In my last tutorial about VirtualBox (the free virtualization software from Sun Microsystems) I offered a solution to fix the USB support, a problem that I think is fixed now, but... I have recently encountered another issue: sharing folders with a Windows 7 guest machine!

There has been an increase in interest in Software Katas of late. What is all this buzz about, and why might it be important? Several years ago (Pragmatic) Dave Thomas started a special blog about coding katas. The idea was simple: Professionals practice.

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Mr2001 writes "Consumerist reports that Apple is refusing to work on computers that have been used in smoking households. 'The Apple store called and informed me that due to the computer having been used in a house where there was smoking, [the warranty has been voided] and they refuse to work on the machine "due to health risks of second hand ...

As I approach the end of my first year blogging this post today is the most excited I have been as I start writing since the ‘Creating a revolution in SharePoint User Adoption’ (this blog post is still read twice as much as any other). The SharePoint Team at Twynham School have been working hard on the development of an Online Options ...

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There are several photo-stitchers available for Mac (and several for iPhone as well), and most do a stellar job for stitching together 3-4 images into a panoramic image. However, I recently completed a project that required stitching together hundreds of images into some very large panoramas of several locations around beautiful Peoria, Illinois. ...

Eating is believing: Dan Lepard's flash loaf is ready in the blink of an eye… well, almost. Photograph: Colin Campbell How do you make crusty bread in less than two hours, from mixing to cooling, without it tasting blah? With lots of yeast, some grated potato, wholemeal flour and a dash of vinegar, that's how. Timing is essential here, so stay ...

Ruth's Chris' Sweet Potato Casserole is one of the holiday's most sought after dishes. Chef Pat Gallagher of Ruth's Chris in Metairie unveils the secrets to this holiday treat.

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system," Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote in 1932, "that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." The Obama Administration is taking unprecedented strides ...

It may sound daunting, but making your own cheese is not that hard. Soft cheeses are the best introduction to cheesemaking, because they don’t require the molding or pressing that semisoft and hard cheeses do. And

Matt Yonkovit has started a series of posts on Tokyo Tyrant at Percona's MySQL Performance Blog. Great in-depth analysis of the reliability and performance of TT.

I often play Rock Band with my friends, but we have a tough time deciding who will play what part and for how long. Here is what we've come up with as requirements

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Je suis tombé via un tweet sur cette présentation de Rodd Lucier, ancien enseignant reconverti dans le consulting elearning, qui nous présente les 10 tendances de l’apprentissage 2.0, ou comment nous enseignerons demain.

It begins high above Union Square in San Francisco and by the time it ends, nearly three minutes later, the opening shot of Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 film, "The Conversation", will hone in on one as-yet-unidentified man.

If your crippling ennui is such that you can’t even decide between a Seven-Layer Burrito and a Quad Stacker, Eating the Road has an amusing flowchart that should help you navigate the bevy of fast-food options. It's based on queries like “Are you drunk?” and “Are you drunk on malt liquor?” Kudos to the site for ...

Radiation exposures from diagnostic medical examinations are generally low and are almost always justified by the benefits of accurate diagnosis of possible disease conditions. There is no direct evidence of radiation ever causing any harm at the exposure levels encountered with diagnostic radiological examinations. Therapeutic uses of radiation ...

The current system for getting royalty payments to musicians in the United States is seriously hampering the introduction of new, innovative music distribution models, and that problem is not going to get any better in the era of the digital download, leading music experts said Thursday.

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Good indexes are the key to good performance in SQL Server and the key to creating good indexes is to understand what indexes are and how SQL Server uses them to evaluate queries.

MySpace has settled a year-long row with independent record companies with a landmark deal that will allow artists including Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire Weekend to sell tracks on the social networking site's music service.

Have you ever cooked with Fuyu persimmons? I'd never even tasted them until a few days ago when a huge box of persimmons arrived in the mail! They were from Andrea of Rookie Cookery, who had offered to send me some when I confessed on Twitter that I hadn't ever eaten them. Thanks Andrea! I really like the subtle, not too sweet flavor of Fuyu ...

Facebook has just added a new photo uploader tool to their Prototypes directory, the "labs" section of the social network where new programs are released for testing prior to their public rollout. The uploader dramatically improves on what was previously one of the worst experiences on Facebook: adding photos. Despite the fact that Facebook hosts ...

Bill Moyers considers a President's decision to escalate troop levels in a military conflict. Through LBJ's taped phone conversations and his own remembrances, Bill Moyers looks at Johnson's deliberations as he stepped up America's role in Vietnam. Explore a multimedia timeline.

A man is driving down the Schuylkill Expressway (pronounced “Sure-kill”, but that’s its own joke) — a man is driving down the Schuylkill Expressway, and traffic is worse than ever. People honking, flashing their lights at him, the works.

