http://yoelsommer.com The yoel sommer weblog Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:09:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just finished reading an article in this week Economist about the new craze in IT, Cloud Computing. This week Microsoft released a CTP version on Windows azure, a cloud based operating system. I first heard about the concept of cloud computing back in June when I was invited to ... http://yoelsommer.com/2008/11/02/cloud-computing/ I have to confess. As a normal geek, I buy a lot of stuff on the internet. As a good consumer I will research the product, look for the best price and once I am happy with what I found, I'll make the purchase. Usually, when I shop online I would ... http://yoelsommer.com/2008/03/24/shipping-could-we-make-it-a-little-more-effective/ I recently discovered the Jott website. Jott is a web application that allows you send email and create notes to yourself by using highly sophisticated voice recognition software. (It is able to decipher my accent with 90% accuracy). The website is still in beta, so all its features are for ... http://yoelsommer.com/2008/01/16/jotting-away/ The last year had its share of goals I accomplished both on the personal and on the business levels. One thing I dissapointed myself is with the amount of posts I published in my blog this year. It's not that I'm not aware how benficial is to write a blog ... http://yoelsommer.com/2008/01/01/blogging-2008/ While surfing the net, I came about this cool video by Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology of the Kansas State University. This video explains in very easy terms what is web 2.0? Enjoy... The video http://yoelsommer.com/2007/02/09/web-20/ After installing windows vista month (upgrade install) I encountered a weird problem with RDP. On some of sessions, the connection was very slow. The slow connection was not happening on a specific connection to a specific operating system, so I became really confused. After doing some research it seems that ... http://yoelsommer.com/2007/01/31/slow-remote-desktop-connection-in-specific-circumstances/ I spend a lot of time navigating between a dozen blogs and news websites. I tried a couple RSS applications but still they just display a short link and I have to go to the website itself. I recently discovered google labs' reader. I was very impressed. Basically, Google reader is ... http://yoelsommer.com/2007/01/04/google-reader/ 21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch Collecting Outlook 2007 Statistics Using VSTO 2005 SE - This is actually a very useful tool. Ultimate WordPress SEO Tips http://yoelsommer.com/2007/01/02/links-for-01-02-2007/ I moved my blog to a new server. yay! I must say that I am impressed about the capabilities of WordPress. Moving the blog was easier that I thought. The reason I moved my blog is that I feel that in 2006 I didn't pay to much attation to my blog ... http://yoelsommer.com/2007/01/01/blog-moved/ Recently, I encountered a situation in which I needed to retrieve formated currency values directly from my database. As rule of thumb, in 95% of all cases, the data should be retrieved as a raw number (with no formatting) and should be formated in the client application, but in this ... http://yoelsommer.com/2006/04/05/format-numeric-value-to-standard-currency-in-t-sql/