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Le 25 Septembre: Samedi .NET– Introduction au B.I.

If you’re in Montreal on September 25th and want to learn about developing BI applications – that’s BI as in “Business Intelligence” — La Communauté .NET Montreal’s Samedi.NET event, Introduction au BI, is exactly what you need. Here’s what the
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Joey deVilla
tags: uncategorized bi business intelligence conferences
Sep 03 2010 08:49 PM
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Announcing WriteType 1.0.98

The next version of WriteType (1.0.98) is now available for download! WriteType is a word processor designed to make typing easier and more efficient for young students and students with disabilities. What’s new in this release? Grammar checking:
A High School Student's Views on Software Freedom
 
Max Shinn
tags: uncategorized
Sep 03 2010 01:38 PM
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Why computers represent signed integers using two’s complement

If you had to come up with a way to represent signed integers in 32-bits, how would you do it? One simple solution would be to use one bit to represent the sign, and the remaining 31 bits to represent the absolute value of the number. But as many
Igor Ostrovsky Blogging
 
Igor Ostrovsky
tags: uncategorized
Sep 03 2010 11:21 AM
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Third, and Hopefully Final, Post on Correlated Random Normal Generation (Cholesky Edition)

When I did a brief post three days ago I had no plans on writing two more posts on correlated random number generation. But I’ve gotten a couple of emails, a few comments, and some Twitter feedback. In response to my first post, Gappy, calls me out
Cerebral Mastication
 
JD Long
tags: uncategorized howto r risk
Sep 03 2010 09:22 AM
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Test Your App on a Real Windows Phone in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal

Pre-manufacturing Windows Phone 7 devices are incredibly hard to come by, but we’re working on ways for you to test your WP7 apps on the real thing. One way we’re doing this is by holding “Deployment Clinics” all over Canada. Today (Thursday, Sept 2):
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Joey deVilla
tags: uncategorized calgary coffee and code deployment
Sep 03 2010 06:21 AM
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NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer’s Guide review coming soon

I have recently received a review copy of Jürgen Petri’s book, NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer’s Guide, and I will be posting a review of it after I finish reading it in the coming weeks. You can check the book out on Packt’s store
CodeUtopia - The blog of Jani Hartikainen
 
Jani Hartikainen
tags: uncategorized books review
Sep 03 2010 05:51 AM
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Windows Phone 7 Goes RTM

Gone RTM That’s right: the last touches have been put on the Windows Phone 7 OS and it’s now in “RTM”, Release to Manufacturing. Here’s what Terry Myerson wrote on the Windows Phone Blog: Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform
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Joey deVilla
tags: uncategorized developer tools guidelines marketplace
Sep 03 2010 04:18 AM
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A bad argument from real life

Bad argument up for scrutiny here. There are many different kinds of invalid arguments and it's a great asset to be able to detect them quickly. Here's a fictive situation, developers and the person they report to – the project leader. A: This code will
Jayway Team Blog
 
Niklas Uhrberg
tags: uncategorized argument team
Sep 02 2010 03:28 AM
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Even Simpler Multivariate Correlated Simulations

So after yesterday’s post on Simple Simulation using Copulas I got a very nice email that basically begged the question, “Dude, why are you making this so hard?” The author pointed out that if what I really want is a Gaussian
Cerebral Mastication
 
JD Long
tags: uncategorized howto r risk
Sep 01 2010 06:45 AM
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Windows Phone 7 App: Rubik’s Cube

I was a teenager in the 1980s, which meant that along with watching Knight Rider, going to Depeche Mode concerts and playing blocky games on an Atari 2600, I had a Rubik’s cube. These puzzle toys were such a big craze at the time that toy and game stores
Global Nerdy
 
Joey deVilla
tags: uncategorized casual games games magmic
Sep 01 2010 04:41 AM
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Rubinius wants to help YOU make Ruby better

It is a great time to be a Rubyist. This year we have already seen IronRuby 1.0, JRuby 1.5, with Ruby 1.9 due to be released shortly. Ruby is simply becoming better and faster on every platform. And, wherever Ruby is, Rails is sure to be nearby. Rails 3
Engine Yard Blog
 
Brian Ford
tags: uncategorized rubinius
Aug 31 2010 11:54 AM
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Stochastic Simulation With Copulas in R

A friend of mine gave me a call last week and was wondering if I had a little R code that could illustrate how to do a Cholesky decomposition. He ultimately wanted to build a Monte Carlo model with correlated variables. I pointed him to a number of
Cerebral Mastication
 
JD Long
tags: uncategorized howto r risk
Aug 31 2010 11:53 AM
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Introducing Deliberate Discovery

Last year I wrote about how we are doing planning all wrong, or rather, how we seem to focus on the wrong things when we do planning. We obsess about stories and story points and estimation, because that’s what we’ve been taught to do. It
DanNorth.net
 
Dan North
tags: uncategorized learning
Aug 31 2010 10:44 AM
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Scala: Easier to read (and write), harder to understand?

