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Imagine Cup and Windows Phone 7

The Olive Appreciation Society comprises of two students from the University of Manchester with a passion for thorough planning and marinated olives. They got together and created an incredible application that's become the UK Finalist for the Imagine
Jul 01 2010 02:51 PM
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Geocoding using Silverlight

  Last night I was reading through the Vision and Scope document for a project that we are involved in with the British Library, one of the requirements was to geocode a search term. If you are not familiar with the term geocoding then
Jun 28 2010 06:43 PM
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Google Caffeine will now force companies to blog.

The major impact of Google Caffeine is that it will be using a different kind of indexation that will be giving a lead to blog culture. Find out how companies will have to implement blogs to stay in the SEO race. Related posts:Yahoo! Search will be
 
Web Design Mauritius
Jun 23 2010 07:50 PM
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Big brother in Extreme detail

The final series of Big brother has kicked off and whilst the latest group of 13 wannabes, including A Beyonce lookalike, a squatter who lives on discarded food, and a double amputee, enter the house, Shoothill have been busy producing a DeepZoom of all
Jun 22 2010 04:45 PM
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The Sun headlines directly in your browser

Over the past few months I've been working with some great brands helping them to leverage the features of IE8. The Sun were one of those brands and today they have released a Football Headlines and Showbiz Headlines webslice. You can install them here.
May 26 2010 03:35 PM
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Smashing Magazine has changed, will the trend whores also change?

Have you noticed the changed Smashing Magazine has made to its editorial line? Will the trendbwhores copying the trend setting website's new policies too? This article covers the history and the reasons for the swift changes Smashing Magazine has been
 
Web Design Mauritius
May 12 2010 01:31 PM
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Smashing Magazine has changed, will the trend whores also change?

Have you noticed the changed Smashing Magazine has made to its editorial line? Will the trendbwhores copying the trend setting website's new policies too? This article covers the history and the reasons for the swift changes Smashing Magazine has been
 
Web Design Mauritius
May 12 2010 01:31 PM
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Round up of the best posts of April 2010 on the Bureau.

The Web Design Bureau of Mauritius seems to have reached a new level in terms of web presense and traffic over the past month. This is why I have decided to make an overview of the most viewed posts each month. What might be somewhat disturbing is that
 
Web Design Mauritius
May 07 2010 04:15 PM
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Round up of the best posts of April 2010 on the Bureau.

The Web Design Bureau of Mauritius seems to have reached a new level in terms of web presence and traffic over the past month. This is why I have decided to make an overview of the most viewed posts each month. What might be somewhat disturbing is that
 
Web Design Mauritius
May 05 2010 04:14 PM
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VS2010 with a real project

I’ve had access to VS2010 for the past 4 months but the last 2 weeks was the first time I'd used it to produce production code (yeah I really produce that little code these days), I was helping some customers produce IE8 Webslices and Accelerators. I
May 05 2010 03:21 PM
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Mac Address in Silverlight 4

A few weeks ago I was discussing way to Get A Mac Address in Silverlight 4 with James Forage. I was looking to see  if there was a managed way of doing this, sadly there isn’t. However James discovered a rather interesting Unmanaged way using
May 04 2010 08:38 PM
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Windows Phone 7 gets a tools refresh

It feels like only a couple of weeks since the initial Windows Phone 7 tools release back in February… or was it march? (time is going too fast recently) but inline with promises about quick iterations the New Windows Phone 7 tools have been
May 02 2010 09:08 PM
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Google “star” feature to replace Search Wiki.

The Google SearchWiki never really caught up, so the company is now replacing it with the "Star" feature. Here is an overview of this feature and why it replaces the SearchWiki. Related posts:Only 21% of search results on Google are organic. Google
 
Web Design Mauritius
Mar 08 2010 07:20 PM
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PHP in the Azure Cloud

If I said Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, supported PHP would it surprise you?   I'll be honest, it surprised me. I kept overhearing hushed voices taking about PHP running on Azure, but whenever I asked anyone if they'd actually
Mar 02 2010 04:56 PM
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Customer Connected Engineering at patterns & practices

This post is a write up of how we do Customer-Connected Engineering on the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Our Customer-Connected Engineering process has been a key part of our success and impact in the software industry. While this write up is
Dec 26 2009 11:13 AM
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Avoiding the Etch a Sketch Ending

Sometimes you take a look at a program and think: wouldn't it be much easier to start again rather than build on what is already there. Starting with a blank canvas on which you can draw your own idea is tempting, because the perfectionist inside you
Dec 23 2009 10:13 PM
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The perfect watch

  The best present I've ever received was undoubtedly a watch, given to me by my Girlfriend Michelle. I don't remember receiving it or opening it, but I remember loving it. It had everything, it was Swiss made, had an automatic movement, a sweeping
Dec 23 2009 07:54 PM
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E.Magiciens 2009 Reportages

The e-magiciens festival offers a preview of the widest overview of graduation films and appears to be the first festival dedicated to the young digital creation. The students participating are those who are trained to become the future masters in the
 
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Dec 01 2009 12:08 PM
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London Wicket Meetup: Wicket 1.5, WiQuery, Brix and more..