Roll up! Roll up! As Wooden Toy Quarterly has a special announcement. A recent feature was changed around in the next instalment of THE MUSIC EDITION paving the way for a new Art Gallery of Sorts. There are 8 spots (pages) available and they are inviting all budding designers, artists and illustrators to submit a non-published new work of art ...

For all those Linux users who envy Windows 7 multi-touch, here is some good news. From now, Linux too has support for multi-touch just like windows. The multi-touch feature has been developed by the Interactive Computing Lab team in ENAC, France and has been introduced into the 2.6.30 Linux Kernel. See the video:

Michael Robertson on iTunes: "Mark my words they will go down and the rest of the world will catch them and surpass them. We've seen this before."

This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 23.34 GMT on Friday 20 November 2009. A version appeared on p1 of the Top stories section of the Guardian on Saturday 21 November 2009.

An anti-Obama bumper-sticker slogan which seems to urge people to pray for an end to the President’s days (in office?). “There’s a hilarious new meme in the wingnut sectors of the internet,” Gawker announced:

Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) basic link building for blogs begins with listing them in blog directories.

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Once you've caught the 'electronics bug', spending time away from the workbench/lab can seem an unpleasant prospect. Luckily, one can carry on learning and experimenting with a minimal amount of hardware. Nick shares his own recipe for ultra-compact electronics prototyping - the Altoids Tin Electronics LabThis is a small electronics lab in an ...

A longitudinal study of thousands of US hospitals suggests that increasing the levels of medical IT may modestly improve the quality of treatment, but it doesn't actually help with costs, and may even make things worse in the short run as the current US healthcare economy is subverting any benefits it might otherwise provide.

By Binny V A • Feb 16th, 2009 • Category: Blogging, Google, SEO, Web Development, WordPress The new talk of the SEO world is ‘Canonical URL‘. What is canonical URL? This is the definition given in Google’s Webmaster Central Blog…

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Whether you are a teacher at a grade school or work at a Fortune 500 company we have all heard the stories of educators being removed or suspended for inappropriate posts on their Facebook profile.  So, the question stands, can you take advantage of the educational opportunity provided by a social network like Facebook without running the ...

Harry Potter y Amy Winehouse son realidades demodés. En Inglaterra, el cogollito está ahora en las provincias (esas que terminan en shire) y lo que se lleva es el sexo anónimo al aire libre. Daniel Davies lo revela en su novela La isla de los perros, el éxito incómodo de 2009.

Following your passion can be a tough thing. But figuring out what that passion is can be even more elusive. I’m lucky — I’ve found my passion, and I’m living it. I can testify that it’s the most wonderful thing, to be able to make a living doing what you love.

The lies of Sarah Palin are different from any other politicians'. They are different because they assert things that are demonstrably, empirically untrue; and they are different because once they have been deonstrated to the entire world that they are untrue, Palin keeps repeating them as if they still were true or refuses to acknowledge that ...

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Maven is the logical first place to start. If you don't have maven installed, then do it. Choose a top level folder for your project (mine is c:\dev\springpersitence\gallery) and run mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.smartpants.artwork -DartifactId=gallery to create the project. (You can switch your groupId to match com.yourcompany.project). ...

““Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda, Star Wars (Pardon my geekiness for a minute…I always hear Yoda’s voice in my head when I am talking about social media angst.)

What will solve climate change? Will it be technology? Policy? A growing number of researchers and activists say it's what's behind it all: people. And understanding them is vital to addressing climate change.

SquareTradeの新しい統計によると、3年間で故障する割合がAsus、Toshibaが一番少ないんです。一方HPは1/4のラップトップがなんらかの故障をするとか。

It's not all that exciting to think about, but what happens to your online bank account, email, Facebook account, blog, and the rest of your online presence when you cease to be?

My radio pal Hugh Hewitt said to me on the air the other day that Barack Obama “doesn’t know how to be president.” It was a low but effective crack and I didn’t pay it much heed. But, after musing on it over the last week or so, it seems to me frighteningly literally true. I don’t just mean social lapses like his ...

I meant to experiment with version 2.0 of the Salt and Pepper Roasted Tofu. But since I had a leek to use up, I went with a black bean sauce and threw the poor leek in the sauce.

There are several undocumented system stored procedures and extended stored procedures in SQL Server 2005 which can be of enormous use. Since they are undocumented, it can be risky to rely upon them. There is always the possibility that they will be dropped or altered, which can be worse, with the next version of SQL Server or even the next ...

I have already said enough about Photoshop being the ultimate software for graphic and web designers in my previous posts. So to add to our Photoshop tutorials I posted before, here’s an ultimate list of 85 tutorials to create various light effects that can be used for several purposes.

