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Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage where data is stored on virtualized pools of storage which are generally hosted by third parties, which can be obtained via  free cloud storage providers . Hosting companies operate large data centers; and people who require their data to be hosted buy or lease storage capacity from them and use it for their storage needs. The data center operators, in the background, virtualize the resources according to the requirements of the customer and expose them as storage pools, which the customers can themselves use to store files or data objects. Physically, the resource may span across multiple servers.

Cloud storage services may be accessed through a web service application programming interface (API), or through a Web-based user interface.

Cloud storage advantages

• Companies need only pay for the storage they actually use as it is also possible for companies by utilizing actual virtual storage features like thin provisioning.
• Companies do not need to install physical storage devices in their own datacenter or offices, but the fact that storage has to be placed anywhere stays the same (maybe localization costs are lower in offshore locations).
• Storage maintenance tasks, such as backup, data replication, and purchasing additional storage devices are offloaded to the responsibility of a service provider, allowing organizations to focus on their core business, but the fact stays the same that someone has to pay for the administrative effort for this tasks 
• Cloud storage provides users with immediate access to a broad range of resources and applications hosted in the infrastructure of another organization via a web service interface.

Potential concerns

• Security of stored data and data in transit may be a concern when storing sensitive data at a cloud storage provider
• Performance may be lower than local storage depending on how much a customer is willing to spend for WAN bandwidth
• Reliability and availability depends on wide area network availability and on the level of precautions taken by the service provider.
• Users with specific records-keeping requirements, such as public agencies that must retain electronic records according to statute, may encounter complications with using cloud computing and storage.

What are some features you would look for from free cloud storage providers

I will continue showcasing some fantastic English Premier teams over the coming weeks with a tribute to some fantastic digital art. This weeks feature is Stoke City Football Club. Stoke has had a fantastic start to the 2011 campaign taking a 8 out of a possible 12 points, and good enough for a top 4 position. Can they maintain this form or will will we expect them to drop as the season progresses?

Stoke City Football Club

Stoke City Football Club

Stoke City Football Club

Britannia stadium

Jermaine Pennant

Stoke Goal Celebration

Stoke City Football Club

Jonathan Walters

Stoke City Football Club

Stoke City Football Club

This article originally appeared in issue 205 of .net magazine – the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers.

Managing people following you and ones that you are following is becoming more combustion and tedious but there are loads of tools which will help to give you a helping hand. These 30 twitter tools will definitely solve your problem.

Some of the features of these tools includes schedule future post, unfollow those who are not following you, search people within your niche, use more than one twitter account at the same time and many more.

If you want to keep yourself update with more twitter or web design related articles do not forget to follow use on twitter (@thomascraig).

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I will start posting some of these little snippets of code so hopefully they will be helpful to some new developers and to also get feedback and alternate solutions from more advanced developers, as this is an ever changing environment and I am always interested in various methods of performing tasks.

The follow snippet was a quick little test done at the office, when asked from a new team member about doing queries (this developer is from a .Net background and is still getting his feet wet in CF).  The question/problem was that we were trying to solve was that of reducing the trips to the SQL server via processing and queries, immediately I thought of querying the original query, thus leading to the snippet below.

The <cfscript> is just calling a coldfusion component that has two functions: the first function performs that first trip to the SQL server and returns the resultset, which is show with the getData() function.  The next task (scenario) was to pass in each letter of the alphabet to query each letter (an A-Z index),  so instead of plaguing our code with <cfif> statements or using a <cfswitch> we wanted to compress the code as much as possible thus the loop.

In the second function call getSomeData() we are passing in our resultset from our first query along with the lowercase alpha value to perform a query of queries.  The NumberOfRecords is just a variable returned from performing a count on the ID’s in the second function to output our recordcount.  Again this was done quickly at the end of the day and I’ll likely update this post as the tasks become more complete.

