January 2010
19 posts
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C# on iPad →
MonoTouch v1.9 has been released with iPad support.
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Slowdown in Warming Tied to Less Water Vapor →
Climatologists have puzzled over why global average temperatures have stayed roughly flat in the past decade, despite a long-term warming trend. New research suggests that lower levels of water vapor in the stratosphere may partly explain the anomaly.
Nooooooooooooooo! →
PRESS IN DIRE SITUATIONS!
via (thedailywhat)
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C++: A language for next generation web apps →
Not only is C++ inherently fast. It also forces you to think differently. It discourages the use of overly complicated data structures that are built in to other languages. In C++, nesting more than one or two structures results in something that is simply too awkward to use. Instead, the you are forced to seriously consider using the simplest possible representation.
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Evolutionary Psychology, Sort Of →
People seem to need an overarching explanation of things—of origins, meaning, purpose, and destiny. Christianity provided these things for a long time but, at the close of the Enlightenment, was losing its luster among the educated. Too much in Christianity just didn’t make sense in light of continuing discoveries. The sciences were more compelling, and a better fit ...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Peter Fox (13)
Metallica (10)
Skindred (7)
Michael Jackson (6)
Rammstein (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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devcheatsheet.com - Cheat Sheets for Developers. →
Cheatsheet aggregator/directory from cheatsheets around the web
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jQuery Project →
The jQuery Project manages all of the jQuery projects, including jQuery Core, jQuery UI, Sizzle and QUnit.
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...”
– Jessica Hische / Humble Pied.
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The Internet is about to get a lot safer →
DNSSEC stands for Domain Name System Security Extensions, and just as its name implies, it adds a layer of security on top of the otherwise unsecure DNS. DNSSEC protects the integrity of DNS data and makes sure that it comes from a verified source.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Peter Fox (29)
Jan Delay (4)
Eminem (3)
Placebo (3)
Thrice (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The #1 Javascript Pop Up / Lightbox →
TopUp is an easy to use Javascript library for unobtrusively displaying images and webpages in a Web 2.0 approach of popups. The library is jQuery and jQuery UI driven in order to maintain cross-browser compatibility and compactness.
"Doomsday Clock" moves one minute away from... →
Encouraging Progress Seen Around Globe in Both Key Threat Areas: Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Seeed (11)
The Prodigy (9)
Jan Delay (9)
System of a Down (7)
The Chemical Brothers (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Execution Plan Basics →
Execution plans can tell you how a query will be executed, or how a query was executed. They are, therefore, the DBA’s primary means of troubleshooting a poorly performing query.
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Top 10 steps to optimize data access in SQL Server →
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About 8 percent of human genetic material comes... →
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The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table. What it is and... →
There are dozens of things we can do in SQL that require some type of iteration. “Iteration” means “counters” and “loops” to most people and recursion to others. To those well familiar in the techniques of “Set-based” programming, it means a “Numbers” or “Tally” table, instead.