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Top 40 must-have Blu-ray Discs

David Carnoy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:13:00 PST

Check out CNET's roundup of must-have Blu-rays to show off your home theater. We'll be updating our picks as new discs come out. Originally posted at Fully Equipped (Read on Source)

Installing Windows in VirtualBox

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:04:30 GMT

I had to install Windows for someone who needed Office (for a specific thing). So I installed VirtualBox on his Karmic PC and created a VM. When the Hard Disk dialog came up, I choose 3 GB thinking it's only Windows + Office without data... Boy was I wrong. (Read on Source)

Apple hits back at Verizon in new iPhone ads

Joshua Topolsky — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:19:00 EST

Now look, we're not saying we know for sure that Apple thinks Verizon's latest round of merciless attack ads on its device and US carrier are worth responding to, but these latest iPhone spots would certainly suggest it. A new campaign launching tonight focuses on the iPhone's ability to carry voice and data simultaneously on AT&T's network, ... (Read on Source)

You Don’t Have to Be An Administrator to Run Remote PowerShell Commands

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:23:00 GMT

I was just read blog entry which complained about having to have administrative access to execute PowerShell commands against a remote server. This is not the case. (Read on Source)

Microsoft responds to Bing boycott over Chinese search results

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:30:19 +0000

Microsoft, responding to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's call for boycotting Bing, says its search engine contains a bug that makes its image search return pro-Communist results when performed in Simplified Chinese. (Read on Source)

Stepping Over the Lines: They Bleed For Us

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:26:40 PST

And so the band of eight were herded into downtown, for a shot in front of a double-decker London bus. They collectively looked a bit sheepish and slouching, and you would too, given those suits someone decreed they should be wearing. Didn’t they use to distribute suits like this to guys on their way out of prison, along with five quid in ... (Read on Source)

How do I move a table from one schema to another in SQL Server?

This should work for SQL Server 2005/2008-- ALTER SCHEMA SchemaNameForTarget TRANSFER SchemaNameOfSource.MyTableName example: ALTER SCHEMA RiskEvaluation TRANSFER dbo.ConvertibleDebenture (Read on Source)

Silverlight4 Beta Availability for Developers

Dpeuswr — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:01:29 GMT

Silverlight 4 Beta Information Earlier this week at PDC09 in Los Angeles we unveiled a Beta version Silverlight 4. This latest version delivers hundreds of features and controls that, when combined with the continued innovation in Microsoft’s world-class tools for designers and developers — Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression ... (Read on Source)

AppendTo Aims To Commercialize jQuery Javascript Library

Nik Cubrilovic — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:17:38 +0000

jQuery is a Javascript library that is used in a large number of web applications and is popular amongst web application developers. It was launched in 2006 by John Resig , and immediately gained a large following due to its lightweight nature and design philosophy. jQuery allows developers to build Javascript web applications easily by ... (Read on Source)

Yankees Prospect Profile #28: Romulo Sanchez, RHP

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:27:31 -0800

Background: Romulo Sanchez was signed as an undrafted free agent out of Venezuela by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2002, and he debuted in the Dominican Summer League that year as an 18-year-old. When Sanchez was released by the Dodgers before the 2004 season, the Pittsburgh Pirates picked him up. Being a pitcher in the Pirates system is always a ... (Read on Source)

Lunch time reading

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:23:22 -0800

Volkswagen's been chatting with the IZOD IndyCar Series on possibly joining the open-wheel league as an engine manufacturer, but it's apparently keeping its options open. (Read on Source)

Live Microphone: Vinny Cerrato

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:23:22 -0800

“And I think what happens–and kind of what [Clayton] talked about, and what happened to us the previous year–starting the second half you see it because guys start to get hurt.” (Read on Source)

Video: Roku Launches Channel Store with Facebook Photos, Pandora and More

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:01:00 GMT

Roku vice president of marketing Chuck Seiber only gave us a teeny-tiny sneak-peek at the new Roku Channel Store at NewTeeVee Live couple weeks back, but the company officially launched the feature along with ten new free channels today. (Read on Source)

Joel on Software

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:03:45 GMT

Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful things so that people can do stuff. He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has two favorite tools: duct tape and WD-40. And he ... (Read on Source)

Victory Monday Bonus: Megan Strikes Back!

