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		<title>Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP returns DateTime Object</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/13/microsoft-sql-server-driver-for-php-returns-datetime-object/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/13/microsoft-sql-server-driver-for-php-returns-datetime-object/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mssql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/?p=1081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting gotcha feature with the Microsoft SQL Server extension for PHP on Windows. When querying against a column defined as a datetime, the native PHP SQL Server extension returns a string where as the Microsoft extension returns a DateTime object. So if you are expecting a string, you&#8217;ll need to adjust your code accordingly.
I personally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Love the Cloud/I Hate the Cloud</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/05/i-love-the-cloudi-hate-the-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/05/i-love-the-cloudi-hate-the-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/?p=990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Developers have been consuming &#8220;cloud&#8221; services long before it was a buzzword. For me the first real transition to a cloud mentality was with web services. WSDL&#8217;s provided a uniform way to consume a remote resource that was tuned to provide specific information. There were of course limitations with data typing etc, but most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Don&#8217;t Use Clouds</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/04/people-dont-use-clouds/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/04/people-dont-use-clouds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/?p=1047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Are Microsoft Outlook and Apple&#8217;s Mail, software? Are web based products like Gmail and Windows Live Mail cloud offerings? What about Flickr? I can edit my photos using Picnic (for now) giving me basic photo editing functionality. Does moving traditional desktop applications into a web browser make them into &#8220;cloud&#8221; software? If so, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Types of Clouds</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/03/three-types-of-clouds/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/03/three-types-of-clouds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hosting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/?p=1030</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Last night I attended CloudCamp in Minneapolis. While there was much healthy discussion about the &#8220;cloud&#8221;, one thing became crystal clear for me. The cloud means different things to different people. George Reese summed it up well, there are three distinct types of clouds: Infrastructure, Platform and Software. I took away from the discussions that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honesty Box: EBS Performance Revisited</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/02/honesty-box-ebs-performance-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2010/03/02/honesty-box-ebs-performance-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[amazon web services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonnie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ec2]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[raid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/?p=996</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my work on Honesty Box, I&#8217;ve been reviewing EBS disk performance once again. This was a great opportunity to expand on the research from last year. After re-reading what I posted then, along with the wealth of data that has been compiled since, I realized I still didn&#8217;t have sufficient information to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Pricing Models</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/12/14/cloud-pricing-models/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/12/14/cloud-pricing-models/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3Tera]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[memcached]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/?p=973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday Amazon announced their Spot pricing model. Effectively providing market driven pricing for instances on EC2. Depending on your product, this probably won&#8217;t impact you much, but it got me to thinking about pricing of the cloud. Amazon&#8217;s Web Services was a game changer when it launched. Buy the computing resources you need for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Opening US-WEST-1</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/12/02/amazon-opening-us-west-1/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/12/02/amazon-opening-us-west-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aws]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/2009/12/02/amazon-opening-us-west-1/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I don&#8217;t have access to it yet, apparently Amazon has opened  US-WEST-1 for EC2. Customers using enStratus have access already.
This is important because anyone leveraging platforms like Facebook or MySpace have just put themselves nearly 3000 miles closer to the key data centers where these platforms are running out of.
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		<title>Is Desktop Software Dead?</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/12/01/is-desktop-software-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/12/01/is-desktop-software-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inbox2 raindrop]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/?p=965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been a huge fan of desktop software. It allows developers to create a unique experience specifically tailored to a specific task. It promotes consistency within the OS, always knowing that the close window button is in the same location is a huge boon to usability. It&#8217;s generally faster and can work where your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Beta Testing Re-Tweet Interface</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/11/18/twitter-beta-testing-re-tweet-interface/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/11/18/twitter-beta-testing-re-tweet-interface/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[screenshot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/?p=955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ It seems Facebook is now showing re-tweets in a new way for some users, myself included. Instead of showing the person who re-tweeted, it&#8217;s now showing the original poster. Interesting way to give credit where credit is due.

This is the explanation.

And an example from my feed.

And a nice tabbed interface showing popular tweets and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP &amp; 64-bit Integer Modulus (Almost)</title>
		<link>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/10/28/php-64-bit-integer-modulus-almost/</link>
		<comments>http://af-design.com/blog/2009/10/28/php-64-bit-integer-modulus-almost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[64bit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[math modulus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://af-design.com/blog/?p=943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While at times PHP seems to be capable of 64 bit math, it&#8217;s important to understand what&#8217;s really going on. Beyond 32 bit integers, PHP is silently converting your integers to floats. While this usually isn&#8217;t a problem, many of the operations you might perform on an int, such as modulus choke when attempting to [...]]]></description>
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