My two-hundred-and-third podcast is up. I was in Egypt and had the opportunity to sit down with Lamees and Abeer, two successful women in IT. Lamees is a programmer transitioning to Systems Analysis, and Abeer is a veteran Senior Systems Analyst and
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
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I have no idea if this thing is real or not but ooooh, I hope it is. It looks sensational. via Engadget who has more images and video and says it’ll be an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7 photo when closed.
As you may have noticed, we’ve given Webmonkey an entirely new coat of paint.
The visual design has been refreshed — something we’ve been doing every couple of years since we launched in 1996 — and we honestly think the site has
From Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering ...In addition to the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee, were excited to confirm that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will release to manufacturing (RTM) next month.For
The best way to fight viruses? Stop using Windows – You can accuse Microsoft of many things but you can never accuse the company of being short on chutzpah. The latest example of the brazen manner in which the company reacts to problems which it
PHP's PDO database abstraction class offers a better way to connect to databases than the mysql_* etc style functions, or using a 3rd party database library. This post looks at handle errors when connecting and a follow up post later this week will look
What is an Iterator?From Wikipedia: In computer science, an iterator is an object that allows a programmer to traverse through all the elements of a collection, regardless of its specific implementation. The point of using an iterator is to allow the the
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This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do,
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PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and love—Microsoft Excel. Office 2010 is the next version of Office 2010. We all know Office 2010 is on the verge
According to several reports during the past week, Microsoft's browser choice screen was not as random as it could be. Craig describes the problem and reveals Microsoft's solution. Related posts:Microsoft Starts the European Browser Choice Update
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;
The FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize property of the OLE DB Destination is used to determine how many rows should be committed as a single transaction when using the FastLoad option. In SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2005 the default value for this
This post is a simple one… its one to remind all the programmers to take a moment out from your programming job or even take some time off from your main hobby project… take time to enjoy programming.
Recently I tried to learn some Android
Jack had taken three rounds of convincing before he agreed to show up at a meeting. Now as we sit there and watch people talk about the insignificantly stupid things like building a uniform process for improving developer productivity, I can here the
This last week over a 7 day period, I went to Munich, Cairo and Dubai. I presented in three keynotes and did a total of 10 sessions. I crossed 12 time zones and missed my kids. I talked to/with/at about 3000 people. I'm utterly shattered. I took some
Wow, that took a long time. But I've finally managed to get the OpenSolaris codebase (shadowed at http://github.com/alblue/onnv-gate-zfs/tree/onnv_72, in case you're interested) merged in with the original Apple code changes of zfs119. The merged code is
Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Improved Productivity: A 12-Step Program Amber shares her 12-step program for getting more productive. How to Handle a Narcissist Chances [...]
I have been doing Silverlight development since it was released. One question I get asked a lot is how do to create a custom pre-loader for my application. What do I mean by pre-loader? Well, it can be called many things; it could be called a pre-loader,
People are still wondering what are the differences between the two most popular unit testing frameworks in the .NET world: the open source NUnit and the commercial MsTest). Here’s a short list of what i remember instantly: Nunit contains a [TestCase]
This week on Herding Code, Barry Dorrans educates, entertains, insults and scares us with his expert commentary on application security, threat modeling, analysis tools and common attacks. You’ve been waiting for this show. I just know
We had a number of reports about Intellisense crashes soon after the RC was released. After much investigation, the vast majority of reports have boiled down to two issues. We released a patch for the more common of the two a week or so
Invasive Web Sites – Another Look at Flash Cookies.
I first wrote on the issue of Flash Cookies back in September 2009, (LSO (Flash Cookies) – A Serious Attack on Your Privacy), and since then, if my own experience with these obnoxious web trackers is
Bram De Moor, one of my coworkers, has developed a small game which is a part of a university study. I can’t tell you what the study is about, since that would ruin the purpose of the game (and if anyone leaves a comment mentioning it, it will be
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,
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