tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50403854289325073182011-12-10T10:32:44.700-05:00- Philosophy, Idiocy, Internet Strategy, .Net Development and JavaScript Web DevelopmentMatt Starkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340761087445368371noreply@blogger.comBlogger1521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040385428932507318.post-66068836777290952922011-12-10T10:32:00.002-05:002011-12-10T10:32:44.710-05:00

ACC seating will be changed from Platinum/Gold etc. to an even split of Blue / Red and in addition to a general price increase, seat prices will probably increase while at the game for no apparent reason. If you want to switch from the Blue to Red section you’ll have to pay a cancellation fee, and may be forced to sign up for season’s tickets. Arena blackouts will become common in unplug to

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In IE the following JavaScript error is thrown in circumstances where there is no match for an individual character code in your font glyph map (you know that file you generated for your font):Error " 'undefined' is null or not an object"Line: 601 (uncompressed source code).At time of posting I am using typeface-0.14.js.The visual result of this error is the sudden disappearance of all headings

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I need help moving my C&C 40 Centerboard from Cleveland to Welland.Please leave your contact information in a comment (will be moderated so nobody will see except me).

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This is a follow up to my original post on How To Change Folder Icons in SharePoint MOSS Using JavaScript.I'd encourage you to read that post first so you have at least a basic understanding of the JavaScript involved in actually changing the folder icons.The .Net Custom Control is much simpler. Here is the complete code C# file fully commented:using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using

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I hope you guys find this code useful in changing default folder icons using JavaScript.Before that - I want to point out that many people are of the opinion that Folders should be avoided at all costs in SharePoint. While I appreciate the perspective there, I believe it merely shows there is a gap in the technology platform.I believe that once that gap is filled (EX// through CustomActions,

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When developing AJAX functionality sometimes a latency simulation can be quite revealing. The following four lines of code serve as an interception point injecting a user specified network delay in serving network resources for UI testing purposes.If you use your imagination a bit, and leverage the power of jQuery selectors, one can quickly build a network latency injector for help in developing

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AOP goes like this: If it's not part of your core logic it's an aspect and should in some way be separated from your core algorithm. In a more literal sense, Aspects are application infrastructure components, as a foundation is to a house, Aspects are to a software application. Now how does this differ from OOP?The intention of Aspect Oriented Programming is two fold:Separation of Concern: the

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How often do you want to determine the absolute URI from any url without the specific file reference and without the query string variables. This is especially useful in many SharePoint tasks.Here is a little extension method that can do just that. Pop this in a static class and try calling it on your Uri object:public static UriExtensions { public static string AbsolutePathNoFile(this

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I am online with the Google Wave beta. It is cool, takes a bit of getting use to. But this is NOT going to replace my normal email account anytime soon - This is no Tsunami. I do however hope it does replace my email account ASAP - Especially on my iPhone!The most major thing I don't understand about Google Wave is: How can I message people that do not have Google Wave accounts? Wouldn't

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As an experiment I have decided to open my comments to everyone to see if it impacts my site traffic. This will be a fun experiment.

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My birthday is today, was yesterday, is tomorrow or is at some point next / last week. I wanted to wish myself a Happy Birthday on my blog ... so ... Happy Birthday to me ...

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I've built a solution with a few custom ContentTypes in a list definition. Now, removing these from the NewMenu has to be easy right? Just add a HideCustomAction definition to your instance file. Not so easy to find the ID's that will be used for those content types is it? Well, here is a solution that will remove the ContentTypes from the NewMenu but allow them to hang around for use in

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My project manager sent me the below email which I thought was fairly amusing. Just as a FYI, we do not assign bugs to developers based on sexual preference. This was merely a typo by a Russian developer who doesn't have the best grasp of the English language but nonetheless, when sent to a big enough audience... can be quite amusing...Here is the email, enjoy:__________________________________

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As part of an unorthodox request I was asked to make a TabStrip component SEO friendly. My first thought was to completely rewrite the control to make use of GET requests rather than continuing to POST the data back to the server.Immediately I ran into a problem with this approach as the developers of this site have implemented the majority of these TabStrip controls inside the ASP.Net

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I wanted to write a quick heads up on a couple quirks relating to the SPJobDefinition and wiring up Timer Jobs (may be relevant for deployments where the Timer Jobs are modified). We are building our solutions on Windows 2003 Server with MOSS 2007.To debug SPJobDefinitions attach VS debugger to OWSTIMER.exe process after following install instructions below.OWSTIMER is caching the

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The solution is remarkably simple.Click Debug -> Attach To ProcessNote: At this point, ensure the checkbox "Select processes from all users" is selected.Select OWSTIMER.EXE from the list.Setup a breakpoint on the Execute override method.Be patient and wait for the timed job to execute.

