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"My favorite metaphor for the current world transition, first pointed out to me by Norie Huddle (Butterfly, 1990), is that of a butterfly in metamorphosis. It goes like this: A caterpillar crunches its way through its ecosystem, cutting a swath of destruction by eating as much as hundreds of times its weight in a day, until it is too bloated to continue and hangs itself up, its skin then hardening into a chrysalis. Inside this chrysalis, deep in the caterpillar's body, tiny things biologists call 'imaginal disks' begin to form. Not recognizing the newcomers, the caterpillar's immune system snuffs them as they arise. But they keep coming faster and faster, then linking up with each other. Eventually the caterpillar's immune system fails from the stress and the disks become imaginal cells that build the butterfly by feeding on the soupy meltdown of the caterpillar's body. It took a long time for biologists to understand the reason for the immune system attack on the incipient butterfly cells, but eventually they discovered that the butterfly has its own unique genome, carried by the caterpillar, inherited from long ago in evolution, yet not part of it as such (Margulis & Sagan, Acquiring Genomes 2002). If we see ourselves as imaginal discs working to build the butterfly of a better world, we will understand that we are launching a new 'genome' of values and practices to replace that of the current unsustainable system. We will also see how important it is to link with each other in the effort, to recognize how many different kinds of imaginal cells it will take to build a butterfly with all its capabilities and colors."

Many a times we are met with the dilemma of choosing the right gift for occasions of the special people of our lives! Here we shall talk about a few points which shall make it clear on why you can never go wrong with a flower bouquet!

Today we are living in a world where everything is smart like Smartphones, Smart TV, Smart watches, Smart cars etc. Our out of the box thinking enable us to think beyond the imagination and that is the only reason today we have invented all those things which were supposed to be impossible in the earlier days. Moving ahead, Internet of things is the latest buzz in the world of technology these days. The most important fact is that it has potential to impact how we live and also how we work.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) have already stepped into the NoSQL database domain and competing with MongoDB by adding JSON documents support to DynamoDB.

There are many ways that people can save time and money, but saving money can be a very hard thing to do when you do not have much to begin with. It can seem like a hard task when you think that there is actually no cash to be saved. The good news is that you can find ways to save money here and there and put all of the cash that you saved away for whatever reason that you like. Apply now

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Cloud technology is the modern metaphor for the Internet. Almost everywhere the term cloud computing is heard about, which deals with storing and accessing

"Essentially, a widget is a local HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application. A mobile phone user downloads a widget once, and from that moment on he has a web application stored locally on his mobile phone. Although currently widgets are mostly used for relatively limited functions such as clocks, RSS readers, or Twitter or Flickr clients, as well as for games, there's no theoretical reason why they couldn't contain a complete, complicated, JavaScript-heavy web application; for instance a mobile-optimised spreadsheet application."

This is the first thing everyone should look for. I can give you a list of 100s of hosting providers who claim (and not guarantee) 99.9% uptime. On the front page the write "assured 99.9% uptime" but if you read TOS, they don't guarantee it, and there lies the catch. Fore my detailed review, I monitored each of the service using online uptime monitoring service Monitor: HostTracker, averaged over 4-6 months. BlueHost: They used to be great until last year, when they didn't have enough customers, all squeezed into the same servers. If you look into their reviews till last year, they look awesome. Reason is clear, they were good at that time, they were not that greedy. Due to the greed that they have been possessing over last year,  they suck on quality. Practically, I have attained practical uptime of 97.21% (This means 15 hours downtime monthly) and if you get frequent account suspensions (discussed later) downtime increases further. DreamHost: They seem to follow a similar trend with BlueHost, continue to fall in quality. The uptime I was able to attain  was 98.59% HostGator: Like others, they are also getting bigger, squeezing more people but still they seem to have quality as they are the ONLY Web hosting providers that ACTUALLY GUARANTEE 99.9% uptime. Woohoo, this forced me to try their service. And trust me, I actually achieved a figure very close to it. My averaged score over 6 months was 99.84 %. This is brilliant. (during October, I even got 99.99%)

WebORB for PHP is a robust FREE and OPEN SOURCE multi-protocol development and runtime environment that is designed to effortlessly connect Flex, Flash, AJAX and Silverlight clients with PHP classes and data from relational databases via PHP backend. WebORB for PHP The goal of WebORB for PHP is to enable a new generation of web applications with enhanced UI capabilities, robust client-server communication, streamlined data synchronization, transaction services support and real-time messaging, all at a reasonable cost that delivers fast time to market.

You know you can be better. We all can. It's the reason productivity and personal development has made such a surge in recent years. The time of freelancers, writers, designers and other web workers has exploded, and the need for tools and methods to make them more productive has aligned naturally with that explosion.

A short piece by Mike Butcher on why he thinks Facebook's new ability to share status updates will not affect Twitter.

Brett Favre swears this is the real deal - no more last-minute comebacks.The 39-year-old quarterback retired again Wednesday and insisted he won't look back. Well, at least for now."I have no reason to wonder why you would be so skeptical," Favre said Wednesday

nice article on Google Docs ;)

Back in February, I reviewed the first half of Shawn M. Lauriat's "Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices" (Prentice Hall, 2008, 360p). The first four chapters of Lauriat's book, which focused almost exclusively on client-side technologies, impressed me considerably. But it's taken me several weeks to get through the remainder of the book, and there's one reason why: PHP.

Git is a decentralized version control system created by Linus Torvalds that is used by a number of open source projects, most notably perhaps the Linux kernel. GitHub is a new hosted Git repository service that's being called a "social network" for programmers and with good reason. It also already has some high profile projects of its own on board: Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, Merb, Prototype and Scriptaculous, among others. "[GitHub is] the way SourceForge should have been," gushed one beta tester.

Slow computers can hamper your work efficiency to a great extent. There can be several reasons for it including malware attack, accumulation of Internet cookies or temporary files, or a faulty hard disk. At such an hour, whom should you trust? Well! Now, there is online computer support to protect your work interests. The technicians offering such services can tackle your system and security requirements effectively.

You will probably find an increasing number of businesses putting their brand presence in social media sites. Several big brands (and also small brands) are using Twitter and Facebook to build relationships with their fan base. Conversely, there are also many businesses who are (very) skeptical about this whole idea. Are you that stubborn businessman who is unwilling to try new social media tools? If you are, you will most probably agree with the points below but look out for the counter-arguments!

"I'm ordinary and only reason from the city (....)"

This tool helps you to calculate an individual grid layout for your Blueprint-based web site or web application. Being a static grid framework you usually start with defining the total with of your grid and then seperate your workspace into columns. By default Blueprint comes with a 950px grid, which is devided into 24 columns. However, often this configuration is not sufficient to create the kind of layout you have in mind. On the web I found a Blueprint CSS generator, which actually worked pretty nice but lacked the functionality to preview the grid and to compare different grid configuration. As I was tired of the guesswork required to calculate a reasonable grid, I created this little tool to calculate and compare different grid configurations.