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If you sell products or services that Tyner Blain readers would want, or have your own blog and want higher quality ads check this out. Tyner Blain has joined a new ad network that should help us provide better ads for our readers. We’re really excited about the network, as the features seem to very effectively address the goals of both advertisers and publishers (bloggers). Regular readers – feel free to skip this one, see you tomorrow at our regularly scheduled time.

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And this week, neither do we.
Have a great weekend, see y’all at our regularly scheduled time next week (every weeknight).
Scott

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Yesterday’s post contained a pretty significant mistake (aka “Big Fat Lie”).  I showed a diagram that was in violation of the BPMN specification for intermediate message events.
The post has been corrected, showing both the “bad” instructions, and the associated corrections.  The [...]

It just got easier to subscribe to Tyner Blain – by email!

We’ve added a page explaining subscription options, and updated our sidebar with the option to subscribe by email, thanks to our service provider, Feedblitz.

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PEBBAK* error!
Through a complete oversight / ommission / coma, the Non-Functional Requirements Equal Rights Amendment article was accidentally marked as private shortly after it was published. I was wondering why so many 404s happened when people tried to read it.
Well, its back now. [...]

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Laptop died last night.
Migrating to home pc.
Will be back next week.

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We’ve upgraded our theme!

The new look should provide much better support for users with larger monitors, while still supporting folks reading at 800×600 resolution.
We’ve added a calendar widget to make it easy to find the posts for a given date.
We have easier navigation from [...]

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Tyner Blain can now be viewed thru the Google Toolbar!
In the top of the sidebar (on the right) is a link to automatically add Tyner Blain to your Google Toolbar. As of today, it is only supported for IE users, but Google [...]

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Thanks to the folks who pointed out to me that the blog was down for almost 12 hours today.  The mysql database for our blog went down and it took a little while to get it operational again.  [...]

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I realized a few moments ago that I have been remiss in updating my little black book blogroll with some of the really good blogs that I read.
I thought I’d take a moment to shout out to them and thank them for some really great content [...]