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FlexMonkey 1.0 GA and FoneMonkey Announcement

I have written about the FlexMonkey many times, I also wrote about the 1.0 beta announcement several months ago. Such long beta stage will certainly improve a quality of the final product. I think FlexMonkey 1.0 GA will be a excellent application which
 
Marcin Zręda
Mar 11 2010 11:06 AM
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CPU Performance Test Results: Flash Player vs. HTML5

If you've been hearing the noise about Flash Player and CPU utilization over the past couple weeks, you'll want to check out Jan Ozer's post on StreamingMedia.com: Flash Player: CPU Hog or Hot Tamale? It Depends. Instead of weighing in...
 
Michelle Perkins
Mar 11 2010 11:06 AM
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HP Elitebook 8440p – first impressions

As is tradition on this blog, I like to write about my first impressions with new hardware.  Yesterday at about 8am I received the HP Elitebook 8440p.  This machine is HP’s high end professional 14” laptop and I was eager to tear into it and
 
Keith Combs
Mar 11 2010 11:05 AM
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The ethics of aggregating other peoples' content

Content theft Most of the recent - what I'll call - "discussions" about content aggregators have revolved around content theft. I'm not going to flip-flop on that topic: when you use someone else's work, you ask first, and if given the okay, you
 
AaronBertrand
Mar 11 2010 11:02 AM
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SQL SERVER – Force Index Scan on Table – Use No Index to Retrieve the Data – Query Hint

Recently I received the following two questions from readers and both the questions have very similar answers. Question 1: I have a unique requirement where I do not want to use any index of the table; how can I achieve this? Question 2: Currently my
Mar 11 2010 11:02 AM
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Inspiration: Awesome Book-Related Website Designs

If you’re a book lover, you may have noticed that the vast majority of book-related websites out there leave a bit to be desired when it comes to design and information architecture. In fact, some author and publisher websites make me feel like my
 
Callum Chapman
Mar 11 2010 11:00 AM
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NorCal Weekly .Net is Up Now! Catch All for the .Net Events in Northern California!

  I’ve always wanted a place that I could look through to find what .net events are going on in Northern California.  I’ve found that there is a core group of people with common interested... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming.
tags: community
Mar 11 2010 10:35 AM
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Getting our Game On

I’m at the Game Developer Conference (GDC 2010) here in San Francisco most of the week. The conference has barely started and there’s already a ton of great buzz about gaming for Windows Phone 7 Series. A screenshot from the prototype 3D game “The
Mar 11 2010 10:05 AM
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Multiple Blog Support Now on Display at Sueetie.com

If I didn’t want to over-use the exclamation point I would have added it to the post title, cause this is pretty big. Sueetie now natively supports multiple blogs and all that that implies behind the scenes. We know Sueetie can support multiple blogs,
tags: sueetie
Mar 11 2010 09:26 AM
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XNA Game Studio on Windows Phone

I set out to write an article about the unique features of XNA Game Studio on Windows Phone 7 Series, but while trying to populate my outline, I realized, wow, there actually aren’t many things different about Game Studio 4.0 on the phone compared to
 
ShawnHargreaves
Mar 11 2010 08:59 AM
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Successful Legal Action Helps Protect Microsoft Customers from ‘Spim’

Posted by Tim Cranton Associate General Counsel As you may recall, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit last July  filed a lawsuit alleging that Funmobile Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company owned by brothers Christian and Henrick Heilesen, had
tags: privacy
Mar 11 2010 08:59 AM
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My PowerShell Deep Dive Talk Video

Paul Mooney attended my NYC Code Camp talk and was nice enough to record and post the session. Thanks Paul!
 
Doug Finke
Mar 11 2010 08:59 AM
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don’t worry, we’ll do that in post processing

For a few projects, I’ve been looking around on how to do some photoshop style effects and remembered Silverlight and WPF have shaders! My hunt both started and ended with Nokola’s Silverlight tool Easy Painter. Pastel, Old Photo (LOMO effect), and
 
Coding4Fun
Mar 11 2010 08:46 AM
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Embed Dynamic Bing Maps with Javascript

We were recently asked to add dynamic Bing maps into a website. "No problem" we said - having no clue of the heartache that lay ahead. After beating our head against the wall for a while we eventually figured out how to use javascript to
Mar 11 2010 07:33 AM
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Eleven Years of Erlang

I've written about how I started using Erlang. A good question is why, after eleven years, am I still using it? For the record, I do use other languages. I enjoy writing Python code, and I've taught other people how to use Python. This website is
Mar 11 2010 07:32 AM
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Users of Jackson, Unite!

I know this is something that users of Jackson JSON library must have been craving for longest time: their Very Own Social Network (no? you'd rather have handling of cyclic types? d'oh!)Wait no longer: enter jackson-users.ning.com. Place for developers
Mar 11 2010 07:30 AM
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Insert Tag Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer (that works with Windows 7)

The source code plugin that I use on my blog is great, but does require that I insert some escaped tags with special class names in the XHTML. For years I’ve used the InsertTagSnippet plugin by Coskun Sunali to help me write posts – but on Windows 7, it
 
Jeff Wilcox
Mar 11 2010 07:30 AM
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Split up your Web.config

Helpful Tip: After going through web.config hell, attempting to manage five different solutions and at least four different environments for each, I just about had it! I finally gave up and started doing some simple research. Did you can split up your
 
Andrew Kharlamov
Mar 11 2010 07:08 AM
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Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (a98f7a01-7fb3-45df-ab82-673a39c98119 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)

This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (59f721c7-6d8d-4e84-b647-a12b5083a4ec - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7) ©2010 Oleg Sych. All Rights Reserved..
 
