Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Technorati's Lessons Learned The Doc Searls Weblog points to an article by David Sifry, listing their cascading troubles that started with a fire at their colocation facility. I went through a similar learning experience while I was at BugCentral.com and we had our servers hosted by USDataCenters. Short answer: you should have a local UPS on your machine with 'soft shutdown' software in place so that your box doesn't get corrupted when the rest of the facility goes down. There's a Mr. Murphy here, and he's got a torch. David Sifry: The colo fire has led to a cascade of failures... 2:38:39 PM    comment []

CoDE Focus special issue on VFP 9 available for download A special issue of CoDE magazine, called CoDE Focus, has been released for VFP 9. I know in the past, Microsoft underwrote these issues, though I don't know if it is true for this one. Great articles by Doug Hennig, Cathy Pountney, Rod Paddock, David T. Anderson, and more! http://www.code-magazine.com/downloads/VFP9Focus.pdf 1:53:34 PM    comment []

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