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:55:08 +0000

If you recall, on Friday I wrote about how Olivia was making a serious run at Megan for the title of Official FN Girl (and Official Imaginary Girlfriend of The Dude). Well, as you can plainly see, it seems that Megan is not going down without a fight. In fact, she’s coming out guns blazing and shooting people’s faces off with her ... (Read on Source)

Building VMs out of the downloadable Win2k8R2 vhds

Vslmblg — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:06:42 GMT

This posts walks you through how to create VMs from the Win2K8R2 vhds you can download from here. If you are an SCVMM / Hyper-V expert, you can skip this section. Launch the downloaded exe C:\vmimages> "Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation (Full Edition).exe" Extract the image to your MSSCVMMLibrary and make two copies (one ... (Read on Source)

Amazingly Compassionate Sun Employees!

Valerie Anne Fenwick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Last month, tragedy struck a member of the Sun family, a woman who is a member of my building's custodial staff. She lost her son in a tragic manner and suddenly found herself in a position that no mother should be in: she had to bury her own child. He was only 23 years old. It turns out that a burial plot, services and a coffin are not all ... (Read on Source)

Publish to SharePoint

Clint Covington — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:33:12 GMT

Today’s guest writer is Ric Lewis—the PM in charge of publishing to SharePoint. A common question in the Access community is “how do I get my app on the web?” Here is the most recent example : My wife and I have just started our own Recruitment business and I started an Access DB to basically be a contact manager and to track our jobs, ... (Read on Source)

The State of Cloud: Startup Heroku Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

Om Malik — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:30:19 +0000

Heroku, the San Francisco-based startup that offers a Ruby-focused cloud platform as a service, last week saw the number of apps deployed on its platform top 40,000, according to CEO Byron Sebastian. He joined the company after stints at BEA, EMC and most recently, SourceLabs, where he replaced co-founder James Lindenbaum as CEO. [...] (Read on Source)

Channel9 Interviews and Demos

SharePointToolsBlog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:01:00 GMT

The Visual Studio Team has been releasing a series of Channel 9 interviews and demos on the new SharePoint tools in Visual Studio 2010. Please check them out and give us your feedback! Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Feature and Package ... (Read on Source)

Source: New Orleans Saints to sign veteran cornerback Mike McKenzie

Adam Schefter — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:43:13 PST

The Saints now are planning to sign former cornerback Mike McKenzie, according to a source close to the situation. (Read on Source)

Washington Redskins running back Ladell Betts out for season with torn ACL, MCL

Associated Press — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:28:09 PST

Redskins backup running back Ladell Betts has been diagnosed with two torn ligaments in the knee he injured Sunday and will miss the rest of the season. (Read on Source)

Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 1

Plblum — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:23:00 GMT

Since a major goal of Dynamic Data is to separate the business logic from the user interface, let’s look at a few areas where these concepts still blend and their alternatives. Today we look at the… UIHintAttribute Attributes like System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.UIHintAttribute are placed on the properties of your Entity class. That’ ... (Read on Source)

TestAPI 0.4 Released

Llester — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:19:00 GMT

TestAPI has come out with a new release V0.4. Please do check it out. So what’s new: Deep Object Comparison utility Text String Generation for random interesting combination of strings A Leak Detection API that enables the user to determine if the application is leaking Enhanced Combinatorial Variation Generation – supports tagged and ... (Read on Source)

LinkedIn Platform Finally Debuts

Liz Gannes — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:39 +0000

A month after Om trashed LinkedIn for failing to launch a promised application platform, and more than a year after the initiative was first announced, the professional network is finally giving out developer keys. Today LinkedIn launches a business-focused apps platform. The full launch follows a string of LinkedIn deals to integrate with IBM, ... (Read on Source)

Democrats Step Up Push for Votes on Health Care

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:57:44 GMT

WASHINGTON — Anxious that Saturday’s party-line Senate vote to open debate on a health care overhaul gives them little maneuvering room, Obama administration officials and their Congressional allies are stepping up overtures to select Senate Republicans in hopes of winning their ultimate support. (Read on Source)

