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Movie futures

From the FT we learn that there will be not one, but two new movie exchanges where speculators and hedgers can bet on the profitability of movies: the Cantor Fitzgerald offering, HSX (launching sometime in late April, we assume), and something call the
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Alex Kirtland
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Mar 12 2010 02:01 AM
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Improving your validation code — a refactoring exercise

Today we’re going to talk about validation. Most people have some concept where they validate an entity object before it is saved to the database. There are many ways to implement this, and I’ve finally found my favorite way of writing
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Jon Kruger
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Mar 11 2010 09:26 PM
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Transparency for derivatives

The FT reports that the CFTC is pushing for greater transparency for derivatives. Since many derivatives are indeed traded on exchanges, what they’re really talking about here are derivatives traded OTC (over-the-counter). And really what they mean
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Alex Kirtland
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Mar 11 2010 07:00 PM
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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!
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Doug Finke
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Mar 11 2010 08:59 AM
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Mar 11 2010 07:07 AM
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Parsing the SXSW Twitter Stream for Fun

Over the weekend I decided to toss together a simple twitter stream monitoring app that would capture SXSW tweets. I wanted to build on some of what I learned while hacking together the stuff for code2009 and it was also an excuse to play with node.js
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Mar 11 2010 05:02 AM
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It Has Begun! First Sessions on Developing Games for Windows Phone at GDC

Pretty exciting day today for the team – as I speak, Michael Klucher is presenting the first public talk on how to develop games for Windows Phone 7 Series devices. There’s been some good buzz around the show about the phone, and it looks like it’s
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Ozymandias
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Mar 11 2010 04:42 AM
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Google Finance’s new tool: Domestic Trends

Not sure how I didn’t see this before, but Google Finance now has a new(ish) feature called Google Domestic Trends. This is essentially Google Trends, but with the searched for keywords organized into useful concepts (i.e. retail, durable goods,
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Alex Kirtland
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Mar 11 2010 12:20 AM
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Another Update

This new version of my site is done for now. More importantly, I have partnered with some great people from Virid to launch a new venture: Citrus Design Group. Holler at us for all of your creative needs! No related posts. No related posts.
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Mar 10 2010 06:57 AM
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Windows Phone 7 Series at GDC

Made it to GDC, and I have to say it’s been great hearing buzz around Windows Phone already! We’ve got some great big banners up (as you can see), and between dinner last night and just getting coffee this morning I’ve had five folks ask about
Ozymandias
 
Ozymandias
tags: uncategorized gdc windows phone windows phone 7 series
Mar 09 2010 11:48 PM
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The Rise and Fall of mod_perl

In February of 2008 I figured out how to switch our servers from IIS to Apache. The main reason I did that was because if you print to STDERR in Perl while running under IIS the server would crash hard. In general it just took some research and
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Mar 09 2010 07:52 AM
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HPC at Large and @Lab

Last week Greg Luck, the founder and now CTO of Ehcache, came from Australia and presented at the HPC/Cloud Computing Workgroup and the @Lab Seminar. Shawn Gandhi, of Lab49 runs the Workgroup (that’s him above with the microphone and Greg Luck is
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Aaron Goldman
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Mar 09 2010 07:12 AM
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My Chair, My Enemy

“Your chair is your enemy,” starts the New York Times article Stand Up While You Read This! To give you the thesis of the article, here are the next two paragraphs in the article: It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at
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Joey deVilla
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Mar 08 2010 08:07 PM
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Mar 08 2010 06:28 PM
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Interesting collaborative music and spoken word project

In Bb
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Doug Finke
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Mar 07 2010 07:31 PM
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You should Provide a Service, not a Defense

Let’s assume you are manager (or just part of) a small department. The task of the department is to make sure that everybody in the company is using Grglwup for wumpeling and does so in the correct way. What do you do to achieve that? The approach I see
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Mar 07 2010 11:44 AM
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Mar 07 2010 11:23 AM
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How Fanboys See .NET Data Access Strategies

Just a play off of the recent "How Fanboys See Operating Systems" post that's been circulating the web. Entity Framework NHibernate Subsonic ADO.NET Datasets as seen by… Entity Framework NHibernate Subsonic ADO.NET Datasets
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Kevin Pang
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Mar 07 2010 07:13 AM
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Kevin Pang on How .NET Data Access Fanboys See Each Other’s Strategies

I love Kevin Pang’s adaptation of my adaptation, How Fanboys See Operating Systems: here’s How Fanboys See .NET Data Access Strategies… I especially love the bit about ADO.NET. This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
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Joey deVilla
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Mar 07 2010 03:06 AM
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The Basic Semantics of Nominals and Generative Lexicon

dzone_url = "http://www.codedanger.com/caglar/?p=315";Generative Lexicon Generative Lexicon is a computational theory of linguistic semantics that focuses on the nature of compositionality. The theory is firstly proposed by James Pustejovsky in 1991 in
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caglar
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Mar 07 2010 02:44 AM
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How Fanboys See .NET Data Access Strategies

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Kevin Pang
 
Kevin Pang
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Mar 07 2010 02:39 AM
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This Too Shall Pass: Rube Goldberg Machine version

Just saw David Pogue tweet about an Rube Goldberg music video by OK Go and wanted to share. Love this sort of thing! Thanks David! Related posts:Halo 3, Grenades, and Rube Goldberg Web 2.0 – The Machine is Us/ing Us Comparison of Las Vegas Slot
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Mar 06 2010 05:59 AM
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Break with the Past, Bright New Future: Windows Phone Application Development Platform built on XNA and Silverlight

