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New Servers – Costing them Out.

Posted on January 9, 2012 by TimIgoe

When planning server upgrades and features, cost is always high on my personal consideration list. This isn’t just an upfront cost or a monthly cost but what gets called the total cost of ownership. What you pay over the life … Continue reading →

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Even Microsoft Wants to rid the world of IE6 now

Posted on March 5, 2011 by TimIgoe

10 years ago now, Microsoft unleashed Internet Explorer 6 on the world… even now it is still a heavily used browser, even after 2 upgrades have been released and a 3rd is on the way this year. Microsoft themselves have … Continue reading →

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Is it good to work without a framework now?

Posted on March 3, 2011 by TimIgoe

My initial thought would be “god no”, however there are some benefits to working without one. The biggest advantage to what I’ll call stray code, without any form of framework is its easy to add to, anyone can jump in … Continue reading →

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Facebook Visualising Friendships

Posted on December 14, 2010 by TimIgoe

You can do interesting things with data, in this case a Facebook engineer has taken all the Facebook friend relationships and mapped them out producing the following image. Click here to view a high rest image of this Every relationship … Continue reading →

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Facebook Places Goes Live in the UK

Posted on September 18, 2010 by TimIgoe

With the recent roll out of the new “Places” service, it is now possible to tag your current location on your Facebook account and broadcast it all to your friends. Facebook aren’t the first to develop such a system, however … Continue reading →

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