Ruby vs C#: hard data Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 Have you ever tried google trends? It's a fun utility to see trends in search keywords typed in google. You can go as far back as 2004, so there's plenty of data available. You can even compare different ... Ruby vs C#: hard data 0 0 6
Gamasutra Column Matt Christian, January 1, 0001 Most people who Google some form of 'business' and 'games' typically comes across this awesome site that I've read for quite awhile now called Gamasutra.com. Gamasutra features loads of info on the business ... Gamasutra Column 0 0 0
An IDE that pushes PHP Apps Directly to Azure Brian Lanham, January 1, 0001 I read the Andrew Binstock editorial in the latest issue of SD Times, "PHP debuts, Delphi returns, and C++ tapers off". At first, based on the title, it didn't seem worth reading. But it's short and it ... An IDE that pushes PHP Apps Directly to Azure 0 0 0
Thinking about Computer Security Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Cyber security, Cyber war, Cyber vulnerabilities are all hot topics in the news right now. They should be. Most applications and our very infrastructure are incredibly vulnerable. This should remind of ... Thinking about Computer Security 0 0 1
Leveraging Google Analytics Event Tracking On Your Shopify Store Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... Leveraging Google Analytics Event Tracking On Your Shopify Store 0 0 5
6’ Code GIT Challenge – GET GIT MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 It has been some time since I have had an hour or so to do a decent blog post, and finally today I sat down and decided I would just have to make the time. I am itching for some F# programming, but decided ... 6’ Code GIT Challenge – GET GIT 0 0 1
Virtual Brown Bag: Pomodoro and Rails Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 At this week's Virtual Brown Bag meeting: Claudio talked about the Pomodoro Technique JB continued his ramping up with Rails series by showing how to create a model, controller, and views This Rails thing ... Virtual Brown Bag: Pomodoro and Rails 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 17, 2010 -- #950 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Johan Danforth, Michael S. Scherotter, Xianzhong Zhu(-2-), Michael B. McLaughlin, Mike Taulty, Michael Crump, Jobi Joy, Brad Tutterow(-2-), Roger Gullhaug, Tim Heuer, and Walter Ferrari. ... Silverlight Cream for September 17, 2010 -- #950 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with SubscribersThere is a lot of references and blog posts on how to handle SOAP events raised by Team Foundation Server 2005, 2008 and 2010 but is ... Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers 0 0 12
September Topeka .NET User Group Meeting – BDD and SpecFlow Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 TOPIC: BDD and SpecFlow This is a presentation on how to use BDD and SpecFlow to build software driven by specifications. It will include a brief overview of how SpecFlow works and how to define specifications, ... September Topeka .NET User Group Meeting – BDD and SpecFlow 0 0 0
I'm a PC, and I love IE. Charles Young, January 1, 0001 IE9 Beta 1 arrived today, and it looks great. The browser wars are back on and getting heated. The IE guys have been getting very bullish about performance on their blog site. See their post from a few ... I'm a PC, and I love IE. 0 0 6
Internet Explorer 9 Beta Features and Benchmarks mbcrump, January 1, 0001 We have come a long way since IE 1… image property of wikipedia …to IE9 In case you are living under a rock, IE9 Beta was released today. This browser is a major update to the previous version IE8. It ... Internet Explorer 9 Beta Features and Benchmarks 0 0 15
BBerry IOS vs. Android AreYouSerious, January 1, 0001 So everyone knows that there are going to be differences in the way that companies (Cell) impliment certain features on their platforms. Some do better in some areas while others excell in others. I have ... BBerry IOS vs. Android 0 0 0
Visual WebGui is leading the way to the Cloud Webgui, January 1, 0001 Each year the editors of SD Times recognize the top leaders and innovators of the software development industry – the Knights of the Software Development Table as they call them. The list includes 100 ... Visual WebGui is leading the way to the Cloud 0 0 0
15 Things I’ve discovered about Silverlight mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I love Silverlight and have written / talked about it a lot. I can’t help but notice that a lot of people are new to Silverlight or may have played with it a few times. Well this post is for you. It is ... 15 Things I’ve discovered about Silverlight 0 0 0
Koran burning cancelled = terrorist won, USA lost iamjames, January 1, 0001 Well it's official, the terrorist have won. Because of pressure from Islamic terrorist around the globe and our own government a Florida pastor says his church will not do what the Bill of Rights and Constitution ... Koran burning cancelled = terrorist won, USA lost 0 0 8
Calculating the Rank of your blog posts or pages Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Calculating the Rank of your blog posts or pagesI had an idea to have blog posts, or Rules listed not in date order, or an arbitrary order, but in some sort of calculated order. For this I would ... Calculating the Rank of your blog posts or pages 0 0 3
