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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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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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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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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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How to snap shot or screen capture Nexus One

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
 
marvin
Mar 11 2010 07:29 PM
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Windows 7 Sells 90 Million Copies

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
 
Craig Buckler
Mar 11 2010 05:25 PM
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New Premium Series: Tumblr Theme Design – Start to Finish

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
 
Jeffrey Way
Mar 11 2010 03:13 PM
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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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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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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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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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Dead-End Heroes

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
 
Jonas Bandi
tags: work
Mar 11 2010 05:42 AM
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Hype: ShirtMockup.com to launch on March 17, 2010

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
 
Jeff Finley
Mar 11 2010 11:54 PM
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Bing Continues Gaining on Google

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
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Mar 11 2010 09:42 PM
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Showcase of 20 Mobile-Friendly Popular Design Blogs

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
Mar 11 2010 07:33 PM
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View Call Hierarchy in Visual Studio 2010

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
Mar 11 2010 07:33 PM
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Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions

  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
 
Luke Wroblewski
tags: mobile
Mar 11 2010 07:31 PM
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SAML vs XACML

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
Mar 11 2010 06:10 PM
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Create A Stylish And Sleek Play-Station Portable Icon

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
Mar 11 2010 05:29 PM
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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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Brand Spankin’ New Google Chrome Extensions You Should Be Trying

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
 
Nathan J. Brauer
Mar 11 2010 03:16 PM
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Brand Spankin' New Google Chrome Extensions

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.
Mar 11 2010 03:14 PM
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PyCon 2010, Analysis: The Other Kind of Testing

PyCon 2010, Analysis: The Other Kind of Testing
Mar 11 2010 12:35 PM
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RC 12 – Test Driven Design and Behavior Driven Development

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.
 
podcast@railscoach.com (Charles Max Wood)
Mar 11 2010 12:34 PM
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Assisted texture assignment preprint availalbe

The preprint for “Assisted texture assignment” is available now. You can find it in my research area as well as at the REVES publications page.
 
Anteru
Mar 11 2010 12:31 PM
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What’s New In Spock 0.4? Episode 1: Data Tables

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
Mar 11 2010 11:21 AM
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Update: The Need for ViewModels

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
Mar 11 2010 11:19 AM
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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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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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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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TuneVision is using Flash Player 10.1 to bring its music video jukebox to Nexus One

Created by SonicSwap.com, TuneVision is a new music video site that builds personalized music video playlists of your favorite artists using Flash Player in your browser. And now, there's a mobile version on the way for the Google Nexus One,...
 
Michelle Perkins
Mar 11 2010 09:00 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