On November 21st the London Wicket meetup took place in "The Gallery" at the central London Foyles Bookshop. At the venue some well-known Wicket-related speakers made their entrance and held talks about Brix, Wicket 1.5, WiQuery, and how having a baby
 
Daan
Nov 27 2009 05:33 AM
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Dynamic objects in C# 4.0

Ladies and Gentlemen allow me to introduce you to the fantastic Expando... I felt like I had to open this blog post like that because the name Expando conjures up the image of a cheap magician, a sort of dishevelled David Blaine. The similarities between
Nov 17 2009 04:51 AM
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Entity Framework 4

  I'm as excited as an 11-year-old girl at a JLS concert today as I know that soon Entity framework 4 will be a reality and quite frankly the current version of the entity framework saves about as much time as a battery operated travel iron.  
Nov 09 2009 08:21 PM
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Automatically test your Wicket panel HTML markup

Are you testing your HTML markup automatically yet? If your markup does not match the Java code, your Wicket panel does not work. It's easy to get early feedback when your panels are broken: just unit test them! In this blog post I describe a way of
 
Daan
Nov 02 2009 02:11 AM
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Scrum Burndown plugin 1.9.2 released!

A new version of the Scrum Burndown plugin for Trac is released, bringing a bug fix and a Python 2.6 egg. This is the last version that will support Trac 0.10. After this version, Trac 0.10 support will be dropped. New features There are no new features,
 
Daan
Nov 01 2009 08:43 AM
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Interaction Design and Extreme Programming

There is a discussion about combining interaction design and extreme programming. Alan Cooper says you should do interaction design before doing anything else. Kent Beck disagrees as he wants to integrate interaction design in the iterations of XP. What
 
Daan
Nov 01 2009 08:43 AM
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Better detection of browser drive-by infections

Thijs Kinkhorst and Michael van Kleij have achieved a big improvement in the detection of drive-by infections through browser exploits. The two Dutch students have devised a method to inspect HTTP network traffic with rulesets to determine if an attack
 
Daan
Nov 01 2009 08:43 AM
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Amsterdam Wicket meetup 2009

At the Amsterdam Wicket meetup 2009 I did a presentation about Scala and Wicket. Click below to read the entire post and download everything! Related posts:ApacheCon Europe 2009 community meetup experiences8.47% is a Resource: statistics about
 
Daan
Nov 01 2009 08:43 AM
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Refcard: Getting started with Wicket released

Some days ago, Andrew Lombardi released a new Refcard: Getting started with Wicket. You can get these and more on the DZone Refcardz site. Related posts:Wicket RAD 0.6 released8.47% is a Resource: statistics about WicketTerracotta for Wicket (updated)
 
Daan
Nov 01 2009 08:43 AM
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ApacheCon Europe 2009 community meetup experiences

In this guest post, Minze Tolsma, software developer at Capgemini shares his experiences attending the ApacheCon community meetups. Related posts:Amsterdam Wicket meetup 20098.47% is a Resource: statistics about Wicket6 Scala resources for Java
 
Daan
Nov 01 2009 08:43 AM
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MVC Perview 2 is out

The MVC preview 2 is out and luckily they seem to have concentrated alot on data annotations, which makes me feel validated with my approach on the latest site I've been working on.   Despite preview 1 not supporting complex objects with data
Oct 02 2009 03:23 PM
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Review: Test Freaks

Earlier in the month I was asked to take a look at the new test freaks website. Test freaks aggregates product information, expert and user reviews into a single user interface much like cnet, price runner or which.   On first impressions the layout
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Sep 17 2009 07:31 PM
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Cloud Security Frame

Here is a draft of our Cloud Security Frame as part of our early exploration work for our patterns & practices Cloud Security Project. It's a lens for looking at Cloud Security. The frame is simply a collection of Hot Spots. Each Hot Spot represents
Aug 20 2009 05:38 AM