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 11:02 AM

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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
Windows IT ProThurrott, PaulMicrosoft's Bing online search service gained usage share in the US for the ninth straight month in February, according to market researchers at Hitwise and comScore. Google still dominates the market, with about 68 percent of
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
Visual Studio 2010 contains a very useful feature called ‘View Call Hierarchy’. This feature lets you dive into all the calls that are made ‘to’ a method, property or constructor as well as all the calls that are made ‘from’ that method, property or
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
Gerry Gebel former analyst with the Burton Group and now of Axiomatics provided an interesting perspective on SAML vs XACML that I wanted to expand upon by providing a real-world business scenario...Many people know that I am employed by a Fortune
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
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
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
There are twenty-three Google Chrome extensions and two themes to try out. The following extensions are no more than a few weeks old, and thus, it's highly unlikely that you've seen them yet.
Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development can be terrific tools in defining your code and ensuring the highest quailty software. In this episode, we discuss the differences between TDD and BDD and what the advantages are to doing them.
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
Well, I left out something that was very close to my heart having been developing UI based applications for such a long time. That’s testability: How do you Unit Test your UI with standard / Open Source tools (Project White – now rechristened
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
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.
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
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
Paul Mooney attended my NYC Code Camp talk and was nice enough to record and post the session. Thanks Paul!
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
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