Backing up and restoring the datastore in your local SDK can be very useful for several use cases. Personally, I find that I alternate between running the local SDK with a restore of data from the deployment environment and with an empty or test datastore.

The local SDK slows down painfully when you populate it with real amounts of data so sometimes I test with an empty datastore while developing. Restoring data, however, takes a long time too so I don't want to run my restore process all the time. And I don't have to, since I can simply backup the local datastore and restore is by copying it back.

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Comtaste are offering a unique series of training courses in London called Meet the Guru, covering ActionScript 3, Flex 3, and Adobe AIR.

The courses are:

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Just got the weirdest 404 page on Apple.com (see the screenshot, below), displaying the BBC News and BBC Sport logos and links to the BBC homepages when I tried to access http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/

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Ah, how late can I be in pimping my SXSW session proposal? How about blogging it on the last day?

Guys and gals, I need your help: I've proposed a session for SXSW called Building on a Cloud and it would really help if you could take a moment to vote for it!

Thank you all in advance! :)

A quick heads up: early bird pricing for the Singularity Web Conference ends August 31, 2008. Get your tickets for just $99 today.

We've been adding new speakers and sessions and confirming local conference hubs.

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