Open question and answer thread

Nadyne — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:00 GMT

I haven't done one of these in awhile, and it's a quiet week, so ... If you've got a question for me, go on and ask it. If I've got an answer, I'll share it. If I don't have an answer (either I don't know or can't say), then I'll tell you that too. Questions about MacBU, our applications, Mac development at Microsoft, what it's like to work here, (Read on Source)

Sony planning paid PSN subscriptions for...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:04:30 GMT

UPDATE] Kaz Hirai confirms premium level will be added on top of PS3 and PSP's online service, which will remain free to play online; PSN revenue expected to hit $563 million this fiscal year. (Read on Source)

U.S. home sales at 2-1/2 year high

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:02:49 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of previously owned U.S. homes jumped last month to their highest level in more than 2-1/2 years, but a fall in an economic activity gauge was a reminder recovery from recession would be patchy. (Read on Source)

Columbus Blue Jackets' Derek Dorsett put on injured reserve

Associated Press — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:02:28 PST

The Columbus Blue Jackets have placed forward Derek Dorsett on injured reserve retroactive to Thursday. (Read on Source)

When threads go bad

Darryl Gove — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:02:06 -0800

When a thread hits an error in a multithreaded application, that error will take out the entire app. Here's some example code: #include #include void *work(void * param) { int*a; a=(int*)(1024*1024); (*a)++; printf("Child thread exit\n"); } void main() { pthread_t thread; pthread_create(&thread,0,work,0); pthread_join( ... (Read on Source)

Spotify for Nokia and more

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:55:08 +0000

Today we’re delighted to announce the launch of Spotify for Symbian. Symbian is the operating system used by a number of smartphones including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung. (Read on Source)

Workshop de competitividade

Silvia Valadares — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:59:44 GMT

Acabei fazer uma palestra no auditório da Universidade São Judas Tadeu sobre Empreendedorismo e Inovação. Ótima oportunidade para explicar um pouco do que estamos fazendo no Brasil com o Microsoft Sol e seus programas. O evento é promovido pelo SUCESU-SP com apoio do Sebrae e da Assespro. Na sequência, o Silvio Meira abre a apresentação ... (Read on Source)

ULS Log Viewer Released!

Ronalg — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:50:40 GMT

We have finally released a good tool to review ULS logs. For a while, this tool was available only to MS Employees. Customer's had to painstaking use something like Excel to be able to review ULS logs in a somewhat decent fashion. ULS Viewer includes a ton of great filtering options. It's a must download for anyone who has to work with ... (Read on Source)

Obama to meet advisers on Afghanistan

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday added to his schedule an evening session with top advisers on Afghanistan as he closes in on a decision on whether to send thousands more U.S. troops. (Read on Source)

A storm is brewing at Best Buy

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0500

Here it comes: Best Buy ran a national Black Friday ad inviting the world to celebrate Thanksgiving and Eid Al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice. Fair enough, right? Happy Eid! Well, take a gander at the ad up there and brace yourself. (Read on Source)

Disaster Unfolding at State Level

Daily Kos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:46:03 GMT

As the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, 29 states saw higher unemployment rates in October, with eight others registering no change. You can see an interactive map on the subject here . There is good reason to believe that November's figures will be similar. That situation, and the economic situation in general, has led to what is ... (Read on Source)

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New Worm Attacks iPhones, Targets Mobile Banking

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:40:54 +0000

A second iPhone worm is in the wild, and unlike the jokey Australian worm authored by hacker prankster Ikee two weeks ago, this one is dangerous. Unlike Ikee’s hack, which merely rick-rolled owners of infected iPhones, the new Dutch variant targets customers of the bank ING. When triggered, the worm redirects users visiting the banking site ... (Read on Source)

AMD Magny-Cours and FMA

Scott Davenport — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:38:15 -0800

AMD's Magny-Cours processor is coming. Plenty of info on the chip itself online (try this basic Google search for Magny-Cours ). On the FMA front, support for Magny-Cours integrated into b128 ( CR 6860401 ). :wq (Read on Source)