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I finally got my first Zune badge today and with it, a lesson in mediocrity. Microsoft may want to rethink their strategy as to how these badges are issued as I now feel that I listen to a bunch of kindof sortof artists..The Bronze Artist Power Listener award! Wooo Hooo. Are you kidding me? Thanks for this bronze mediocre accomplishment. What if it was a Platinum Artist Power Listener award?

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Interesting article here: http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/18/getting-public-key-token-of-assembly-within-visual-studio.aspxThe article explains a couple tricks as to how to get PublicKeyTokens out of your signed assemblies in a quick and simple manner.Enjoy.Over And Out

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Every time I get an email from Apple I:1) Feel like I'm dumb.2) Ignore it.3) Get annoyed and unsubscribe from the mailing list.Only I continue to get at least one email from Apple every two days that I do not want. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know how to make it so Apple never contacts me again?If so, please enlighten me!Over And Out

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I’ve been using Bing for one week to see if it can replace Google.I can now say that Bing does 100% replace Google and in many circumstances I’ve found it not only easier to use, but faster, and more relevant.Try switching your search engine to Bing and give it a test – I’d love to see what other people think!Feel free to leave hateful comments, it's all part of the game.Over and Out

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I need new desktop wallpaper. And you know you're a nerd when you have a vision that this wallpaper should be a collage of all the worst Windows error prompts imaginable.Ideally the collage would have a background with a Windows Blue screen. Then, as if this ask makes absolutely no sense already I want as many verbose Windows Error dialog messages stacked on top of the blue screen as possible.The

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I would rec against buying software from this company. I've now logged four bugs in their PDF product.I'm sure it's useful for some things - but it is very inconsistent, buggy and if I had a choice, I'd never use it again. Unfortunately it's the only product on the market that can render SVG inside a PDF - so I'm stuck with it.The following bugs were initially denied by ABCpdf support. I was

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I'm making a really quick post on how you can wrap the jQuery fadeBack control into a .Net Web Custom Control. If you haven't read the article on the fadeBack control, you will have to go here and grab the source. Save the scripts in a script folder inside your Web Site / Web Application.To use this control you need to add a reference to the Web Server Control project you have built the code in

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UPDATE: the toNum method must be changed to this: function toNum(strNum) { if (strNum && strNum != "") { var i = parseFloat(strNum); if (i.toString() == "NaN") return 0; else return i; } return 0; };I scoured the web in search of a jQuery plugin that allows me to fade

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Another quick post on cancelable events in JavaScript. An example of a cancelable event is the keydown method. If I return false from a keydown method JavaScript will not allow the action of that keydown event to proceed. For example, I could return false on a document keydown event to cancel the ctrl+c behaviour etc. etc.The following is a nice method I've built and tested only in IE 7 which

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Quick post on a very common methodology I've been using to chain events to the window.onload event in pure JavaScript: if (window.onload == null) { window.onload = loadAutoSubmitScript; } else { var ol = window.onload; window.onload = function() { ol(); loadProc(); } }function loadProc() { alert("The window is loaded"); }This should work for pretty much every

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I had the privilege of witnessing the Google's street view car as it canvassed downtown Toronto yesterday.Although I have a feeling the Google's street view car was stalking me, I will still grant Google the rights to use my image on their street view.Here are the precise details of where I should appear in Toronto. Let's keep our fingers crossed for now!View Larger Map

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Here is the Blackberry AppWorld:http://www.blackberry.com/select/appworld/Here is a list of the featured applications:http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/appworld/featured.jsp

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Windows Vista called on memory ~14,000 times during boot-up. A source inside Microsoft tells me Microsoft has been able to get that number down to 2000 calls to memory. I certainly see a major speed improvement as my 32 bit Windows 7 dual boot starts up much faster than it's 64bit Vista counterpart.Moreover, it seems the only thing holding back the Windows 7 release is a Direct Connect feature,

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In other words: The great normal downturn in the business cycle … The GREAT significant decline in economic activity spread across the country, lasting more than a few months … don’t even think of calling this a depression ... everyone knows that a depression has to last at least 25% longer than this … everyone knows we need another 20% of the worlds wealth to be destroyed before we can really