MVVM so easy a n00b can do it (Silverlight4) mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I created a getting started guide for the MVVM pattern back in June 2010. Since the guide came out, I had several developers ask me when I was going to publish my MVVM example that I had promised. I played ... MVVM so easy a n00b can do it (Silverlight4) 0 0 13
Why PowerPivot is a Microsoft Bright Spot andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 For those who haven’t come across it, PowerPivot is Microsoft’s Excel- and SharePoint-based self-service BI tool. Essentially, it allows power users to build their own SQL Server Analysis Services cubes, ... Why PowerPivot is a Microsoft Bright Spot 0 0 0
Mobile Development Resources (iPhone & Android) Ryan Cain, January 1, 0001 While building our mobile app I came across a few valuable resources for some of the specific issues I was facing, I thought I'd share those in case others were looking for similar info. Customized Color ... Mobile Development Resources (iPhone & Android) 0 0 0
UDDI standard is a niche technology. Why? Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 New standard the UDDI was announced several years ago [see the history in Wikipedia]. The UDDI future was promising. I was sure for that. I thought, the future is for Web-services [WS], and it is. Isn't ... UDDI standard is a niche technology. Why? 0 0 1
SyncToBlog #14 Just a little more on cloud Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Just a few randoms on cloud I bumped into: Blogger Jeremy Geelan has come up with the Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem and the Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing. Windows Azure Security ... SyncToBlog #14 Just a little more on cloud 0 0 0
How to organize your desktop and keep it that way Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 I’ve been using a utility for the last couple of years that organizes my desktop – Stardock Fences – and I was going to write up a review saying how cool and useful it is. However, others have already ... How to organize your desktop and keep it that way 0 0 1
Explorer context menu to create a blank Visual Studio solution Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Starting a new Visual Studio solution through the IDE is offen too complex and time wasting. Other programs allows per default to create a blank document with the explorer context menu. Why not offer this ... Explorer context menu to create a blank Visual Studio solution 0 0 0
NCTC Fall Gala 2010 Brian Lanham, January 1, 0001 I attended the NCTC Fall Gala last night at the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center. My company just joined and we sponsored a table. Chris Atienza and his wife as well as Jessica Taylor attended with ... NCTC Fall Gala 2010 0 0 0
Running Android 2.2 (Frodo) on your HD2 Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Running Android 2.2 (Frodo) on your HD2While my HD2 was away getting fixed I had to slum it using an Android phone from Vodafone. It was a small cheap Vodafone 845 running Android 2.1 and you ... Running Android 2.2 (Frodo) on your HD2 0 0 3
Google Search tips & tricks Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 Over the course of using Google for the past ten years, I’ve found several tips and tricks to using the search engine. This post covers the ones that I’ve found most useful. Limit your search to one site ... Google Search tips & tricks 0 0 0
The ObjectID _id When Updating Entities in MongoDb Mohammad Azam, January 1, 0001 The ObjectID is assigned to each document when the document is persisted in the MongoDb database. The ObjectID is a unique ID to distinguish between different documents. The ObjectID is kept in the field/attribute ... The ObjectID _id When Updating Entities in MongoDb 0 0 1
RIM Shot andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Long ago, in the mid and late-90s, the mobile device market was a bit different from today’s. Palm led the PDA category, with monochrome devices that operated offline, until the Palm VII and its ultra-slow ... RIM Shot 0 0 0
IE9 Chrome Charles Young, January 1, 0001 It was always obvious that IE9 was going to get new chrome. Why else publish the technical previews with a mocked-up UI? The very fact that the IE team has cleanly separated the core browser technology ... IE9 Chrome 0 0 2
Remote Debugging mit Visual Studio Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Das Debuggen einer Applikation auf einem Rechner ohne installiertes Visual Studio gestaltet sich mit dem Remote Debugging Monitor relativ einfach. Derartige Konstellationen ergeben sich insbesondere dann, ... Remote Debugging mit Visual Studio 0 0 4
Global SVN Ignore Patterns und Zeitstempel-Optionen Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Globale Konfiguration Die setzt man unter den globalen SVN-Einstellungen. Diese öffnet man per kontextsensitiven Menü im Explorer: Global Ignores Standard *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a ... Global SVN Ignore Patterns und Zeitstempel-Optionen 0 0 0
Herding Code Talks About Nu Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Dru and I were recently featured on Herding Code Podcast. In the podcast we talk about everything from package management in general to Nubular (Nu) to other package management systems (OpenWrap, Bricks, ... Herding Code Talks About Nu 0 0 2
