Overview of Turnkey Social Network Providers

TechCrunch had a great overview of some top turnkey SNS providers a week or so ago. They plan to also do a review soon of some downloadable solutions and custom […]

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Securing Remote Desktop with SSL

Good article on WindowSecurity.com about securing RDP using SSL. Important for PCI Compliance & better security in general. Note that if you already have an SSL certificate from GeoTrust, etc. […]

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Mosso now supports .NET 2.0 & .NET 3.0

I just noticed on Mosso’s FAQ that they now support .NET 2.0 & .NET 3.0. That’s good news, since when I looked at them before they only supported ASP.NET 1.1. […]

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Facebook API Overview

Marc Andreessen’s synopsis of the facebook platform/API is a good read for would-be social developers. Not that developers are social, er, I mean developers for social networks. Favorite quote from […]

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Excel Scrolling Tales from IM

You can now scroll more easily through data in Excel 2007, as told in IM chat form (inspired by 37 signals’ Fireside Chat posts). BWS = me, DSM = Scott. [08:46] […]

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Widget Deployment and Integration

Saw this small gem on my LinkedIn Answers network. Someone asked about developing widgets to be used in social networking platforms. Nice answer from Frank Speiser: This isn’t an answer […]

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SubSonic DAL layers in Visual Studio

SubSonic is an open source project loosely modeled after Rails. It uses BuildProviders to automatically generate the DAL/ORM code at compile time, meaning you don’t have to manually regenerate code […]

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