I was installing an Excel addin across a clients production servers and for some reason when I ran the addin on one of the machines the Addin couldn’t read the config file even though it could on all the others. After digging through registry and other settings and some googling I came across this blog […]
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DocuSign
I recently got to work on a pretty cool project for a client. They needed to have their employee’s electronically sign their time cards which were generated by a SSRS report exported as a PDF. To accomplish this we used DocuSign which has a really good SOAP API and was really easy to work with. […]
Read moreAmazon RDS for SQL Server
Earlier this month Amazon announced that you can now use RDS with SQL Server. I have been using RDS for MySQL about 9 months now and really like. It automates many of the administrative tasks, but gives you a backup within an availability zone. This will allow me to suggest AWS as a hosting option […]
Read moreCloudberry Backup Desktop
I recently started using Cloudberry’s Backup Desktop edition as my Carbonite (Online Backup) subscription is running out. In their newest version 2.0 they have added the ability to backup to a local folder or network share. With storage space so cheap now I would much rather backup my music and videos locally. I just bought […]
Read moreGoogle App User and 2 Step Verification
Google announced last week that they will start rolling out the ability of Google App Administrators to require a 2 step verification process for logging in. Many of us are used to this with company VPNs when using a RSA SecurID. Google is offering many options for the 2 step which is great. The […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 – Micro Instances
When you thought it couldn’t be cheaper to start running a server on EC2 Amazon announced micro instances. You can get the micro instance for windows ($0.03/hr) and linux($0.02hr) with 613 MB of RAM. If you get a reserved instance the price drops even lower.
Read morePayPal Soap API
I got to “play” with the PayPal SOAP API last week for a website I was building on. It was very easy to work with and I was surprised at how quick I could could get a checkout page going in ASP.NET/C#. It could have been quicker but some of the documentation on the PayPal site was […]
Read moreAmazon CloudFront Invalidation Feature
At the end of August Amazon announced that CloudFront now has an invalidation feature which can clear the files from the edge locations before the expiration period. The other day I got to try out this new feature when I had a file I needed to update and didn’t really want to wait the 1hr […]
Read moreAmazon Cloudfront 1hr TTL
I just recently read that you can now set the TTL of an object on Amazon’s Cloudfront to 1 hr instead of the 24 hr minimum that it used to be. I only found this out because I was reading through the discussion forums looking to see if there was an ETA of when this […]
Read moreAmazon Wireless Website
Amazon has rolled out a new website specializing in cell phones and wireless service plans. The site offers great deals for new activations and upgrades. Click here to check it out.
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