There is a vivid discussion about Scala’s complexity going on for some weeks now on the web even with a response from Martin Odersky. I want to throw my 2¢ together with some hopefully new aspects into the discussion. Scala’s liberal syntax
Schneide Blog
 
Miq
tags: programming language scala software development uncategorized
Aug 31 2010 08:23 AM
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Customers as advocates

Bit of a shameless plug, but I really like the work that’s coming out of our social media team. GoRecommend started as a tactical integration point so our customers could track, and to some extent guide, where their brands ended up in Facebook
Simon Palmer's blog
 
simonpalmer
tags: uncategorized
Aug 31 2010 06:34 AM
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Fixing ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation CREATE USER failed

I got bitten by this several times already, here is what usually works if this error happens for user foo delete from mysql.user where user=foo; delete from mysql.db where user=foo
Nothing to say
 
cournape
tags: uncategorized
Aug 31 2010 12:30 AM
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Windows Phone-a-Palooza

The "Windows Phone Canada" LinkedIn Group If you’re not a member of LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, you should join it now! It’s a great place to keep in touch with your network of working peers, post and maintain your
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Joey deVilla
tags: uncategorized bootcamp deployment clinic development
Aug 30 2010 07:23 PM
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Java Desktop links of the week, August 30

A very quiet week in the land of the Java Desktop, although thanks to the people who emailed me their links. I put this partly down to the JavaOne effect – everyone is off working on their talks and not blogging as much – the same thing
Jonathan Giles
 
Jonathan
tags: java uncategorized javafx
Aug 30 2010 11:29 AM
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Thailand: Day 0

I made it to Phuket in one piece. The journey itself was actually one of the better ones that I’ve had. For the third time flight in a row I was moved to the seats by the exit which meant I could nicely stretch out. Even so, it would seem that the
richard hart
 
Richard
tags: uncategorized
Aug 30 2010 07:24 AM
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The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 32 – Dave Ward

Our guest this week is Dave Ward (http://encosia.com), who is the co-host of the Tekpub video series on jQuery, Mastering jQuery. We talk about the Tekpub series as well as caching lengths with the Google CDN and Microsoft CDN amoungst other CDN
Official jQuery Blog
 
Ralph Whitbeck
tags: uncategorized
Aug 28 2010 06:18 AM
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AmpKit & AmpKit LiNK Generating Tremendous Excitement Around the World

Just a couple days after launch, the AmpKit apps and AmpKit LiNK are already generating tremendous excitement among guitar players and reviewers around the world. Word-of-mouth communication and published reviews have already helped propel AmpKit and
Agile Partners - Blog
 
John Liu
tags: uncategorized
Aug 27 2010 11:53 AM
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Building JSLint Into Your Build Process (3 of 3)

This is the last in a series of articles that elaborated on a the incremental steps we took to address an issue with our JavaScript causing some last minute scrambling in our development and release processes. The last article finished with the
Engineering Blog
 
Mike Rampson
tags: uncategorized maven jslint mojo
Aug 27 2010 11:16 AM
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The Ruby Toolbox

One of the great things about Ruby is the community. When something is not working out as well as it could, someone figures out a way to improve it. It used to be difficult to select what gems, Ruby libraries, to use when solving a task that I was not
Jayway Team Blog
 
Anders Janmyr
tags: tips & tricks uncategorized ruby
Aug 27 2010 05:25 AM
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Get Ready for Autumn 2010 Shopping Boom!

The Fall is almost here and as every year it will bring the never-ending sweet season of sales. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday, Black Friday – we as online store customers are all waiting for them impatiently, and so does the audience of your
SmashingWebs: Online Showcase for Designers
 
admin
tags: uncategorized
Aug 26 2010 11:53 AM
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Introducing JRubyConf 2010

We're excited to join forces with our friends at EdgeCase to co-host the second annual JRubyConf, taking place October 1-3 at Quest Conference Center in Columbus, Ohio. This year, we've expanded the event to include three days of JRuby-filled goodness.
Engine Yard Blog
 
Melissa Sheehan
tags: uncategorized
Aug 26 2010 11:16 AM
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WordCamp Montreal and WebMatrix

We’ll be at WordCamp Montreal this Saturday! (In fact, for the second year in a row, Microsoft is a gold sponsor for the event.) WordCamp Montreal takes place this Saturday and Sunday, August 28th and 29th in the Agora Hydro-Quebec in the UQAM
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Joey deVilla
tags: uncategorized
Aug 25 2010 10:10 PM
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The Long and Winding Road – Creating a Model Listener in Liferay 6

I had Liferay, I had Web Content, I had Tags and I had a problem. Tags were supposed to be automatically added and removed when creating or updating a Web Content article. A quick browse through the source code did not give gave me a direct solution -
Jayway Team Blog
 
