September 2009
94 posts
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Mapping DTDs to Databases →
A common question in the XML community is how to map XML to databases. This article discusses two mappings: a table-based mapping and an object-relational (object-based) mapping.
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64 high-ranked blogs for developers →
The following list contains personal blogs that have at least pagerank 6 and are written in English for developers.
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Turning the tide: a hands-on look at Google's Wave →
Ars takes you inside of Google’s bold vision for the future of Internet messaging with this hands-on look at Wave. Learn more about the experimental service, its underlying technology, and the opportunities that will provide for third-party developers.
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Weird, Rare Clouds and the Physics Behind Them →
“Over the years we’ve developed a good understanding of them,” Smith said. “It’s no longer a mystery, but still very spectacular.”
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Hooked on LINQ →
This website aims to be the premier community resource for LINQ (Language Integrated Query) for Microsoft®’s .NET
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European Union threatens to take iPhone off the... →
“I don’t need (Apple)’s permission to stop goods entering the market,”.
Ten IT Concepts That Non-IT People Don’t Get →
Since I “work with computers” I tend to get asked to do fair amount of unofficial technical support for family and neighbours. I’ve noticed that the same confusions about IT crop up again and again. Here’s my top ten.
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jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web →
jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user-interface components for today’s websites. This single JavaScript file weighs only 5.59 Kb
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Who Cares About ASP.NET MVC? →
As much as the .NET elite like to complain about ASP.NET Web Forms, the bottom line is that many Joe Six-pack corporate developers are very happy with it.
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Entity Framework 4.0 Resources →
This is my attempt to pull together all (ok – most) of the improvements in Entity Framework 4.0 and aggregate useful resources against each. It is very much work in progress – but is hopefully already fairly helpful.
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Less Wrong: Existential Angst Factory →
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your “passion” or your “bliss,” I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement.
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Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters →
It’s time for stylesheets to evolve so that we can take web design to the next level.
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Gamers are more aggressive to strangers →
Victorious gamers enjoy a surge of testosterone – but only if their vanquished foe is a stranger. When male gamers beat friends in a shoot-em-up video game, levels of the potent sex hormone plummeted.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Metallica (27)
KoЯn (6)
SOiL (4)
No Use for a Name (4)
All That Remains (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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pinvoke.net: the interop wiki! →
PInvoke.net is primarily a wiki, allowing developers to find, edit and add PInvoke* signatures, user-defined types, and any other information related to calling Win32 and other unmanaged APIs from managed code (written in languages such as C# or VB.NET).
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Brain Scans Reveal What You’ve Seen →
Scientists are one step closer to knowing what you’ve seen by reading your mind.
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The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia →
Deep in the bowels of the internet, I came across an exhaustive list of interesting Wikipedia articles by Ray Cadaster. It’s brilliant reading when you’re bored, so I got his permission to post the top 50 here.
A Note on Belief in Evolution.
thats just so true, although I tend to believe more in evolution as gods work as in god himself or the bible or jesus or christianity… does that sound evil? :D
thedailywhat:
Unlike religion or some intangible philosophy, evolution is not for you to “believe” or “disbelieve” in. The statement “I don’t believe in evolution” is an empty one as evolution, again, unlike religion, is not...
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WatchObscura CueLight
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10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines →
Here are 10 useful usability findings and guidelines that may help you improve the user experience on your websites.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Bad Religion (40)
Beatsteaks (27)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (26)
Beastie Boys (20)
Tenacious D (17)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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It's Official: Water Found on the Moon →
Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called “unambiguous evidence” of water across the surface of the moon.
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Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn... →
People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it.
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The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church... →
Anonymous vs. Scientology
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EasyHook →
This project supports extending (hooking) unmanaged code (APIs) with pure managed ones, from within a fully managed environment like C# using Windows 2000 SP4 and later, including Windows XP x64, Windows Vista x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64. Also 32- and 64-bit kernel mode hooking is supported as well as an unmanaged user-mode API which allows you to hook targets without requiring a NET Framework...
#dust storm →
topherchris:
This is insane.
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An Introduction to jQuery →
Rick Strahl has posted an excellent article that introduces jQuery, and walks-through how to take advantage of it within ASP.NET pages.
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PostBack Ritalin →
PostBack Ritalin is an ASP.NET AJAX server control to help simplify the common task of disabling buttons during partial postbacks.
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The 23 Gang of Four Design Patterns .. Revisited →
These 23 GoF patterns are generally considered the foundation for all other patterns. They are categorized in three groups: Creational, Structural, and Behavioral.
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Raphaël—JavaScript Library →
Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.
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Chronic Radiation Is Beneficial to Human Beings →
Dr. Luckey predicted in his paper at the 1999 American Nuclear Society annual meeting in Boston that if the American population received a supplemental radiation dose through the public health service of about 55 mSv, 49 % of the cancer deaths of the US population (about 200,000 Americans) could be prevented every year.
How Long to Form a Habit? →
Say you want to create a new habit, whether it’s taking more exercise, eating more healthily or writing a blog post every day, how often does it need to be performed before it no longer requires Herculean self-control?
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Japan Wants to Power 300,000 Homes With Wireless... →
Japan has serious plans to send a solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam a gigawatt-strong stream of power down to earth and power nearly 300,000 homes.
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EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing →
EtherPad is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time.
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Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this. →
Ok so what exactly Google Wave is can be confusing, because there are three parts: the protocol, the server, and the client. A lot of people are really going to miss the boat here if they don’t keep the distinction between the three in mind, because I see a lot of people focusing on the wrong parts.
The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer →
oh so true…
(via pirat)
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JSNES: A Javascript NES emulator →
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patterns & practices Guidance Explorer →
patterns & practices Guidance Explorer is a tool that enables discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance. Guidance Explorer installs with a connection to the patterns & practices guidance library including performance and security topics for .NET, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET applications. The guidance library contains a variety of guidance types including...
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Enabling Windows Authentication within an Intranet... →
You are building an Intranet web application for your organization, and you want to authenticate the users visiting your site. Specifically, you want to ensure that they are logged in using a valid Windows account on the network, and you want to be able to retrieve each incoming user’s Windows account name and Windows group membership within your application code on the server.
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Open Source URL Rewriter for .NET / IIS / ASP.NET →
UrlRewriter.NET provides similar IIS Rewrite capabilities that the Apache web server provides with mod_rewrite and .htaccess. You don’t need to install an ISAPI Rewrite filter to use the component.
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Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications →
ASP.NET 4 ships with a new feature called “auto-start” that better addresses this scenario, and is available when ASP.NET 4 runs on IIS 7.5 (which ships with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2). The auto-start feature provides a controlled approach for starting up an application worker process, initializing an ASP.NET application, and then accepting HTTP requests.
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Scientists Build Anti-Mosquito Laser →
In an effort to prevent the spread of malaria, scientists have built a laser that shoots and kills mosquitoes.