Thoughts on Android and iPhone Development Ryan Cain, January 1, 0001 Over the past few months I had the great opportunity to tackle the challenge of learning both the iPhone and Android mobile platforms for the first time as a developer. I had used both previously as a ... Thoughts on Android and iPhone Development 0 0 7
Javascript Composite UIs Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 Increasingly I find myself building web applications that rarely, if ever, reload the page. Ajax is used to communicate with the server and to update parts of the page as required. After much trial and ... Javascript Composite UIs 0 0 0
Recovering a Failed SQL Server Database From Running out of Disk ... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Just had a SQL Server 2005 database completely becoming unavailable after the drive on which its files were residing on completely ran out of space (thanks god in development). Freeing some space turned ... Recovering a Failed SQL Server Database From Running out of Disk ... 0 0 1
St. Louis Day of .Net 2010 Eric Brown, January 1, 0001 Well, the 2010 St. Louis Day of .Net is over. It was a great conference with over 680 attendees. I presented two topics this year and have made the presentations and source code available. Thing Every ... St. Louis Day of .Net 2010 0 0 0
Google Search, Get a better Page Rank TJ, January 1, 0001 Google uses something called a page rank to determine your position on the search page. To get a better Google Page Rank, there are a couple of key objects Google looks at. The first and most important ... Google Search, Get a better Page Rank 0 0 0
Windows Live Sync on Mac Ryan Cain, January 1, 0001 I've been running various versions of Live Mesh and Live Sync on my Mac over the past year. So far I haven't been terribly happy with Live Mesh, but it got the job done, albeit very slowly at times. I'm ... Windows Live Sync on Mac 0 0 8
St. Louis Day of .Net Ralph Wheaton, January 1, 0001 Well, the presentation at Day of .Net was a success. I had over 50 attendees at my session on System.Diagnostics, some very good questions and I hope some good things will come out of the talk. For those ... St. Louis Day of .Net 0 0 0
Materials for the St. Louis Day of .NET 2010 presentations - part... Muljadi Budiman, January 1, 0001 Finished my session on Asynchronous Adventures in Silverlight an hour ago, and I'm putting up the presentation files. The session is Asynchronous Adventures in Silverlight. Since there are enough sessions ... Materials for the St. Louis Day of .NET 2010 presentations - part... 0 0 0
Materials for the St. Louis Day of .NET 2010 presentations - part... Muljadi Budiman, January 1, 0001 I'm going to be giving a presentation for the St. Louis Day of .NET 2010 - TODAY! Worked out my materials for the first 2 sessions, for those that are interested, they can download the materials: The first ... Materials for the St. Louis Day of .NET 2010 presentations - part... 0 0 0
The Growth of Mobile Ryan Cain, January 1, 0001 In the past few months I've had the great opportunity to learn both the iPhone and Android platforms for an App we built for my 9 to 5 job. This was a great new chance to learn brand new languages and ... The Growth of Mobile 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2010 -- #927 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Brian Noyes, Rudi Grobler, Benjamin Gavin, Walter Ferrari, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Wilcox(-2-), David Anson, Jeremy Likness, and Manuel Felício. Shoutout: Cigdem Patlak ... Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2010 -- #927 0 0 0
Calendar syncing Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 I’ve been syncing my calendars for years. If you’re interested in why I am using Google, then read the history section, otherwise skip down to the how to section of this post. History For past six years ... Calendar syncing 0 0 1
Capturing Nature Through Lens Mohammad Azam, January 1, 0001 I think most of the programmers have this disease of keeping them self busy with work and I am no exception. Several months ago I was interested in gardening and spent most of the time growing my vegetables. ... Capturing Nature Through Lens 0 0 2
An alternative repository Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 Since I published the state of my project goals, I got a few questions about my repository implementation, so here goes… The ‘classic’ repository interface looks like this: public interface IRepository<T> ... An alternative repository 0 0 6
Linq error: MSDTC on server 'servername' is unavailable Sglima, January 1, 0001 Occasionally an application that I am working on throws the above error... After trying to fix my code for a bit, and not finding the problem I googled a bit and discovered that this error is caused by ... Linq error: MSDTC on server 'servername' is unavailable 0 0 0
What is Windows Phone 7? dotgeek, January 1, 0001 For me, its the smart phone that really speaks to me. When news about this device came out this past February and they showed off the interface and what was planned, I had a huge smile on my face and said, ... What is Windows Phone 7? 0 0 0
Cloud Platform Vendors Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 Cloud services platforms are still in their infancy considering the size of the market, but big players like Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and Google have made significant investments for the future in offering ... Cloud Platform Vendors 0 0 10