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Google Loves Competition

Google has announced a new Chrome-based operating system. Of course, if you read blogs like mine, there’s no way you didn’t already know that. It amazes me how many people assume Google wants to drive Microsoft out of business. From a ZDNet article: “The Chrome OS is a

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Connecting PHP, IIS 6, and SQL Server 2005

I know I will be accosted for this, but at work we needed to run PHP on IIS 6 (fairly simple) and connect it to a remote database server running SQL Server 2005 (not terrible, once I gave up the Microsoft way). Yeah yeah, do it in ASP.NET, I

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Microsoft Listened

We all complained, and Microsoft listened to the community: IE8 will now render in IE8-mode by default, and “developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that explicitly.” Obviously, this is good news for all forward-looking, standards-aware, progressively-enhancing developers out there. But