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Ran across an excellent article today over at NetTuts. It is a perfect starter guide for the intermediate PHP programmer looking to get a good headstart on using PDO (PHP Date Objects) in PHP 5.1 or later. There are two things I would point out to anyone looking to implement PDO in PHP. 1. Make sure you obfuscate (hide) your variables and SQL calls by using prepared statements! This is a life...
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Was just over on Digg and noticed a great new article on XP mode for Windows 7. For those of you that don’t know yet, Windows 7 is turning out to be probably the strongest Windows of them all. One of the great features is the ability to run a built into Windows 7 that will run a full fledged version of Windows XP in it. That way you can still run older legacy software and such that require...
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Why would you want or need to buy Comodo Anti-virus? Well I’ve been in the PC support business for over a decade now and have served thousands of residential and commercial clients, and I have to tell you, this recent entry into the computer security market is an interesting and strong choice for a personal antivirus solution for the home. For this review I decided to take a deeper look at...
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Ok, what in the world is up with Blackberry? They are experiencing yet another outage. Read more here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gBXjLGLS-Y3bKR2z_aneZ7tF3xEAD9CP4D180 This is why I don’t carry one. First of all, to those of you that do, unless your company requires you to carry one I say trade it in for just about any other phone..why? Well first of all there is no...
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I was perusing slashdot last night and came across an interesting bit of news those of you following my post might want to see. Here is a link to the actual article: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BL3FV20091222?type=technologyNews Quick summary: MS uses a proprietary XML reading technology to parse .docx, .xml, etc type documents..the only problem…it’s not theirs. Ooops....
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So now that Windows 7 is on the market I bet you’re thinking: Ok, this is great, but what do I do now? Well the answer is simple. If you have not already upgraded your first task is to determine which version is right for you. That’s where we at CDR Services, Inc. come in. You see, we’ve been playing with Windows 7 since March and, well, we kinda do this for a living. So...
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