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Book Review: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide

I have liked the works of Jacob Gube of Six Revisions and Garrick Cheung of the MooTools Community Team, so when Packt Publishing wanted me to review their book, I accepted. I hope authors, as well as readers, will gain some insights. Here is my review
 
Eric Wendelin
tags: books
Mar 11 2010 04:55 PM
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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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Using Lucene – External Indexes

Lucene is a document indexing engine, that is its sole goal, and it does so beautifully. The interesting bit about using Lucene is that it probably wouldn’t be your main data store, but it is likely to be an important piece of your architecture. The
 
Ayende Rahien
tags: design
Mar 10 2010 05:40 PM
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VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This afternoon we made available the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release candidates.  You can find download links here. Right now
 
ScottGu
Mar 08 2010 10:40 AM
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Telemetry Myopia: The Toyota “Fail Safe” system Debacle and Google cavalier attitude toward Privacy

For the past few weeks members of my team and I have been meeting with key individuals in Bing, Microsoft Online services, and Windows.  In those meetings we have focused on rich telemetry.  We’ve talked about technologies to collect data,
 
Ken Johnston
Mar 08 2010 10:04 AM
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Getting code ready for production

I am currently doing the production-ready pass through the Rhino DivanDB code base, and I thought that this change was interesting enough to post about: public void Execute() { while(context.DoWork) { bool foundWork = false;
 
Ayende Rahien
Mar 06 2010 04:24 PM
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The Non-Death of Blogging

I read Joel Spolsky’s departure from blogging earlier this week but haven’t had time to respond till now. I actually think Joel has a key insight in this piece (although he got it from the inimitable Kathy Sierra), which is that the key is
Mar 06 2010 10:52 AM
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Check Window service is running and Check is Stop using .NET (Csharp & VB)

Author: Aamir Hasan ServiceController class to control the SimpleService service.Add reference to  System.ServiceProcess. Namespace: System.ServiceProcess Assembly: System.ServiceProcess (in System.ServiceProcess.dll)   C# static void
Mar 06 2010 10:10 AM
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Great Offer on Pre-Orders of Visual Studio 2010

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 £484.99. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or any other
Mar 12 2010 05:09 PM
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Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration – #10

if (typeof Meebo == 'undefined') { Meebo=function(){(Meebo._=Meebo._||[]).push(arguments)}; (function(q){ var args = arguments; if (!document.body) { return setTimeout(function(){ args.callee.apply(this, args) }, 100); } var d=document, b=d.body,
 
Waheed Akhtar
Mar 12 2010 05:08 PM
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Unhashing Gitorious paths

Gitorious hashes the repository paths which can be an issue if you need to access them from somewhere else (e.g. Redmine). I wrote a script that creates sane links to the repositories with an easily followable structure. Probably the best way to use this
 
Makis
tags: gitorious
Mar 12 2010 05:07 PM
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Mission critical Flash

NATO started using a Flex application for their Mission Support System in 2007. I saw it in action once… but if I told you about it I would probably end up in a dark dungeon 20 floors below the...
 
Serge Jespers
Mar 12 2010 04:50 PM
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Redesign Process: Taking Small Steps for a Better Website

This is experimental article, where you will see whole redesigning process behind the scenes and read different way of thinking. In this review you will be leaded through necessary steps needed to get successful redesign. If responses and feedback will
Mar 12 2010 04:50 PM
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Free Webcam Software

Yawcam is a shortening for Yet Another WebCAM software, and that’s exactly what it is. More precise Yawcam is a webcam software for windows written in java. The main ideas for Yawcam are to keep it simple and easy to use but to include all the
 
admin
tags: freebies
Mar 12 2010 04:50 PM
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F#: Shocking The Forecast

As I sit here on the train I release that my late night coding meant that I missed shocking the forcast. The following code corrects last nights mistake: let valueDate = new DateTime(2010,1,1) let trade = createIRSTwoLegTrade 101 let npv = [...]
 
Matt
Mar 12 2010 04:49 PM
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Spring – Auto-Wiring Beans with @Autowired annotation

The auto-wiring in the bean configuration file will wire all properties of a bean. In most cases, you may need wire a particular property only. In Spring 2.5, it’s greatly enhance on the auto-wiring feature, it’s possible to use @Autowired
 
mkyong
tags: spring
Mar 12 2010 04:48 PM
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27 Great Sci-Fi Digital Arts from Deviant Art

Science fiction has been widely popular for years. Nowadays, technology enables graphic designers and digital artists to illustrate the fantasy of their imagination through digital arts. There are so many futuristic Sci-Fi concepts that have been created
Mar 12 2010 04:48 PM
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Do you care about your code? QCon promotes software craftsmanship

I'm at the QCon conference in London, one that I particularly value for its vendor-neutrality and strong content. Yesterday we heard from Robert Martin, founder of Object Mentor, on the subject of software craftmanship, or how to avoid bad code. One of
Mar 12 2010 04:48 PM
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Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation

Product Description Silverlight is Microsoft's breakthrough technology for creating rich experiences on the web. This book illustrates the power of Silverlight as a graphics, animation, and game-creation tool. It teaches the fundamentals of computer
Mar 12 2010 04:47 PM
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Visual Studio Addin failed to load

