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Of late one may have noticed that I have become very interested in high-brow, generally vaporous, disciplines such as RESTful data services, data interoperability and cloud computing whilst coincident with that has been the inexorable rise of the term “mashup” in the information technology lexicon. “Mashup” means different things to different ...

One month ago I published a review of Google Maps for Mobile and Windows Live Search for Mobile which you can read here. Today Gear Digest have published their own, much more detailed, comparison of the two as well as Yahoo's similar offering. Unlike myself who just did a feature-by-feature comparison Gear Digest make a firm ...

Jay Neely has published a blog entry comparing Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft's Popfly and Google's Mashup Editor. I don't know anything about Google Mashup Editor because I haven't used it yet so I can't comment there but I've had a play with Pipes and Popfly.   Whilst it was an interesting read it confirmed an opinion that I ...

I'm forever getting stick from some of my dear colleagues on my current project that developing SSIS packages is nothing more than a bit of drag-and-drop. When the likes of .Net developers such as Andy say this (and its usually him saying it) I counter by saying that their kind only need 6 buttons on their keyboard ...