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I've developed some pretty nifty software for a client (using php/mysql), and the client now wants to re-sell it to other businesses. I've got no qualms about this, but we're wondering about the best ...

One of the most useful features in Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) product is its reporting engine. Even though there is nothing overly difficult about its installation process, ...

So I was looking at doing some development for WP7 and was shocked (shocked I tell ya) to discover that WP7 has only XML as a persistent storage system. Frankly this seems like a massive backwards ...