET

Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 Keynote

May 16, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

The Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 keynote is now available. It is worth viewing. Just authenticate with your Windows Live credentials and you’ll have access to the keynotes, news stories, “The Taste of Tech-Ed” and more. Here’s Microsoft’s spin: Join Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Server and Tools Marketing, Robert Wahbe and Corporate Vice President, Visual Studio, Jason [...]

Design, Ideation

.NET

EF 4.1 – The Big Question

May 14, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

Visual Studio Magazine recently asked Gil Fink his thoughts about EF 4.1 and Code First in this article: “Five Questions on Code First in Entity Framework”. Fellow .NET developers will be happy to see that the big question on all of our minds was included in the five asked: VSM: Entity Framework has come a [...]

Development

.NET

Qt SDK 1.1 Released

May 11, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

From the Qt Developer email notification: Qt SDK 1.1 and Qt 4.7.3 Libraries released The Qt team is pleased to release the Qt SDK 1.1 for desktop and mobile development. Using the Qt SDK you benefit from the Qt Creator IDE as a starting point for your development and you can also speed up your [...]

Tools

featured, Qt

Google I/O 2011

May 9, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

It is Google I/O 2011 time. Lots of great ideas get kicked around at this conference, best practices are shared, and new development tools and platforms are explored. Many sessions are being streamed live to the web here. Most sessions are being recorded for eventual playback on the GoogleDeveloper’s Channel on YouTube. Here are a [...]

Ideation

Google

Google Storage Dev Update

May 7, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

A few days ago I received an email notice regarding my Google Storage Developer account. It is posted online here. Here’s the update: We’re making some changes to Google Storage for Developers to make team-based development easier. As part of this work, we are introducing a concept of a project. In preparation for this feature, [...]

Development

Google, storage

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