Source: Pittsburgh Steelers' Charlie Batch has a wrist injury, will need surgery

ESPN.com news services — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:31:52 PST

Steelers QB Charlie Batch has a wrist injury that will require surgery this week and will sideline him six weeks, ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter reported. (Read on Source)

WPTouch makes WordPress blogs look better on touch mobile devices

Jason Clarke — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST

Filed under: Blogging , Freeware , Web While most touch mobile devices like the iPhone render web pages surprisingly well, sometimes they are slow to load and difficult to read. Blogs, in particular, with their wide text areas tend to become difficult to read on small screens. If you run a WordPress blog, there's an option available to you ... (Read on Source)

Video: Hot Potato Turns Events Into Social Streams

Liz Gannes — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:29:58 +0000

Sometime over the last year you’ve marveled at the intersection of a real-time event and your social graph, whether it’s an earthquake, a big occasion like the Obama inauguration, or a football game for your alma mater. Suddenly, everything aligns in your Facebook and/or Twitter feed! But surely, these communal, relevant, timely ... (Read on Source)

Webinar hébergement nouvelle génération

Thierry Manfe — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:27:31 -0800

Le mercredi 2 d�cembre � 11h00 - heure de Paris - Sun Starup Essentials vous invite � d�couvrir l'offre de Planet-Work , notre partenaire h�bergement. Fr�d�ric Vanni�re, Directeur Technique, vous expliquera comment il a mis en oeuvre les fonctionnalit�s de virtualisation de Solaris et de ZFS pour proposer des packages d'h�bergement souples, � ... (Read on Source)

Volkswagen denies NASCAR link

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:23:22 -0800

Stuck believes that NASCAR "is the best racing in the world today," and admires the 40-plus cars on the grid and the side-by-side competition. However, the lack of sophisticated engineering incorporated in the cars "is very difficult for Germans to accept." (Read on Source)

Data Robotics introduces 5-bay Drobo S, enterprise-ready DroboElite

Darren Murph — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:30:00 EST

Data Robotics has been quietly raking in the dough (and trying to match up supply with demand) ever since it launched its 8-bay DroboPro back in April, and now the company is making yet another bold move: doubling its product line. Starting today, the traditional 4-bay Drobo will be joined by the quicker Drobo S, and the DroboElite will be added ... (Read on Source)

LG X120 netbook comes to the US with 2-year AT&T contract

Joseph L. Flatley — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:17:00 EST

If you've been aching to get your hands on the 10.1-inch, matte white LG X120 netbook that's been thrilling the trendy Euro jet-set elite for the last 6 months or so, now is your chance! Available at RadioShack.com and select brick and mortar The Shack locations, it can be yours for $179.99 with a 2-year $60/month AT&T contract. We'll let ... (Read on Source)

Nothing to see here!

Jesse Bishop — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:15:00 GMT

Blog located at: www.jebishop.com . (Read on Source)

SQL Azure and Entity Framework sessions from PDC 2009

Eric Nelson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:07:16 GMT

Two areas I am looking at right now are SQL Azure and Entity Framework 4. PDC had plenty of content on both these areas. Just need to find the time to watch some of it! I have added direct links to the standard definition WMV and the PPTs to download (which is what I am doing right now). SQL Azure SQL Azure Database: Present and Future Windows ... (Read on Source)

Radiation leak investigated at Three Mile Island

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:05:20 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal officials are investigating a radiation leak at Three Mile Island, scene of the worst U.S. nuclear power accident, but said on Sunday there was no threat to public health or safety. (Read on Source)

This week on Arcade: Madden NFL Arcade

Major Nelson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Look for Madden NFL Arcade this Wednesday on Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1200 points. (Read on Source)

The half-life of news

Jeff Jarvis — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:55:08 +0000

At a Yale conference a week ago, Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer talked about the life cycle of the value of news in his business. When a piece of financial news come out, it is at its most valuable for a very short time, he said. I asked him later how long that is. “Milliseconds,” [...] (Read on Source)

