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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Dumb Password Policies

December 23, 2008 – 12:03 pm

Websites, please stop making me use your arcane password complexity rules.

By Ed Laczynski | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Entry Level Cloud Computing for Enterprises

December 22, 2008 – 2:02 pm

As the saying goes, “No one’s been fired for buying IBM,” so let’s look at some low-risk, high-return entry points into the cloud for today’s IT manager

By Ed Laczynski | Posted in amazon, cloud, google apps, virtualization | Comments (1)

Do interesting things with Google Apps

December 16, 2008 – 2:52 am

What else can developers do for Google Apps?  A open, flexible Facebook-style API for Apps would be awesome.  Imagine the community building the next generation office platform. Right now, developers outside of Google can write Gadgets that live on the outside layout areas of GMail. Google developers have done some interesting things with Labs – I [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Posted in cloud, google, google apps, mashups, microsoft | Comments (0)
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