Your component will consist of the following, we called it qry.cfc

<cfcomponent>
  <cffunction name="getData" output="No" returntype="query">
    <cfset var qry1="">
    <cfquery datasource="#data#" name="qry1">
       SELECT *
       FROM content
    </cfquery>
    <cfreturn qry1>
  </cffunction>

  <cffunction name="getSomeData" output="No" returntype="query">
    <cfargument name="qryObj" type="query" required="true" />
    <cfargument name="qryParam" type="string" required="true" />

    <cfquery  dbtype="query" name="qry2">
      SELECT COUNT(location) AS NumberOfRecords
      FROM arguments.qryObj
      WHERE location LIKE ('#arguments.qryParam#%')
    </cfquery>

    <cfreturn qry2 />
   </cffunction>

 </cfcomponent>

The code below will be your index.cfm file.

<cfscript>
  qryObj=createObject("component","qry");
  qry1=qryObj.getData();
</cfscript>

<cfloop index="intLetter" from="#Asc('A')#" to="#Asc('Z')#" step="1">
  <cfset strLetter = lcase(Chr( intLetter )) />
  <cfset qryResult = qryObj.getSomeData(qry1,"#strLetter#") />
  <cfoutput>
  <p>Queried leeter: #lcase(Chr( intLetter ))#
  Recordcount: #qryResult.NumberOfRecords#</p>
  </cfoutput>
</cfloop>

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I will start showcasing some fantastic English Premier teams over the coming weeks with a tribute to some fantastic digital art. This weeks feature is Liverpool Football Club based out of Liverpool, England. LFC have been a dominate force in the EPL since the beginning and will begin a new journey with the recent departure of their star striker Fernando Torres to Chelsea, can they continue to challenge for a the title? Only time will tell.

Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool Football Club – Celebration

Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool Football Club – Celebration

Liverpool Football Club – Celebration

Liverpool Football Club – Steven Gerrard

Liverpool Football Club – Dani Agger

Liverpool Football Club – David Ngog

Liverpool Football Club – Dirk Kuyt

Liverpool Football Club – Maxi Rodriguez

Liverpool Football Club – Pepe Reina

Liverpool Football Club – Pepe Reina

Liverpool Football Club – Raul Meireles

Nature photography refers to a wide range of photography taken outdoors and devoted to displaying natural elements such as landscapes, wildlife, plants, and close-ups of natural scenes and textures. Nature photography tends to put a stronger emphasis on the aesthetic value of the photo than other photography genres, such as photojournalism and documentary photography.

White night

China – li river Guangxi

Rain Forest Tropic

Brooks Range – Alaska

Eagle Creek and Emerald Bay at Sunrise Lake Tahoe California

Morning dew

Annapurna – Nepal

Powerful waterfall

Tiered Waterfall

Rainy Fall

African Land Scape

Forest Fire the Morning After

The success of any project or application come down the planning and communication amongst the development and marketing teams. This is where the wireframing process can benefit any development firm; by offering: an efficient visual plan that allows a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically consists of basic elements such as: header, footer, sidebar, maybe even some generated content, which gives your project team, your clients and colleagues a simple visually oriented layout that illustrates what the planned structure of the website will be by the end of the project and that serves as the foundation for any future modifications.

This article focuses on actual wireframing tools and standalone applications, as well as resources that you’ll need to build your own wireframe: wireframing kits, browser windows, form elements, grids, Mac OS X elements, mobile elements, which you’ll use in any typical graphics editor such as Photoshop or Illustrator. …Or you could use pen and paper.

Complete Wireframing Toolkits

Quommunnication Stencil Kit1

Facebook Applications Stencil Kit

Yahoo! Design Stencils – Design Pattern Library

Free Sketching & Wireframing Kit

Web Page Elements

Web Browser Templates

Photoshop Browser Templates – Web Designer Toolkit

Browser Templates for the Website

Browser Screens and Website Elements

Web Form Elements

Best Practice UX Forms Stencil

Photoshop Form Element Templates

Browser Form Elements PSD

Grid Templates

960px Photoshop Grid Template

Photoshop Template for Blueprint CSS Comps

Optional Wireframe Extras

Standard Web Banners

Wireframe Icons, Royalty-Free EPS and PNG

Printable Sketching Paper

A4 and A3 Sketching Grid Paper

Print and Sketch Wireframe Template