chrislomax

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by chrislomax 14y ago
It's weird because when I compare the pricing of cloud compared to our current setup, the cloud always comes out cheaper. I think this is the main thing I am looking at currently. We pay around £1400 a month for our hosting at the minute. T
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by chrislomax 14y ago
Thanks, was looking for "programmer", "developer", "web developer". No go on all of them so I came back to the comments to see what everyone else had put!
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by chrislomax 14y ago
I think the first point is the most important, expect downtime. This is the one thing we have come to accept with hosts. For us now it is a case of how easy it is to keep those servers up if things do go wrong. If you can afford to have a f
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by chrislomax 14y ago
It's hard to get excited when there is no mention of how well it is supported in the UK. I don't know how well Siri will do in the UK with the updates and if we will get the map support for turn by turn. We still can't search for businesses
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by chrislomax 14y ago
A majority of our writes are product updates but they are done directly into azure from a local box. These can't be done from AWS as they go into gbs but that is the only situation we need worry about. If azure opened it's model up then we
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by chrislomax 14y ago
I thought this but after doing some tests the results are pretty negligible. A windows 2008 server license on 2 machines for fall back comes in at around £700 - £800 a month per instance. The same redundancy on Azure is around £80 - £100 a
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by chrislomax 14y ago
I'm really hoping they break out of that model. It's great if you want to run single apps on an instance but it falls down once you look at running a series of clients on the same instance. You need to do some hacking to get the IIS setup f
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by chrislomax 14y ago
Only a little thing, could do with maintaining query strings between pages. It lost my query string and returned no results when I changed the drop down without me noticing.
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by chrislomax 14y ago
It's not uncommon at our works when we ask a potential employee to come and work for us that they tell us they want to think it over to make sure it is what they want also. We endeavour to hire talented staff so it's only natural that they
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by chrislomax 14y ago
It is a great law if used properly. It does however stop my friend from selling beds and sofa's online from this shop because he is afraid of people taking advantage of this law. Large shops can swallow the cost but independent retailers su
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by chrislomax 14y ago
My boss uses a 17" mac for design purpose. I think anything less than 17" would be sub standard in his eyes. I'm sure a lot of other designers would see it the same way if I am honest
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by chrislomax 15y ago
I was actually really surprised when I discovered this when developing the bulk upload facility I did. It wasn't great when 9/10 computers in our office are Macs. Didn't make it worthwhile showing it off to people in our place! I'm sure the
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by chrislomax 15y ago
I presume your limitations are due to the drag drop file handling on the upload from computer? I did something recently like this and ended up with an ugly "Select file" button when people are in IE. I really hope IE are pulling their finge
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by chrislomax 15y ago
Two things here, 1) I buy things online simply because of the distance selling act. I have 7 days no questions asked returns policy. 2) Amazon customer service is awesome, I experienced this first hand at xmas when my little boys 3DS wasn'
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by chrislomax 15y ago
That really gets on my tits that, people buying a product and selling it for a much higher price. I'm all for supply and demand but £100 - £150 more than the retail price is pathetic! If they didn't want them in the first place they shouldn
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by chrislomax 15y ago
Dell quad core with SSD's, 8gb ram. I haven't had to format it yet, which is good for a laptop 9 month on! Very fast
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by chrislomax 15y ago
Emailed you Cheers Chris
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by chrislomax 15y ago
It's really hard to make the decision. We priced up co-lo at our local data centre and the costs are good and would save us money, it's just a massive headache. Network switches, redundant lines, internal vlans. They are all a pain in the a
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by chrislomax 15y ago
There are always cost considerations! We are on the brink of bringing on a very large UK retailer though, they receive around a million visits a day in sale time so we are prepared to put some good money into our setup but I am always makin
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by chrislomax 15y ago
Is Linode not just for Linux though?
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by chrislomax 15y ago
I don't see why pagination has to go away any time soon? I can't stand Facebook auto loading more content, I end up dragging too far when it has auto loaded and I have not noticed, I spend more time looking at the scroll bar than the conten
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by chrislomax 15y ago
Although you appear to have been marked down for this, I kind of agree. Not that Apple paid him of course but that there is no real news in this article? If any other person had written this (not mainstream), I would argue no one would read
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by chrislomax 15y ago
Perfect, I wasn't even aware there was a font for this purpose! I don't see the point in QR codes, I have never seen an every day use for them and it makes me slightly angry that they have been adopted so heavily. I do take into account peo
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by chrislomax 15y ago
Would a better idea not to have a font that was made for the purpose of scanning? That way, if people don't have smartphones then they know the url. Those who do have smartphones know what the url points to in case there is something dodgy
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by chrislomax 15y ago
This reminds me of the advert Google put out recently where it shows a father documenting his daughters life in YouTube, and sending her emails (from birth) with the videos on with a note of what it was all about in the email. She comes bac
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by chrislomax 15y ago
Now I am going to get killed for saying this but it's almost like you are referring to Microsoft Expression Web or something to that effect. When we were doing work in Silverlight (god rest its soul), there was the facility to have designer
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by chrislomax 15y ago
I think I know what they are trying to achieve, they are hoping to get the Apple simplicity, I think. I didn't think you were giving grief, sounded like constructive criticism, I don't mind that. I just don't like mindless comments that are
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by chrislomax 15y ago
In the nicest possible way, I'm actually bored of this metro look already and it's not even released yet. I find that logo boring, some squares with a warp on it. I know it doesn't have to be over complicated but I don't think there is any
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by chrislomax 15y ago
This is the first news story I have bookmarked, ever. Mainly because I got distracted and started reading Mashable. Jokes aside, I thought I had a form of ADHD with how much distractions distracted me. It's quite comforting to know other pe

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