From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Microsoft and Yahoo: did anyone actually see it coming?

by Shane Perris on Wednesday, 6 February, 2008

in opinions

It’s interesting that for years there have been rumours that Microsoft and Yahoo were destined for some sort of arrangement, whether it be a formal partnership, merger or good ol’ fashioned buy out.  The first link goes back to 2006 and I vaguely recall rumours in 2005, but my Google-fu is letting me down at [...]

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The month that was: let’s go shopping!

by Shane Perris on Monday, 4 February, 2008

in news

The post-Christmas sales are always an excellent place to pick up a bargain to two.  A sneak peak into the Backpack pages of some of tech’s leading lights yielded some surprising results…
 

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/01/wow-microsoft-offers-446-billion-to-acquire-yahoo/
 

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1102509
 

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/sun_acquires_mysql.html

Local Development

by Shane Perris on Friday, 1 February, 2008

in how-to

“Local development” – the practice of hosting a copy of your blog on your local machine (desktop or laptop) for the purposes of testing changes to your blog.
Having a blog can be an exciting experience. Blogging virgins often choose to have their blog hosted by someone else (eg Blogger, Wordpress.com, Livejournal, Typepad to name [...]

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