Reducing the size of ASP.NET pages

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:24:00 GMT

We all know when a page is requested, ASP.NET processes the page, its server controls, and finally sends the HTML to the client-side for the browser to render it. The time taken to download the HTML at the client side depends mainly on the final size of the page. If your page is data rich, it would take a lot of time to fetch it. So here I am ... (Read on Source)

Spill the beans

Christophersaul — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:31:16 -0800

My last post mentioned that I had just learnt, via Twitter , that Sheikh Mohammed met recently with David Miliband, Britain's Foreign Secretary. I would love to be a fly on the wall in these kinds of meetings. Britain has a long and close association with the UAE, something that I clearly have a personal interest in. Let's hope Mr Miliband did a ... (Read on Source)

Despondent because you Didn’t attend PDC? Take heart and check this out!

John Alexander — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:17:55 GMT

If you were like me last week – bummed because you weren’t able to make one of the coolest PDC’s in years. You’ll be happy to know (as I was) about a very generous and cool offering from Microsoft – made possible by some very hard work from the channel 9 guys ! You can view ALL the sessions here ! All of Day 1 is up (including ... (Read on Source)

Next Year’s 10 Great Retail Trends

Rich Whittle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:08:12 +0000

If the recovery stays on course, next year the retailers who survived the recession will begin to reap its benefits such as the market share and real estate coughed up by competitors who didn’t make it. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, reports TheAge.com. Even so, some of the most important expansion strategies that will play out [...] (Read on Source)

Economic Outrage du Jour

Daily Kos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:06:03 GMT

Anne Tergesen at The Wall Street Journal reports : According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, age-discrimination allegations against current, former and prospective employers have hit a high -- up 29% to 24,582 in fiscal year 2008, from 19,103 in 2007. Behind the trend are the recession and the graying of the American work ... (Read on Source)

Deal of the Week: 3 of ‘em

Major Nelson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:05:00 GMT

Xbox LIVE Gold Members can save on the following 3 deals this week only: The Fable II: See the Future Add-On, normally 560 points is 400 points . The Xbox LIVE Arcade game Peggle is normally 800 points is only 400 points . And the Arcade title Death Tank, normally 1200 points is now 800 points . (Read on Source)

Using ZFS to build a "poor man's cluster"

Apatoki — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:51:40 -0800

Let's consider a "poor man's cluster" where 2 servers share a common set of disks containing a ZFS pool named "test". 1) pool "test" is imported on node1 2) node1 breaks 3) node2 imports the pool 4) node1 boots and automatically tries to import the pool Fortunately, a ZFS pool stores in its label the hostid of the ... (Read on Source)

Data-controlled Processes Application Design

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:58:00 GMT

A ready-to-use process manager provided (Read on Source)

New references resources

Jorge Sanchez Coloma — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:46:33 -0800

Sun Software !!! This are new resources to collect references about Sun midlleware Software. References&customer stories of GlassFish Portfolio (look&more at testimonials ) References&customer stories of GlassFish ESB (look&more at testimonials ). Customer reviews are also very interesting. References&customer stories of ... (Read on Source)

Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:22:00 GMT

Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application. (Read on Source)

Are you a Java programmer in/near Zurich?

Geertjan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:18:10 -0800

This week Thursday I'll be at this JUGS event with Toni Epple in Zurich: To join us, register here ! (Read on Source)

Samsung Omnia II coming to Verizon December 2

Bonnie Cha — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:15:00 PST

Samsung and Verizon Wireless announce the upcoming availability and pricing of the Samsung Omnia II. Originally posted at Dialed In (Read on Source)

Street Shots: Indonesia

Jimgris — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:00:37 -0800

Some street shots from Jakarta and Bandung last week ... (Read on Source)

The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography – 25% OFF This Week Only

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Today I’m really excited to announce the official launch of the first ever DPS ebook – The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography. When we survey our readers to find out the type of photography that they do the most – Photographing People – is always among the top results. Whether it be casual photography of family or ... (Read on Source)

Pragmatic Beer – Thanksgiving Edition

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Don and I are going to host a Pragmatic Beer night tomorrow November 24 at 6:30 PM. If you are in the area, please stop by and have a drink/dinner/etc. (Read on Source)