Oleg Sych
Mar 11 2010 07:07 AM
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ASP.NET MVC And Convention Based Forms – Part 1

Series Index Part 1: Reusable controller actions & model inheritance Part 2: Custom meta data provider (coming soon) One of the great new features in ASP.NET MVC 2 is the template system. It is very similar to the template form helper system
 
Torkel Ödegaard
tags: c#
Mar 11 2010 07:07 AM
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Extending WikiPlex with Scope Augmenters

[In addition to blogging, I am also using Twitter. Follow me: @matthawley]   This post is long overdue, but as I'm preparing the v1.3 release of WikiPlex and working on documentation (yes, I did say documentation) I realized that another extension
Mar 11 2010 07:06 AM
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How You Can Easily Boost Your Web Site's Success - A Simple Step-by-Step Guide

How every web site owner can make their site more effective by applying the principles of simple web design explained in Ben Hunt's ebook
Mar 11 2010 07:05 AM
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How to upgrade your Blogger OpenID to a decent one

If you host your blog on Google’s Blogger service you may have discovered that your blog is an OpenID you can use to log into various web sites that act as OpenID relying parties. But Blogger’s support for OpenID is limited to OpenID 1.1, which is very
 
Andrew
tags: openid
Mar 11 2010 07:02 AM
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Posterous: Fast and Efficient Social Sharing

We are crawling the Internet all the time; monitoring the latest trends and technologies, seeking, discovering. If you're like me, during your web travels you often come across treasures you want to share. But sharing what you find can be time consuming
 
Pamela Poole
Mar 11 2010 06:47 AM
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All Scripts used in jQuery: Novice to Ninja are now FREE to download

For the first time we’re offering the entire code archive for free. Not just the code used in the sample chapters, all code used in the entire book! Related posts:SitePoint Podcast #50: jQuery: Novice to Ninja Kevin Yank is joined by is joined by Earle
 
ShayneTilley
tags: web tech
Mar 11 2010 06:46 AM
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Javascript: Function scoping

My colleague John Hume wrote an interesting post about his experience with the 'const' keyword in ActionScript where he describes the problems with trying to capture a loop variable in a closure and then evaluating it later on in the code. Since
 
Mark Needham
Mar 11 2010 06:46 AM
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To Die, Perchance To Cremate

In today’s number news (State-by-state cremation rates in U.S.), we learn that “slightly more than a third of all persons who died in 2006 were cremated, according to the Cremation Association of North America.” Happily, the article contained the raw
 
Steve
Mar 11 2010 06:45 AM
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The Foundation of an OSGi-Based Application: Design and Bundles

Learn how to lay the necessary groundwork for service-oriented, modular OSGi components in the Eclipse Equinox container.
Mar 11 2010 06:45 AM
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MSBuild 4.0 Reserved Properties

A while back I wrote about Reserved Properties in MSBuild 3.5, now its time to update that post to include reserved properties for MSBuild 4.0. There are a number of new properties here is the list: •    MSBuild •   
Mar 11 2010 06:45 AM
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HRNUG Windows 7 Development Links and Information

My thanks to all of the folks who came out for my presentation last night at the Hampton Roads .NET User Group, and especially to Kevin Griffin for his hard work in building and running the group! Last night I talked about developing for Windows 7,
 
gduthie
Mar 11 2010 06:44 AM
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IE zero-day flaw leaks out; Exploit code published

Using obvious clues from a McAfee blog post, an Israeli hacker was able to pinpoint the latest Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability and create working exploit code
 
Ryan Naraine
Mar 11 2010 06:44 AM
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Webmonkey Goes South, Then West, for SXSWi

We’re headed to Austin, Texas tomorrow along with the crew from Wired’s Underwire blog to attend South By Southwest Interactive. The week-long nerd fest starts Friday, and we’ll be reporting from the trenches. If you’re headed
 
Michael Calore
Mar 11 2010 06:44 AM
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Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra at Digg

The last six months have been exciting for Digg's engineering team. We're working on a soup-to-nuts rewrite. Not only are we rewriting all our application code, but we're also rolling out a new client and server architecture. And if that doesn't sound
 
John Quinn
Mar 11 2010 06:43 AM
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We moved your ASP.NET website cheese, in a good way

We've just pushed live an update to the http://www.asp.net site. This is the first of a series of updates to the site we'll be making this year. The home page for the site was getting bogged down with info and was too visually busy. It was too complex
tags: msdn
Mar 11 2010 06:43 AM
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SOLVED: Error 1 Ticks must be between DateTime.MinValue.Ticks and DateTime.MaxValue.Ticks

This is a simple looking error message that is deceptively hard to track down. Thankfully if you're having this problem then this article should get you back on track without spending hours scratching your head. Scenario It was time to update an existing
 
rtpHarry
tags: bugfix
Mar 11 2010 06:18 AM
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The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework at Mix

I’m excited to share with you that I’ll be talking about a new framework for web analytics in Silverlight at our Mix conference in Las Vegas next week.  Seven months ago I blogged about building a new analytics framework for Silverlight and now
 
Michael S. Scherotter
Mar 11 2010 06:17 AM