When I try and validate the PHP I get an error: ‘Errors parsing -’ (with no further error details). If I click ‘Go to line’ nothing happens…

Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it.

Whether you seek help with a job search or tips on climbing the corporate ladder, this archive of articles will help you manage your career at every level.

Tonight I made one of my favorite soups, a thick sweet potato soup made fiery and smoky with chipotles. I make this soup often in the cold-weather months, but for some reason I’ve never shared it with you. Well that’s about to change.

Before Sarah Palin's book, "Going Rogue," was released to the public, the Associated Press published a much-heralded fact check that detailed where her claims didn't line up with reality. It was possible in part because the AP snagged a copy of Palin's book early.

Since you're going to spend your time clicking around the Internet anyway, why not do it with StumbleUpon? Let them show you everything, including that one site where the Asian girl's eyes follow the mouse. Go. Right now.

Risk-aversion is a natural human trait, and it's one that gets amplified in times of trouble. Given we're all suffering through an exceptionally difficult economy, this is one of those times many of us feel like pulling in our horns and toughing the tough patch out.

The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe, lie one above the other on steel racks inside a giant freezer in Detroit’s central mortuary, like discarded shoes in the back of a wardrobe.

Once you’ve got a chart or site map put together, SlickPlan offers you a few different options on what you can do with it. Most importantly, you can save it and work on it later. You can also save multiple versions of a project. By opening up individual projects, you can access an HTML embed code that allows you to add your chart to other ...

There are many books and articles on typography, but considerably few explore typeface selection and pairing. With the floodgates poised to open and the promise of many typefaces being freed up for use on websites, choosing the right face to complement a website’s design will need to become another notch in the designer’s belt. But ...

Hackers 'expose global warming con': Sceptics claim leaked emails reveal researchers massaged temperature data Get us out of here now or the pirates will kill us: British yacht couple captured by Somali gunmen make desperate plea

The remains of victims that were allegedly kidnapped and killed by a criminal gang in the jungle of Peru for human fat trafficking. Photograph: National Police Of Peru/EPA

No, not that kind of validation, though I do think you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and doggone it, people like you. Rather, I want to cover building a custom validation attribute using the base classes available in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. ASP.NET MVC 2 has built-in support for data annotation validation attributes for ...

In July of 2003, Jeremy Brown, a.k.a. DJ Reset, took apart a song. Using digital software, Brown isolated instrumental elements of “Debra,” a song by Beck from his 1999 album “Midnite Vultures.” Brown, who is thirty-three and has studied with Max Roach, adjusted the tempo of “Debra” and added live drums and ...

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When an emotional Mac developer wrote a lengthy e-mail about an issue to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the multi-billionaire responded succinctly via his iPhone.

One thing that strikes me about Chrome OS and Litl is that neither bother trying to do everything Windows or Mac OS X can do. Not even close. I don’t think either even bothers trying to serve as one’s primary computer.

The urge to write longer things makes blogging more considered and therefore harder. Some would say that's a good thing. Filtering out the chaff. I'm not sure. For me, blogging is about momentum and 'more considered' makes momentum harder. Interesting things emerged from the less filtered rush of words. I enjoyed blogging because ...

It's November and at A Veggie Venture, that means it's time to explore new Thanksgiving recipes! This year, I'm adding a new set of recipes to the 2009 edition of my collection of Thanksgiving vegetable recipes, vegetarian entrées, main dishes to inspire all who gather at the Thanksgiving table. Look for more vegetarian options all month ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google unveiled new technologies on Thursday that will automatically bring text captions to many videos on the site.

We are proud to announce the release of the new version of Xmap - The sitemap generator for Joomla!. This version fixes some small errors in the... Read more...

What follows is a frankly massive essay in note form. These are the notes I made to justify the aims of Bauhaus Ideology and the Future of Web Design - a presentation I did for the FOWD Tour in Leeds, September 2009. Thus, there is a vast array of ideas, conclusions and speculations with regard to the future of our industry. Take it with a pinch ...

Here are the slides, the audio recording and my notes for the keynote of the full frontal conference held yesterday in Brighton, England. It was a blast, thank you Remy and Julie!

For a few years at this point, I’ve written about Brands Worth of a Weekend - where the weekend in question is a one for enthusiasts to come together and bond with the people behind their passion brands.  Meanwhile, Influencer Events - where influentual bloggers/tweeters and the like are invited to spend a day or two having a brand ...

It’s a scene familiar to any fan of war movies: old sarge is pacing the new recruits’ barracks, heels clicking on the floor, his eyes bulging as he inspects the soldiers’ bunks.  Tension fills the air; the men break out in a sweat. He checks to make sure each man’s uniform is just right, his boots are shined, and his ...

British forces will pull out of Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the Allied victory in World War Two, as part of a Tory defence "revolution" being drawn up by Dr Liam Fox.