Went down to San Francisco yesterday to attend a dinner where Charlie Kindle walked a few industry folks around how we approached building Windows Phone, as well as some of the ramifications for software development that fall out of that. Although I’ll
Ozymandias
 
Ozymandias
tags: uncategorized silverlight windows phone wp7dev
Mar 06 2010 01:46 AM
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Before for loops were invented…

A friend of mine showed me this piece of code, gathered from a project he was working on: else { row.createCell((short)col++).setCellValue(""); row.createCell((short)col++).setCellValue("");
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Administrator
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Mar 05 2010 09:26 PM
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“… a true combinatorial prediction market …”

Yahoo scientist David Pennock proudly presents his new baby, Predictalot. Despite the ridiculousness of the name (lets hope they don’t get a lot of Spamalot), it is quite different than any other prediction market I’ve seen out there. As Dr.
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Alex Kirtland
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Mar 05 2010 07:29 PM
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Your Thoughts on Xbox LIVE and Windows Phone?

It’s been a few days since we announced that we’ll be bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows Phone 7 Series. To recap, we stated that starting this holiday you’ll be able to: Collect Achievements and build your Gamerscore View Xbox LIVE leaderboards See your Xbox
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Ozymandias
tags: uncategorized windows phone windows phone 7 series xbox-live
Mar 05 2010 12:58 PM
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The first review of Advanced MVVM

I’m thrilled to announce that Tim Heuer, one of the top Silverlight community members and evangelists at Microsoft, has published a review of my book Advanced MVVM. He gave the book a very solid thumbs-up, which made my day! If you’re
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Josh Smith
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Mar 05 2010 03:06 AM
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Code Templates for MigratorDotNet

I’ve been hacking around with database migrations and decided to give MigratorDotNet a go. The first problem I found was that I had to manually number the migrations. The trick of using the migration attribute with the current date and time formatted as
The Old Sewing Factory
 
ilivewithian
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Mar 05 2010 02:32 AM
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wxMaxima CAS is Amazing

Yesterday I forgot my beloved Casio FX991-ES calculator at my friends’. At the moment I am very busy preparing for my math exams at March 19th, so this unfortunate situation had to be resolved somehow. The Mac OS X Snow-Leopard on my surf-station
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Mar 04 2010 10:53 PM
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Ignite Your Coding Begins Today – 2 p.m. Eastern with Andy “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning” Hunt!

Gratuitious flaming wok shot courtesy of Ricardo Liberato. Yay Creative Commons! Click the photo to see the original. Today’s the big day! John Bristowe and I kick off the live Ignite Your Coding webcast this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. Eastern/11:00 a.m.
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Joey deVilla
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Mar 04 2010 11:54 AM
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How to Teach a Programming Class

So, I’ve been having some crazy ideas on how to teach a programming class. First, I’d used a spaced repetition selection for homework and potentially quiz questions. Each homework would be cumulative, with the majority of the questions coming
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Ryan
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Mar 04 2010 09:39 AM
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Engineering Challenge — Networked

So, the basic idea for a contest with Engineering Challenge is to have the student teams working at computers with software to create robot AIs. These computers act as clients to a central server which displays results and matches between the AIs. This
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Ryan
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Mar 04 2010 09:29 AM
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Late Night Reading: Concurrency Visualizer, Testing Silverlight Apps and More

Performance Tuning with the Concurrency Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010 Testing Silverlight Apps Using Messages WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning IL perversions: throwing and catching strings
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Matt
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Mar 04 2010 05:34 AM
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Notes on AppFabric Beta 2 and Cache Notifications

After successfully installing AppFabric beta 2, I though it was time to look at hooking Velocity into a Proof Of Concept (POC) I’m working on. Having played around with Velocity during the CTP1/2 timeframe it provide painful to remember what to do
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Matt
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Mar 03 2010 09:08 PM
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5 Ways Not to Use Virtualization

With all of the talk about virtualization lately, many organizations are ready to pick up everything and virtualize it. After all, it’s the thing to do! Here are some things to keep in mind before virtualizing everything in sight: 1. Don’t virtualize
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Andrew H.
tags: uncategorized virtualization
Mar 03 2010 08:45 PM
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StreamInsight: Can We Build An ECN?

Eurex is an example of an ECN. Given that my Market Strategy Engine (MSE) effective provide agent style strategy execution, the next logical question is whether an ECN Proof Of Concept (POC) can be build with StreamInsight. I suspect most ECN’s are
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Matt
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Mar 03 2010 07:32 PM
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Hallelujah. Code formatting in my wordpress blog!

How did I not know about the Sourcecode tags? I have spent years trying to figure out how to post nice looking code to my blog and was misled by all the plug-in nonsense which only applies if you are hosting your own wordpress instance – which
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Mar 03 2010 06:03 PM
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Running three Monitors off a Radeon 5870 card

Okay, as said last time, I bought a Radeon 5870 card with the desire to drive three monitors. Now, ATI proudly claims that they have three independent display controllers, which is true. And the card has 2x DVI, 1x HDMI and 1x Display Port, so you would
Not Rocket Science
 
mstum
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Mar 03 2010 09:14 AM
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The Business Cycle Clock

I came across this fascinating information visualization the other day, the OECD Business Cycle Clock. It tracks four types of economic indicators and plots them as a time series. Play the animation and you can see how the economic indicators move
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Alex Kirtland
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Mar 03 2010 06:25 AM
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A Clockwork Box

With CSS there are always various ways to accomplish something. After reading this short tidbit, you should be familiar with the various ways of controlling the size of an element’s padding, border, and margin, and you should know what the handy
David B. Calhoun - Developer Blog
 
David
tags: uncategorized box model css
Mar 03 2010 05:01 AM