Beautiful Security book review

Clive — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:36:53 -0800

As noted here , I have been reading two books for a couple of months and not made much progress in recent times. My progress through books under consideration tend to be directly proportional to the amount of time spent traveling on trains or plains and I have not been doing that much of either for the last few month, hence the slow progress. A ... (Read on Source)

Microsoft Zune

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:36:53 -0800

Bottom-line summary:(Explain to us in detail why you like or dislike the product, focusing your comments on the product's features and functionality, and your experience using the product. This field is optional.) (Read on Source)

MySQL Cluster Persistent to Disk

Thierry Manfe — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:26:46 -0800

I am late following up on a question we got during the Webinar last Wednesday on High Availability for Web applications . The question was about whether MySQL Cluster is using disks for persistency. In previous releases of MySQL, the NDB cluster engine (a.k.a. MySQL Cluster) would log on disk but would store all the data in memory. Eventually ... (Read on Source)

China Mobile starts selling Dell Mini 3i

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:26:00 GMT

Dost thou desire an Android phone in Red Passion or Oiled Bronze? Begin thy journey, brave Sir Knight, to China where you will be able to purchase the Dell Mini 3i with 3.5-inch touchscreen for a few coins of the realm. (Read on Source)

Enterprise configuration management

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:11:00 GMT

Configuration of .net applications using database (Read on Source)

CodeSOD: Starring The Admin

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

We've all been there before. You spend all this time building a kick-ass, ultra-awesome, super-sweet web application and then you realize you need to build some stupid "administration" module that needs to do the boring, run-of-the-mill things like maintain users, groups, privileges, and so on. There are several different magnitudes of ... (Read on Source)

Visual Studio 2010 new Intellisense enhancements

Nikolaosk — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:52:00 GMT

In this post I am going to demonstrate through (screenshots mostly) some very handy, useful new features regarding Intellisense that ship with VS 2010. Through these features we can be more productive. Intellisense is very useful and has been an integral part of VS since its first release back in 2001. Microsoft's main aim is to to have " ... (Read on Source)

Media

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:51:40 -0800

Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. (Read on Source)

GlassFish guide in Japanese

Pierrot — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:55:08 -0800

Are you looking for Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Administration Guide in Japanese ? It has just been freshly published on http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1775.6?l=ja ! Now I should probably write this entry in Japanese, but my language skills are not there yet... like... not at all... I would need at least a magical dictionary+5 for ... (Read on Source)

Roll up, Roll up Servers from £260 - MySQL, Virtualization, Windows, Linux and Solaris - 1RU and all for £1050 - Startups we love you

Stewart Townsend — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:37:18 -0800

X4150 Server for Startups - Roll up, Roll up now - Clearance Remanufactured stock for you. If you are a startup, and a member of Sun's Startup Essentials programme you can get this and X2200 now as well, the price list is being sent to you as I write this, if you are not a member then sign up now at http://sun.com/startups and get these servers ... (Read on Source)

WCF Service Testing

Gino Abraham — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:18:12 GMT

WCF Service Testing: A challenge for a WCF service developer is to know whether the service developed by him is interoperable with other applications made in different technologies. Often People will write sample windows applications to check whether WCF service else we tend to use dynamic Web service invocation tools which can put up a ... (Read on Source)

Building High Performance Web Applications

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:08:42 -0800

At the PDC (our dev conference) we release the Beta version of the ASP.NET Ajax Library and also donated it to the CodePlex Foundation as their first project. For this version of the library we’ve focused on four areas of functionality: (Read on Source)

Developing Sailfin CAFE Applications using Netbeans

Mohit Gupta — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:08:42 -0800

Developing Sailfin CAFE Application with Netbeans is easier then ever. Resolve dependencies and build the project without any hassles. Here's a quick guide to it: - Create a new Netbeans project : File --> New Project - In maven category, choose Maven Web Application, you will get the following window: click finish to create a project. - ... (Read on Source)