If you are developping a VS addin or even if you are just a VS Addin user you certainly see this popup message in the past: I can attest that this message box popups because of environment issue including: Missing file(s) Mismatch 32bits / 64bits mode
Mar 12 2010 04:45 PM
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Anniversary

So I just realized that Ctrl+Shift+B has been around for just over a year. Happy Birthday to us!
Mar 12 2010 04:22 PM
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You can’t learn the basics from the pros

There was a question recently in the NHibernate mailing list from a guy wanting to learn how to write database agnostic code from the NHibernate source code. While I suppose that this is possible, I can’t really think of a worst way to learn how to write
 
Ayende Rahien
Mar 12 2010 04:20 PM
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Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3

Product Description Business Intelligence (BI) software aims to bring together different pieces of a business into views that can make comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and
Mar 12 2010 04:01 PM
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Windows Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 Library

#ziplib (SharpZipLib, formerly NZipLib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. It is implemented as an assembly (installable in the GAC), and thus can easily be incorporated into other projects (in any .NET
 
admin
Mar 12 2010 02:43 PM
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Another Choice in Software Outsourcing Apart From India and China

Vietnam has strong potential because of the population of nearly 90 million people. Despite the fact that revenue of this sector in 2005 just reached $200 million, the constant growth rate of 25%, which is forecasted to be kept through 2010, certainly
 
TuVinhSoft
Mar 12 2010 02:42 PM
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Improved appointment rendering in RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX, Q1 2010

Now that Q1 2010 release is out in the wild, we can sit down and discuss some of the changes we decided to make in the new release. One of them is the new appointment rendering of RadScheduler - a potentially breaking change, but a much needed one. If
Mar 12 2010 02:41 PM
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YouTube Movie of jMonkeyEngine on NetBeans Platform

YouTube movie of a preview of jMonkeyEngine Game Development Environment that is being moved to the NetBeans Platform:Follow the ongoing discussions about this work here.
 
geertjan
Mar 12 2010 02:41 PM
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A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM

Introduction If you work with Silverlight or WPF, you have probably met the phrase “MVVM”. Almost everyone who is anyone in the WPF / Silverlight scene has their own MVVM framework, and their own way of explaining and teaching MVVM. Scary terms like IoC,
Mar 12 2010 02:40 PM
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Binding a select in a client template

I recently got a question on one of my client template posts asking me how to bind a select tag’s value to data in client templates. I was surprised not to find anything on the web addressing the problem, so I thought I’d write a short post about it. It
 
Bertrand Le Roy
Mar 12 2010 02:40 PM
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Quick Tip: How to Get Great HTML Meta Tags

When you’re reading around the web about what to focus on when creating a web page, and you’re sure to find a host of opinions which, in total, insist that every single page element holds the secret to attracting traffic, pleasing visitors,
 
Hannah Wiggins
Mar 12 2010 02:37 PM
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Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – From Blocking to Async

We’ve covered a bit of ground already in this series on the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) from the basic information, creating observers and observables, jQuery integration and in the last post talking about composing asynchronous methods
Mar 12 2010 02:37 PM
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UniformGrid for Silverlight

Jobi Joy has converted the WPF UniformGrid to Silverlight. My recent Silverlight project had a need to distribute the items in rows and columns. I had to dynamically calculate the number of columns and rows it needed based on some logic. So it was clear
Mar 12 2010 02:35 PM
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Library for Windows API Hooking

EasyHook 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
 
admin
Mar 12 2010 02:25 PM
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Open Source Windows Spying Tool

oSpy is a tool which aids in reverse-engineering software running on the Windows platform. With the amount of proprietary systems that exist today (synchronization protocols, instant messaging, etc.), the amount of work required to keep up when
 
admin
Mar 12 2010 02:21 PM
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10 Amazing jQuery Text Effects and Animations

To use jQuery you do not need to be a hardcore coder or developer. JavaScript library to make you can easily insert a jQuery plugin and smoothed the next web project. What if you want something simpler, a little drop-shadow here, a simple text animation
 
denbagus
Mar 12 2010 02:20 PM
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IIS7 FastCGI

FastCGI extension has a set of configuration settings that controls the behavior of FastCGI processes associated with the FastCGI process pool. This section lists all the settings supported by FastCGI and their format: * ExePath – The physical path
Mar 12 2010 02:20 PM
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Auto Generate Forms With Django's ModelForm

In this short article, we'll analyze a better way (in some cases) to create forms for your Django models. If you've ever worked with Django forms, then you know that there is a lot of repetitive code involved in the process of writing a form to create
Mar 12 2010 02:15 PM
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WCF Ria Services For Real

In this post, Jesse Liberty concentrates his attention on the strengths of WCF RIA Services. 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
Mar 12 2010 01:57 PM
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FIT vs SLIM

I got this question from a blog reader recently: I just wanted your opinion on SLIM as opposed to standard FIT/Fitnesse. Are there things that can only be done via the FIT/Fitnesse route that cannot be done via SLIM? So for acceptance tests and
 
gojko
Mar 12 2010 01:41 PM