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
Mar 11 2010 06:45 AM

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
Some time ago,
a customer asked this curious question (paraphrased, as always): Hi,
we have a program that was originally designed for Windows XP
and Windows Server 2003,
but we found that it runs into difficulties on Windows Vista.
We've
In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll learn how to create a stylish and sleek-looking play station portable. This is very detailed, but advanced tutorial, so if you have basic knowledge and understanding about Photoshop you should be able to easily keep up
The beauty of the Google Chrome Extension gallery is that it is virtually uninhibited by any sort of approval process. This allows tons of extensions to be uploaded into the wild in real time. Every couple weeks, I go through and find the best and/or the
Tumblr’s popularity over the last year has increased exponentially. The reason why is quite simple: Tumblr is flexible, powerful, and, most importantly, a pleasure to work with. Unfortunately, there aren’t many training resources available
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
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
The role and purpose of icons is user interaction is very important these days. Icons can enhance the user experience and user friendly icons are really appreciative but they should be unique and easy to understand. There are so many icon websites
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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
Roughly 3-4% of our readers view this site via a mobile device and that percentage is growing slowly week-to-week. They aren't great percentages but it was certainly high enough to prompt me into action - I started considering a mobile version of this
Depending on a single security applications to provide broad scale protection, is an absolute “non-starter”. A single security applications does not, and never has had the ability to do this, despite the commonly help belief to the contrary.
Part of the
The Ext JS team have announced the 3.2 beta which includes new components and goodness.
Take the animated DataView transitions for example: On top of that, the release includes: Multiple sorting and filtering on Ext.data.Store Composite Fields Slider
With the Spock Framework 0.4 release around the corner, I thought it was time to demonstrate some of the upcoming new features (which are already available in recent snapshots). So here comes the first episode in the mini-series “What’s New
Posters are an incredibly common form of advertising. Whether they giant posters mounted to the side of a bus stop, or just a paper flyer tacked to a telephone pole, posters are designed to grab the viewers attention and invite them to take some action,
Microsoft are reporting high Windows 7 sales since the OS was launched in 2009. Craig examines how the figures compare to Vista and whether Windows 7 has really been the success Microsoft needed. Related posts:How to Enable Windows 7 GodMode "GodMode" is
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
Apart from the wonderful scottish accent there was one train of thought that particularly caught my interest in SE-Radio Episode 156: Kanban with David Anderson: Estimation is a choice! Estimates lead to commitments that drive a dysfunction, that is
If there’s one thing out there I can guarantee our readers will love, it’s this.
We have teamed up with Kevin and Joey from The Black Axe to bring you ShirtMockup.com – a powerful new web app that’s so simple, you’ll wonder why it never
I just finished doing some talks on geo hacking (slides are available here) and how to use some of the Geo technologies Yahoo and Google provide as part of a University gig in Atlanta. As a lot of the students liked the idea of APIs like GeoPlanet and
When you delete data or format a drive you assume the files, pictures, email or documents no longer exist on your computer. But your private data still exists, and it only takes basic knowledge of PCs to find it. For total security, you need Iolo
Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list goes on. So, limiting the number of forms in your mobile applications and
Normally we cannot use keywords in Java or Groovy to use as method names. But in Groovy we can. We need to enclose the keyword between single or double quotes as we define the method. In the following example we create a method with the name switch,
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual
In my previous post I discussed creating the database and tables for the Silverlight HVP configuration data. All that was great, and worked just dandy until it was time to get the data from the database server to the application running on the
In the penultimate post on the series color in design, Jennifer looks at black. Related posts:Color In Design: Yellow Continuing the series of Color In Design, Jennifer looks at...Principles of Design: Color In the final part of her series on design
Meetings are like bad blocking queries - they tie up precious resources and stop other people from getting work done. Today, let's talk about how to optimize both of 'em by doing homework ahead of time and minimizing the number of objects in the
One of the Android phone feature that is lacking is a shortcut on the phone for a screen capture or snapshot.
The only way to do it at the moment is using the Dalvik Debug Monitor that comes with the Android SDK.
To make a screen capture of your Nexus
As part of the performance work I am doing for Uber Prof, I fixed a couple of issues related to profiling very busy applications. Here is the result on processing a 4GB input file. I can’t say that the profiler is happy about it, but it works.
Sunday I leave to Vegas to attend my first MIX. It’s exciting to finally attend this event that has such an air of mystique around it. I’ll be speaking on how you can use MEF in SL4 to partition your applications across many XAPs in a fairly seemless
[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
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
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
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
Pretty exciting day today for the team – as I speak, Michael Klucher is presenting the first public talk on how to develop games for Windows Phone 7 Series devices. There’s been some good buzz around the show about the phone, and it looks like it’s
F# error error message are somewhat painful. “The type ‘unit’ does not match the type ‘float’” tuned out to require me to add an else statement to the code I had written. Still not sure why, but at least it complies now
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