Archive for August, 2010

Distributed VS Server Based Version Control Systems

This video will discuss the differences and advantages of using a distributed version control system, like Git, compared to a server based version control system, like SubVersion or SourceSafe.

This video was originally produced for my clients who tend to be small organizations, but the video discusses large project implementations as well.

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The Google Appliance and Forms Authentication

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I’ve been working with a client to implement the Google Appliance on one of their sites that has forms authentication enabled.

For those of you who aren’t aware, Google provides a box that you can install to index your own site using essentially the same logic that Google uses to index the Internet.  The advantage is that you have a lot more control over what gets indexed and when it gets indexed than if you just use what Google provides from its public index of the Internet.

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