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Forbes – Dan Woods
Instead, PHPers argue that PHP is the best choice for simple tasks involved in most Web sites and is actually faster to program for these tasks. …
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N.S. company helps build plasma rocket
Last Updated: Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 2:06 PM ET
CBC News
Engineers at Ad Astra Rocket Co. assemble a prototype plasma rocket engine using Nautel’s radio-frequency amplifiers. (Ad Astra Rocket Co.)A Nova Scotia company that builds transmitters for radio stations is helping develop a new plasma rocket engine that could cut a trip to Mars down to just 40 days…

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By: Brian Prince
2010-01-27

With its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle is bringing the MySQL database into the fold, which analysts agree will pose a challenge for Microsoft and IBM. IBM, however, says its strategy will be unaffected…

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ASP.NET MVC provides added flexibility and control.

By Dino Esposito
InformationWeek
January 30, 2010 12:01 AM (From the February 1, 2010 issue)

ASP.NET is a stable, mature, and productive Web development platform, but the 8-year-old framework is showing signs of age. One alternative is MonoRail, a variation of the classic Web Forms model based on views (the HTML output) and controllers (methods executed in response to requests). MonoRail’s views are produced by an ad hoc engine that uses a source template and input data to produce the HTML.With MonoRail, you don’t focus on pages as you do with Web Forms. Instead, you focus on the actions being taken from the page (methods on a controller class) and its user interface (markup and data placeholders in the view). This leads to separation of concerns (SoC), where the functions of each feature in the program overlap as little as possible, and higher testability…

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CONTEST: Tweet to Win a Free Apple iPad!

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If you just ordered a Kindle, stop reading now or you’re in for a giant dose of buyer’s remorse. Barnes and Noble unveiled a new e-book reader called ‘Nook’, and it is hot, both inside and out.

Nook looks a lot like Amazon’s white plastic e-book reader, only instead of the chiclet-keyboard there is a color multitouch screen, to be used as a keyboard or to browse books, cover-flow style. The machine runs Google’s Android OS and it will have wireless capability from AT&T.

The $260 Nook–same price as the Kindle 2–is expected to be on sale at the end of November.

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Great week to be on the Gulf Coast.  Still in Alabama, but can see Florida just down the road.  This is already a great start to Thanksgiving week.  Marlin Key is the name of the condos where the pictures below were taken.  Marlin Key is on the Alabama side of Perdido Key.

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