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I could not have said it better myself. “This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,” the person said. [ Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Wont Embrace Microsofts Windows Vista ] I know there is a better security...

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There are few things more important to a blog than it's RSS feed. However, there are way too many good blogs out there who are playing the equivalent of blogging Russian Rullet with their blog's feed for no good reason.

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  I was reading something about the downfall of twitter and came across a link to a post on Jaiku blog

We know. It is frustrating. We believe the migration to Google App Engine will result in improved stability, so we made the hard call to invest all of our effort in finishing up the port rather than do what was needed to keep up our old servers up to date  [Jaikido Blog | Making progress]

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As mentioned previously, I have been spending quite a bit of time working distributed caching for .NET (Community Server in particular). There are two main commercial players in the .NET space (prior to Microsoft announcing Velocity) ScaleOut and NCache.

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By now it should be obvious that I am big fan of the open source component NVelocity. Most of the examples of its usage are UI related such as view engines for MonoRail and ASP.Net MVC. We (Telligent) also use it to power the theme engine for Graffiti. While it is great to be able to use it in this way, the are a lot more non-web UI uses for it.

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As I previously wrote, Velocity is Microsoft’s entry into Distributed Caching. It is currently in its first public CTP, so there are certainly going to be some rough spots. The documentation is pretty good, but setting it up and using it the first time required some trial and error. Here is a quick overview on getting it Velocity setup and and using the API.

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A couple of days ago, I was chatting with David, I have not blogged since 2004, Penton about the lack of a built in distributed caching solution for .NET. There are a couple of really good third party tools available (more posts coming soon) but since caching adds such a huge boost in performance (if used correctly) it is really struck me as odd that the folks in Redmond had not yet addressed this issue on their own (I do not need a Microsoft certified solution to every problem, but since that is their style, it seemed to odd to be missing one here).

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I am new to the Apple FanBoy world, so I am still feeling my way around the rumors and speculations of what will be announced at next week’s WWDC.

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I am a big fan of 1Password which does a killer job of managing my passwords. In addition to managing passwords, it will also generate new (very) strong passwords when it is time to register for a new site or service. Today, because of either an issue with the Digg password retrieval system or Telligent email spam tools I needed to create a new account on Digg.

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I have been evaluating Linq to SQL and Castle ActiveRecord for a small project I am working on. In end I decided to go with ActiveRecord. As part of my experiment, I did a quick prototype of an ActiveRecord like pattern using Linq to SQL.

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