Ness Tziona Usergroup 1 Year Birthday Party

Ohad Israeli — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:49:23 GMT

Last Wednesday we celebrated a year of community work with the Ness Tziona Usergroup ! The meeting which included a lecture by Pavel about What’s new in C# 4.0 & Visual Studio 2010 grouped together more than 100 attendees who enjoyed a great lecture, 2 cakes, lots of pizza slices, balloon and a handful of books that were given over the ... (Read on Source)

Death and Social Networking

Mitchell LeBlanc — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:48:59 +0000

Ever wondered what happens to Facebook profiles when their owner dies? As we previously reported, the social networking giant implements memorial pages. It can be quite depressing for family and friends to login to their Facebook profiles and see it suggested that they poke the deceased. The Globe and Mail recently reported about Amelia Shaw, who ... (Read on Source)

Centralized testing - some drawbacks

John Morrison — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:47:53 -0800

Posted at my blog - http://www.techmanageronline.com/2009/11/centralized-software-testing-some.html (Read on Source)

2009 F1 Champion Jenson Button moving to McLaren?

Seth Edward O'Neal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:43:28 +0000

In case you didn't know, Jenson Button secured the world title in Brazil. And although he didn't win the Brazilian Grand Prix, Jenson Button scored just enough points to secure the world championship this 2009 F1 season . However, there are rumors that claim Brawn GP could lose the newly crowned champion to McLaren. Yes, you read it, McLaren is ... (Read on Source)

A bonus show....with lollip0p and friends

Major Nelson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:42:00 GMT

While I am on assignment this week, lollip0p decided to step up and produce this bonus show. Enjoy! Host : lollip0p ( Xbox LIVE ) ( Twitter ) Interview: Sean Xbox LIVE Software Development Engineer in Test (2:19 - 11:51 ) Interview: Eric, Xbox LIVE Program Manager (11:54 - 18:28) Interview: Matt, Xbox LIVE Software Development Engineer (18:31 - ... (Read on Source)

Daily Giz Wiz 966: Dual GPS Cradle

Leo Laporte — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:33:53 +0000

The Dual GPS Navigation & Battery Cradle for iPod touch... For show notes visit the TWiT Wiki . Today's Audible Pick: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz . Bandwidth for Daily Giz Wiz is provided by AOL Music and Spinner.com . Hosts: ... (Read on Source)

III Jornadas de Software Libre 2008 - Catamarca

Nicolas Alonso — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:23:56 -0800

El día viernes 31 de Octubre y el sábado 1 de Noviembre del 2008, se llevaron a cabo en la ciudad de San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca (Catamarca, Argentina), las “ III Jornadas de Software Libre ”. Las mismas se llevaron a cabo en las instalaciones de la Universidad Nacional de Catamarca y contó con la presencia de mas de 400 asistentes . Las ... (Read on Source)

Solaris/OpenSolaris上使用3G -- Using 3G modems on Solaris

Lei Chen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:14:18 -0800

继续看华为E180 HSPA上网卡，与EC1260一样，它也需要主机发送命令转换它的工作模式。运行前一篇blog中的小程序，能够实现这种切换（不用理程序报出的错误)。切换完成后，遇到了麻烦，这个设备在切换前和切换后都是使用的(0x12d1,0x1001) VID和PID。所以如果直接将整个设备绑定到usbsacm上是不行的。请使用下面的命令绑定driver： [root@gutter]# update_drv -a -i 'usbif12d1,1001.0.config1.0' usbsacm 这样还不够，上述命令只是将usbsacm driver绑定到configuration 1， interface 0上。在切换之前和之后都有这个interface。Solaris ... (Read on Source)

Idiots - Part 01

TehGrumpyCoder — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:16:36 GMT

I labelled this as Part 01 because who knows, I may do a running series. Just came from a 'pot luck' -- I hate pot lucks, but that's not part of the reason to write. My wife gives me a hard time for not entering into conversation with people and cites that as a reason I never have a good time at such events. So tonight, I decided to 'enter in'. ... (Read on Source)

