As a sales guy for Spry, I see almost every new order that comes through our system. It’s my job to catch the fraudulent orders and make sure they don’t get activated and that the actual cardholder gets his or her money back. I sometimes feel like somewhat of a superhero; sticking it to the [...]

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Like all consumers, I love to find a great deal on something I want. And like most consumers, I research the object of my desire before I buy. I research everything; from shoes to cars, motherboards to airline tickets. I even research things like potential neighborhoods that I may move into (everyone should do this, [...]

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My name is Brian Winkle and I am the office manager for Spry. I came on board back in April. I found the job on craigslist. What caught my eye was the location of the office, it said exit 7-405, the same exit I live off. I had no idea there was [...]

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The Evolution of Web Services
Remember the dot-com days of the Internet?
Ah, the heady days of Altavista and Netscape, of <blink> tags and home-pages, when the Internet was a way to bridge the gap between your employees and your customers… The Information Superhighway exploded at the seams with sites dedicated to everything from kids and cats [...]

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Like it or love it, Google remains the dominant force in SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages). Ignoring it could result in lowered rankings and lower visits to your sites.
It is well worth investigating Google’s webmaster tools pages for a great resource in helping to optimise your sites - or SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) as it [...]

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Well, Debian turned 14 on the 16th of August.
That takes some thinking about. Although the number of Linux users has increased greatly in the past few years, it’s easy to forget how old the technology actually is (in relative terms). The Linux kernel we so love was Linus Torvald’s brainchild and has it’s own birthday [...]

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Ruby on Rails is becoming more and more popular and whilst it remain a very powerful tool in any web developer’s arsenal it is still a young framework.
Rails v 2.0 will be a milestone release not only due to a great many enhancements but due to a change in the default behaviour of the [...]

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Six Apart’s Movable Type blogging software got updated to it’s 4.0 final status today. The new release no doubt comes under pressure from the success that WordPress has had as open source software. You can read more about MovableType’s transition to opensource here.

Mt 4 boasts over 50 new features, including a new plugin system, a [...]

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There are plenty of reasons why you would want to setup an online storage solution. Whether you need to have your files accessible from anywhere, or want to share them with your friends, or to distribute your software, you will need to evaluate the many different technologies available and find the one that fits your [...]

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I’m Tres Wong-Godfrey, one of the SysOps guys here at Spry. Over the next few weeks I’ll be writing about VPS hosting and why — no matter how big your business gets — it is an excellent choice for business hosting. In this first look at VPS hosting I’ll take a look at how [...]

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