Karin Hofbauer
tags: uncategorized
Aug 25 2010 09:37 PM
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Extensible Autocomplete

The release of the Autocomplete widget in jQuery UI 1.8 was a pretty important milestone for the jQuery UI team. If you’ve looked at the widget, you may have noticed that there are only four options, far fewer than our other plugins. Unlike
jQuery UI Blog
 
Scott González
tags: uncategorized
Aug 25 2010 03:57 PM
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jQuery Conference 2010: Boston Announcement

The jQuery Project is very excited to announce the jQuery Conference 2010: Boston on October 16-17, 2010. The conference will be held at the Hilton Boston Logan in Boston, Massachusetts. The best part of this announcement is that Tickets are on sale
Official jQuery Blog
 
Ralph Whitbeck
tags: uncategorized
Aug 25 2010 12:31 PM
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Couponology 101

Not only do I like to talk the talk about saving money: I also like to walk the walk. BUT how did I ever learn so much about a good deal. The answer is CLICK HERE!!! That is right we are all going back to coupon-college to get a degree in couponology. As
Inside DealTaker
 
DealTaker Team
tags: uncategorized
Aug 25 2010 11:47 AM
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Windows Phone 7

My WP7 loaner is off to the next dev. It was a fun week. Although I wasn't able to push apps, I spent significant amounts of time as a user. It game me a clear picture as to what to look for when getting a device. Get a WP7 phone that has a mini USB.
Corey Schuman
 
Corey
tags: uncategorized
Aug 25 2010 11:18 AM
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AmpKit Apps Launch and AmpKit LiNK Shipping Now!

We’re incredibly excited at Agile Partners to join forces with Peavey Electronics, one of the world’s largest music and audio products companies, to launch AmpKit and AmpKit+. The apps are the ultimate iPhone amp and effects studios with extensive
Agile Partners - Blog
 
John Liu
tags: agile partners news uncategorized
Aug 25 2010 10:49 AM
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New XNA Creators Club Educational Material Available!

Just wanted to point folks over to the XNA Creators Club Online site today, as we’ve just released a set of samples, articles, and labs that are designed to help teach developers of all levels how to make games for Windows Phone 7 using XNA Game Studio.
Ozymandias
 
Ozymandias
tags: uncategorized windows phone 7 series wp7dev
Aug 24 2010 08:38 AM
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How to map subdomains in Windows 7

Over the last days, I’ve been working on implementing multiple subdomains with authentication in asp.net for the webapp I’m currently working on. There are a few steps needed in order to configure IIS, DNS and authentication. 1. Select the
Felipe Lima
 
felipecsl
tags: uncategorized asp.net iis membership
Aug 24 2010 05:46 AM
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Join the “Windows Phone Canada” LinkedIn Group

If you’re on LinkedIn (and really, you should be) and are interested in developing for Windows Phone 7, you should join the Windows Phone Canada LinkedIn group! It’s a place for Canadian WP7 developers, enthusiasts and users to connect, share news, links
Global Nerdy
 
Joey deVilla
tags: uncategorized community linkedin windows phone
Aug 24 2010 04:04 AM
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Write Test, Execute, Wait, Wait some more, A little longer, Quit!

On of the most painful aspects of working with .NET is the time to retrieve feedback after writing tests and waiting to see the red/green result. The obvious overhead is the compilation time, and this is especially apparent when updating a large solution
Chris J Owen
 
enginechris
tags: uncategorized
Aug 23 2010 06:46 PM
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“HTML5 Up and Running”– Only $9.99 Today!

Want to get started developing sites and web applications that run on all modern browsers, including the upcoming Internet Explorer 9? You’ll need HTML 5 (along with CSS 3 and JavaScript) and a handy guide like Mark Pilgrim’s new book, HTML5 Up and
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Joey deVilla
tags: uncategorized books discount codes html 5
Aug 21 2010 09:08 AM
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New Concurrency Support in .NET 4

I’ve been reading about some of the new support for parallelism and concurrency in version 4 of the .NET Framework, and came across a really good paper on parallel design patterns by Steven Toub (most or all of which seems … Continue reading
bloggo ergo sum
 
Ben
tags: uncategorized .net c# concurrency
Aug 21 2010 07:01 AM
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Office Lego Toys

Before leaving the New Zealand office I took some pictures of the Lego toys (and other machine toys) around the office. But I never posted them…. here they are: Side note: it seems that almost everybody in the USA pronounces … Continue
Simeon Pilgrim
 
Simeon
tags: uncategorized
Aug 21 2010 04:57 AM
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What’s it Like Using Hosted Continuous Integration (via Mike CI blogs)

Hosted Continuous Integration is a great way to help dispersed teams collaborate and it’s cheaper than running your own kit. This blog post from the guys at MikeCI is an interview with a project lead who’s developers are using their platform
Ben Wilcock
 
benwilcock
tags: uncategorized
Aug 21 2010 12:52 AM