Microsoft and News Corp in Discussions to Remove Newspaper Content from Google

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:16:36 GMT

It's puzzling to me that a business person with a track record like Murdoch would see a benefit to making his newspapers' content harder to find. If content doesn't spread today, it doesn't exist. If Murdoch wants people to take the time and effort to go to Bing to find his content, he'd better have plans to break some serious ... (Read on Source)

70-505 Book

Mbcrump — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:12:25 GMT

I am currently on Chapter 10 - Lesson 2 of the (Exam 70-505): Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5—Windows® Forms Application Development book and I am a bit disappointed. Besides the correction page , which hasn't been updated since May 09, I have found seeral errors on my own. The only positive thing that I can say about the cd-rom is that ... (Read on Source)

Nearly a year

David Horan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:08:35 -0800

Well, it's been nearly a year since I joined Sun, and it's been a wild ride to be sure. I'm now at a new client that has significantly increased their use of Managed Services, and have some aggressive timelines for retooling their IT organization. With the start of my "new year" at Sun, I'm going to attempt to get back into a regular ... (Read on Source)

LiNQ to desestrés

José Marcos García Espinosa — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:53:44 GMT

En mi trabajo actual casi no utilizo el SQL Manager. Esto debido a que yo sólo me encargo de cosas del front (funcionalidades e interacción con el usuario) y lo referente a bases de datos lo ve otra persona. Estarme alejando de las cuestiones de bases de datos me preocupa un poco porque siento que podría 'oxidarme' en esa área que de por sí ... (Read on Source)

Re-inventing the Wheel

Darren Gosbell — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:40:51 GMT

Interestingly I had two instances last week when I thought different parts of Microsoft were re-inventing the wheel. The first was while listening to Episode 496 of Dot Net Rocks, where they were talking about project Trident from Microsoft Research. My first thought as they were describing the "visual workflows" was that MS Research had re- ... (Read on Source)

Simple site sanity testing with Cassini and friends

Aaronjensen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:11:00 GMT

Recently I wanted to add a very simple sanity check to our sites’ build. Typically the Integration/Selenium RC tests would handle this sort of thing, but I wanted something light enough to go in continuous integration build so we would be protected from simple dll version mishaps, configuration errors, container issues, whatever. There’s ... (Read on Source)

Geek pr0n: PSPGo and PSP Phat side-by-side shots

Seamonkey420 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:56:11 +0000

i know. i’m that guy. after debating about it, i decided to go out and upgrade to a PSPGo. here are some quick shots of it next to its older and phatter PSP 1001 brother. enjoy (Read on Source)

Automatic Null Checks

Alois Kraus — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:20:32 GMT

I have written far too many null checks in my life. Why do we have even null values? They only seem to provoke a NullReferenceException in our code after all. F# for example has the option type with the value None which is semantically the same as null without being null which makes it impossible to access invalid values by accident. It is of ... (Read on Source)

Bumper MP3 Crop, One Or Two Ripe Fruits

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:20:32 GMT

Annie Little: Fly Me Away - Twee meets oompahpah with a little coconut percussion thrown in for fun. Maybe seeing the Kindle ad would help? *** Lissie: Little Lovin' - Angsty female singer-songwriter starts as a ballad and ends as a stomp. Not bad. *** (Read on Source)

Analysis Services 2008 Performance Counters showing zero

Darren Gosbell — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:22:06 GMT

I had an issue recently with my SSAS 2008 performance counters - they were all showing up as 0. I could see them listed in Performance Monitor, but none of them worked. The counters for my SSAS 2005 instance worked fine, but the 2008 ones did not. I had observed this behaviour on my old Vista x86 machine and now it was happening on a fresh ... (Read on Source)

CrunchGear Week in Review: New Milkman Edition

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:22:06 GMT

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A Feed You Should Read #12 – DimeCasts.Net

Greg — 2009-11-22T11:20:00.001-08:00

Ha, tricked you didn’t I! You thought this week’s feed would be PDC09 related, didn’t you? Well, so did I… LOL. But I have to say I’ve pretty much reached the PDC saturation point. PDC is done, over, finish and frankly I’m a little tired of hearing about it. Time to move on… My brain is now almost full, with only some smaller ... (Read on Source)