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Archive for December, 2008

SQL Server Script: Backup a Database to File

Sometimes you need a simple script to backup the full DB to a file. Some of the uses of the script I found were: To create a nightly job; simply have a hard file backup on a drive To generate a file on demand for restore to other environments (dev/stage/uat) And to be part of [...]

Tracking Holiday Packages

One site: takes all tracking codes (Fedex, UPS, etc) provides a Google Maps display provides RSS feed functionality What more code you ask for? http://boxoh.com/

Amid Layoffs, Adobe Posts 11% Profit Jump for Q4

Interesting… http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Adobe-4Q-profit-grows-revenue-apf-13848640.html

Grading PCI Compliant Managed Hosts

In this post, we’ll try to create a grading system for PCI Compliant Managed Hosts, which I’ll later use to go over several hosts whom I’ve been interviewing and dealing with over the past 3 months. This is all new territory for me, and for the industry. There is no coherent grading system, and its [...]

PCI Compliant Managed Hosts – GSI Hosting

GSI Hosting was really aggresive from the get go about talking on the phone. Once I did, I knew I was talking with guys who knew their stuff, and were in a completely different league. Not only are they experts in the security area for a while, but they’ve gotten PCI down, and can ask [...]

PCI Compliant Managed Hosts – Rackspace

First off, a lot of people like Rackspace. Their website looks very credible, they are publicly traded, and the seems to know what they are doing. However, my dealings with Rackspace, over the past several years, has shown them to be the opposite. Case in point: PCI Compliant Hosting. Rackspace offers a “PCI Toolbox.” You [...]

Tis a Sad Day – Sr. CF Product Mgr Laid Off w/ Silver Lining

As many of you guys know by now, Jason Delmore was among the 600+ laid off by Adobe recently. While I don’t know if anyone else in the CF team was affected, I do know that Jason was a tremendous asset to the team. Reading this in the blogosphere, I was hoping to find some [...]

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