Well we as human beings marry real human beings. But this case is very much different. A game named Love Plus is the reason behind this unusual bonding between a real guy and a 2D virtual girl. While playing the game, a guy met one of the virtual girls named Nene Anegasaki and fell in love with her. The gentleman’s interest grew so big that ...

Hoare logic / Gray code at the pediatrician's office / Haskell logo fail / A child is bitten by a dog every 0.07 seconds... / Periodicity / No flimping / Bipartite matching and same-sex marriage / "Known to Man" and the advent of the space aliens / Product types in Java / Most annoying phrase known to man? / Worst error messages this month / ...

It’s a question we hear a lot. And for good reason: either way, you’re still marketing to a human being – right? That’s the advice given:  Instead of thinking B2B vs B2C, just think “human” said Chris Brogan.

It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and that means family traditions. But what if your family doesn’t really have any, or you simply want to start your own new ones? This might be the year where it’s your turn to up the heat and put together a Thanksgiving feast. With social media and the web, we’re lucky to have everything ...

The BBC Director-General, Mark Thompson, has discussed the concept of public space and the way in which the BBC continues to cultivate its role within that space, in a lecture hosted by the Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford.

Every day million people make use of Google products and these products are written mainly using one well known language: JavaScript! What makes this online software stable, fast and responsive is a good use of the language and an excellent system of data compression and asynchronous loading. Today this power is available to everyone, since ...

A new mix album of mine was released this week. I'm told it is in stores, Google reveals sites in Romania and the Netherlands who've pirated it already, and you can purchase it online, legally, in a variety of digital formats. We've got options. Ethics -- or is that ease-of-use? -- guide music consumers in the 21st century. Full disclosure: The ...

After reading my new blog, a number of our Thomas Nelson employees have told me they intend to start their own blog. Several have written to me, asking how to get started. So, rather than continuing to repeat myself, I will outline the process here. It’s actually easier than you may think.

Recently, I’ve had a couple emails from readers explaining that their problem is simply having too many passions. Far from being members of the apathetic masses, these people seem to have difficulty focusing because there are simply so many things to be interested about.

I haven't played too much with ASP.NET 3.5's new LinqDataSource control yet - so I figured it was about time I did a little research and checked it out. Typically, I like to document my research by creating a small prototype application focused on a handful of the new features that I am investigating. I find building a reference application is ...

Parents, romantic partners and roommates of America: I am not encouraging your child, partner or person you share living space with to do this. At least, not in your good microwave. They should buy their own for this sort of thing. And for the love of Pete, they should wear protective eye covering.

You may not be away of bookmarklets which are an underused tool in web designer or developer’s toolbox. A bookmarklet is a a term that merges bookmark and applet to add functionality to a web browser. They can be stored in the bookmark bar of any browser and used from there to perform useful tasks and consist primarily of Javascript code.

A study in the American Journal of Botany finds that plants can tell if they're next to a relative and will grow to allow the kin more access to light. Cynthia Graber reports.

Newspapers, newsmagazines, and broadcast-news outlets are drastically cutting staff members, bureaus, page counts, and news holes—that is, when they're not simply going out of business. The Chronicle Review asked some prominent thinkers on issues of education, communications, and news and cultural literacy how the decline of those news ...

It has become common in modern JavaScript programming to use functions as namespaces. If you put your code inside a function, then your variables and functions are local to the containing function and do not clutter up the global scope.

Cal Newport, a post-doc at MIT who writes the blog Study Hacks, has an interesting method of getting important work done. He calls it "fixed-schedule productivity."

Continental Airlines Inc. said Thursday it matched a move by other carriers to raise surcharges for travel on a few peak days in March and April to $30 each way. Full story

Have an old t-shirt or skirt lying around? With little more than a pair of scissors and a sewing machine, you can turn your old clothes into a nifty wine tote for that bottle of Merlot you're giving to mom.

It has been a pleasure reading your tips/secrets/suggestions/hints/guides/lists for the last 3 months. I have learned so much. Although I may have elements in my posts that already meet your guidelines, none are quite as thorough, so it is always valuable to keep your emails handy.

A group representing artists and record labels reached a royalty-fee agreement with music Web sites, ending a two-year battle and removing a cloud from over online radio.

My last post covered the current UI virtualization support on Silverlight and WPF. In this post, I will discuss another technique that helps improve performance when dealing with large data sets: data virtualization.

A Windows user confession: Make LIRC on Ubuntu manage your HTPC + making suspend-to-ram work properly As the topic says; I am a Windows user. I been using the XBMC on Xbox1 for many years. Since the hardware on Xbox does not handle the new “HD-thing”, I started to find a replacement. This is my recipe that forced me to learn some basic Linux ...