Archive for November 2006
links for 2006-11-30
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.NET Webservice Studio is a tool to invoke webmethods interactively. The user can provide a WSDL endpoint. On clicking button Get the tool fetches the WSDL, generates .NET proxy from the WSDL and displays the list of methods available. The user can choose
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The NMVP Framework is a framework for helping in building Model-View-Presenter (MVP) based UI architectures.
links for 2006-11-28
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The language Joy is a purely functional programming language. Whereas all other functional programming languages are based on the application of functions to arguments, Joy is based on the composition of functions.
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Of all the complexity literature–Arthur, Kaufman, et al–I’ve found this the most meaningful. And the use of the Game of Life to illustrate the emergence of the complex is beautifully done.
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An author’s commentary on what it as like to write his book (a computer book in this case, but he has written another).
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photo.net started out in 1993 as Philip Greenspun’s home page at MIT. We are now a group of more than 100,000 photographers working to help each other become better.
links for 2006-11-27
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…from the above SqlServer Books Online topic, where wildcards are explained
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PNG is the only common file format with full alpha channel support and widespread tool support. It’s the recommended format for storing RibbonX images.
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“In effect, USDA is sanctioning an ‘approval-by-contamination’ policy that can only increase the likelihood of untested genetically engineered crops entering the food supply in the future,” he said.
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The increasingly popular virtual world Second Life was overwhelmed by a flood of “self-replicating” objects, dubbed “grey goo”, on Sunday.
links for 2006-11-24
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Videos, etc.
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We looked at cities and towns with easy access to popular outdoor activities. We came up with a list of ten that rated high not only in closeness to outdoor activities, but also offered a balance of the best in education, housing, jobs, health, and arts a
links for 2006-11-20
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In this article there is very little about the climate, weather patterns or the physical and chemical properties of the atmosphere. That is because our understanding of what is predictable and unpredictable comes from an underlying knowledge of the genera
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This article will only cover indirect measures such as tree ring data, lake sediments, bones, and ice cores, although other sources are used. Unless otherwise stated this information comes from a special issue of the Quaternary Science Review. I would lik
links for 2006-11-19
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Here is a list of swimming events that are expected to be televised.
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So you’re new to Scheme and want to learn this wonderful programming language? You found your place. Look at the following pages to get started, or read howto-learn-scheme for an overview.
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These are all topics which have a CookbookForm with a TopicType of Recipe. See also ParentTopics. This list is generated automatically.
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But, despite the occasional new red flag — and the fact that caffeinated coffee does cause real sleeping problems for many people — most of the scientific news on coffee these days is downright sunny.
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Though coffee has traditionally gotten a bad health rap, scientists are now saying it can actually reduce the chances of developing illnesses such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
links for 2006-11-18
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2006 Univ Texas Swimming Invitational
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Book review.
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Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving
links for 2006-11-17
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The Dvorak keyboard, named for its inventor, Dr. August Dvorak, was designed with the goal of maximizing typing efficiency. For over a century, typists have been using the qwerty keyboard arrangement, a hack that was implemented to work around the mechani
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With the aid of some interesting parsing techniques, I have devised a typing course which, much like the tutors of the QWERTY keyboard, starts you out on the home rows and gradually has you learning the entire keyboard. With a Dvorak keyboard, you can typ
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No, it’s not another file format. We have re-christened Windows Media Photo as HD Photo. We’ve listened closely to the feedback from our partners and customers, and in response, we have made some important changes, including this new name.
links for 2006-11-16
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Downloading Open-Source Software
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On this site you can add content to VS 2005 documentation topics and edit contributions from other users. Our goal is to extend the documentation with code examples, tips and tricks, and other information that you add. To learn more about this site, che
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A number of chemical reactions occur during this process, during which the beans change from their original pale green to a golden yellow, then orange, and eventually a deep, chocolate brown.
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the First Annual Convention of Quality Peruvian Coffee, but there are plenty of convincing reasons for a green coffee buyer to be in Peru, and I marvel at the untapped potential that exists.
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The meteors are expected to reach peak intensity around 0445 GMT on Sunday (2345 EST on Saturday). The most intense part of the shower will last only a few hours.
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The 3rd (and final) approach is also simple. This requires copying some code into your page. This approach does not require an .xml file in your project to give you the schema. Rather it uses code to retrieve the XML structure and styling (XSL) dynamicall
links for 2006-11-15
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Generate and Download Animated Progress Indicators for Free… Nothing to install!
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Of course, finding the proper downloads means dealing with the ever-shifting and hopelessly confusing MSDN web site.
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A significant page that seems focused on .NET is this one:
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Imagine this: you type in a table name in SQL Server Management Studio, press Ctrl+9 and get all rows from that table displayed in the results pane. Or you press Ctrl+8 and instead of data rows, you get metadata about columns of that table.
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Perhaps it’s because sending error info to the server has been challenging in the past, or may be it’s because some developers are just not aware that JavaScript does have exception handling support…
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More progress indicators
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From within Internet Explorer, click on Tools and then on Internet Options. Now click on the Advanced tab, and under the Browser section make sure Enable Install On Demand (Internet Explorer) and enable Install On Demand (other) are not checked. This wou
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Both, BizTalk server and .NET Windows Workflow Foundation (WinWF) provide design tools to build a process workflow. So, what product/technology is right for you? Below are some questions I go through when making such decision on my projects.
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[converted to Unicode] Did you know that the “best practiceâ€� in terms of font sizes is to use em not px? Interested? Then read on…
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Welcome to System.Diagnostics.TraceSource class. TraceSource class allows you, for example, to output trace messages for one class but not another.
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There are several reasons that could cause a query or updates to take longer then expected. This could be due to network issues or it could even be due to the database design itself, but most of the time slow running queries are caused due to:
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Agile Manifesto (http://AgileManifesto.org):
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
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Now, the answer to the question on the topic line is “No”. Yes, they both make it possible to create parameterized types which make it possible to create type safe collections. But
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The only “gotcha” is that those columns must be full-text indexed
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As a rule of thumb, make a best guestimate on the resulting object size, and initialize the StringBuilder with the double of that.
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The ?? operator defines the default value to be returned when a nullable type is assigned to a non-nullable type.
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Eliminate the impedance mismatch between data models and between languages that application developers would otherwise have to deal with new features available in the upcoming version of ADO.NET.
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The Immediate window is used at design time to debug and evaluate expressions, execute statements, print variable values, and so forth. It allows you to enter expressions to be evaluated or executed by the development language during debugging. To display
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Did you know that you can design complex web pages without a single table by using cascading style sheets? Generally, this type of design results in smaller (as measured in downloaded bytes) pages, and (arguably as, if not more, importantly) pages that a
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For example, the following “pullout quote” could be done by applying a simple style
