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		<title>Microsoft Azure for Dummies &#8211; or for Smarties?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is Microsoft Azure?  Here's a clear explanation of this new cloud computing product and how it compares to Amazon and Google.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2010/03/05/microsoft-azure-for-dummies-or-for-smarties/</link>
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		<title>A Case For Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After speaking with Luke Kanies at OpsCamp, and reading his good and oft-quoted article "Golden Image or Foil Ball?", I was thinking pretty hard about the use of images in our new automated infrastructure.  He's pretty against them.  After careful consideration, however, I think judicious use of images is the right thing to do.
My top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2010/02/24/a-case-for-images/</link>
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		<title>A XSS Vulnerability in Almost Every PHP Form I&#8217;ve Ever Written</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've spent a lot of time over the past few months writing an enterprise application in PHP.  Despite what some people may say, I believe that PHP is as secure or insecure as the developer who is writing the code.  Anyway, I'm at the point in my development lifecycle where I decided that it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2010/02/23/a-xss-vulnerability-in-almost-every-php-form-ive-ever-written/</link>
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		<title>Agile Operations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's funny.  When we recently started working on an upgrade of our Intranet social media platform, and we were trying to figure out how to meld the infrastructure-change-heavy operation with the need for devs, designers, and testers to be able to start working on the system before "three months from now," we broached the idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2010/02/17/agile-operations/</link>
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		<title>Enterprise Systems vs. Agility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently reading a good Cameron Purdy post where he talks about his eight theses regarding why startups or students can pull stuff off that large enterprise IT shops can't.
My summary/trenchant restatement of his points:

Changing existing systems is harder than making a custom-built new one (version 2 is harder)
IT veterans overcomplicate new systems
The complexity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2010/02/09/enterprise-systems-vs-agility/</link>
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		<title>OpsCamp Debrief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to OpsCamp this last weekend here in Austin, a get-togther for Web operations folks specifically focusing on the cloud, and it was a great time!  Here's my after action report.
The event invite said it was in the Spider House, a cool local coffee bar/normal bar.  I hadn't been there before, but other people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2010/02/05/opscamp-debrief/</link>
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		<title>Come To OpsCamp!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next weekend, Jan 30 2009, there's a Web Ops get-together here in Austin called OpsCamp!  It'll be a Web ops "unconference" with a cloud focus.  Right up our alley!  We hope to see you there.
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		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2010/01/25/come-to-opscamp/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Smart &amp; Gets Things Done, by Joel Spolsky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joel Spolsky is a bit of an internet cause célèbre, the founder of Fog Creek Software and writer of joelonsoftware.com, an influential programming Web site.
The book is about technical recruiting and retention, and even though it’s a small format under 200 page book, it covers a lot of different topics.  His focus is on hiring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2010/01/14/book-review-smart-gets-things-done-by-joel-spolsky/</link>
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		<title>Stupid Unix Trick &#8211; Command Mashups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been a *nix Administrator in some form or fashion for about 10 years now.  I remember back when I was first learning commands and how the OS works and every once in a while I'd come across something stupidly simple yet extremely useful to put in my bag of tricks.  Yesterday I was reminded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2010/01/08/stupid-unix-trick-command-mashups/</link>
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		<title>Techniques in Attacking and Defending XML/Web Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This presentation was by Jason Macy and Mamoon Yunus of Crosscheck Networks - Forum Systems.  It wins the award (the one I just made up) for being the most vendor-oriented presentation at the conference.  Not that it wasn't an interesting presentation, but their solution to defend against most of the attacks was "Use an XML [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.webadminblog.com/index.php/2009/11/13/techniques-in-attacking-and-defending-xmlweb-services/</link>
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