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Aug 1 2009

Microsoft announces Windows 7 family pack pricing

I almost missed the news of this but yesterday, Microsoft announced the pricing for Windows Anytime Upgrade and the Windows 7 Family Pack.  Family pack bundling is something that Windows has needed for a while now and I'm kinda glad that the pricing seems pretty good.

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3 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 9:49 PM - Categories: Tech News | Microsoft

Jul 25 2009

Ever wonder if your website is blocked by a certain government?

In a world of internet censorship, it's hard to know exactly what your audience is going to see.  Certain governments (or ISPs) may block your site or change how your site is displayed to the user.  There isn't much that you can do to stop a nation like China or Iran from blocking your website but it would be nice to know that your website is blocked.  One way to know someone in every totalitarian nation but if you don't, there is a good option.  Just Ping has 37 servers around the world that you can use to ping a server of your choice.  It's not as inclusive as it could be but it seems to do a good job.

3 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 9:50 PM - Categories: Development

Jul 14 2009

Can't afford cfunited? Win a free cfunited ticket from railo!

Can afford to go to cfunited?  Railo, the maker of a great (open source) CFML server, is giving away a ticket to cfunited.  The competition runs from July 15th through July 21st and in order to enter, you need to tweet something cool and/or funny and use the tag #cfunited-railo.

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2 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 11:36 AM - Categories: Railo

Previous Posts

Jul 13

Adobe releases public beta of CF 9 and CF Builder

4 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 12:12 AM - Categories: ColdFusion |

Jul 10

Unemployed? Why not learn Flex?

2 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 3:00 PM - Categories: Flex |

Jul 8

Adobe releases HitFix for CF8 FCKeditor vulnerability

1 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 3:09 PM - Categories: ColdFusion |

Jul 8

Google Chrome Operating System Announced

2 comments - Posted by Joe Steinbring at 7:10 AM - Categories: Tech News |