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It drives me crazy when my friends / coworkers ask me to Google something.How hard is it to type: www.google.com and a couple keywords.http://letmegooglethatforyou.com is the perfect solution. Try it yourself or allow me To Google That For You.If you haven't already figured this out this site shows the user an animation explaining exactly how easy it is to Google that keyword on your own.Over

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Another common tidbit of JavaScript code:Cancel event bubbling:function stopEvent(evt){ evt = evt || window.event; if (evt.stopPropagation){ evt.stopPropagation(); evt.preventDefault(); }else if(typeof evt.cancelBubble != "undefined"){ evt.cancelBubble = true; evt.returnValue = false; } return false;}

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This is a simple method to open popups below text inputs (or any Html Element at that) using JavaScript. Please let me know if things are missing ... The intent of this script is to open a small pop up below a text box for use in a custom auto complete. As this is an ASP.Net control, and ASP.Net creates element ID's based on containers we need something to base our element id's on so we can do

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A simple way to get the element that starts an event. I'm using this to ascertain which text box is calling the KeyPress event in pure JavaScript:function KeyPress(event) { var srcElement = getElement(event); alert(srcElement.id);}function getElement(evt) { if (window.event) return window.event.srcElement; else return evt.currentTarget;};Another variation of this script could be

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I wasn't aware that JavaScript text sorting was case sensitive (well on ie7 I've verified it is). So, Here is a simple example of sorting an Object Array taking into account case sensitivity.for (var i in searchList) { var indexOfTerm = WordStartsWith(searchList[i].Text, searchPhrase); if (indexOfTerm > -1) { results[results.length] = { Item: searchList[i],

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This applies to Canadians only:REMINDER .... All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing Companies and you will start to receive sale calls.YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLSTo prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 1 866-580-3625 or [Edit: 1-888-382-1222 this number is not correct].It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your

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“One of my favorites was when a user asked me if they could print a black & white document in color. “...wat?“My personal favorite was when an admin said they were running low on paper for their printer. Another admin (quite a bit older) had a wonderful solution. She took a paper and headed to the copy machine. Amazingly she "created" 100 more pieces of paper. Apparently the paper fairy supplied

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What do you think about this fully legal .Net class name:public class DynaSeries : List { }Hmmmm a class that inherits a generic list of itself.Strange.Over and Out

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String Starts or Ends With Sequence of CharactersThis method returns a boolean value if the initial string either starts with or ends with the sought after string (startOrEndsWithTest).private bool StringStartsOrEndsWith(string initialString, string startOrEndsWithTest){ if (initialString.StartsWith(

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At WAN 2008 Nikesh Arora, the President of Google Europe, Middle East, Africa and VP of UK operations stated the rise of paid news content on the web.He even goes as far as to predict the demise of the blogosphere and the continued dependence on internet based commodities (mashable mapping, messaging etc. products).Y0u can read the article here.This is especially scary as we move the public

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Why is this not news? Do people really not care about Zune. With this release it will be interesting to see what new apps we can load on our devices.Anyway, as predicted the Microsoft Zune Development Platform has arrived. I'm thinking cardless card games :).Officially, this is a gaming platform. Unofficially, it's a development platform.Check out the Zune blog here.Keep in mind the full

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I bought a Zune 2 80GB media player because I believed in Microsoft when they gave the Zune 2.0 software update to all the Zune 1 users.In February, Microsoft stated (on their XNA Team blog) that Zune game development would be possible in XNA Studio 3.0."A preview release of XNA Game Studio 3.0 will be available in the Spring 2008 timeframe, with a final release scheduled for the holiday 2008

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I do not have much time for a blog today, but thought I'd share this new Google Analytics data sharing feature with you. I am a tiny bit hesitant to believe that it's a good thing Google is trying to take on this vertical - but heck - what can't they get into - Microsoft Max?? I feel this is just another attempt from the giant to capture more information from its users - especially more

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OK ... you're going to have to use your imagination a bit here because there is too much code to put everything in here ... the basic premise is as such:// get the row counts out of my parameter => MyUserDefinedCustomTableObject is obviously a class in my app - and no, it is not a DataTable it is a Generic Matrix.int RowCount = MyUserDefinedCustomTableObject.Rows.Count;// get the col counts out

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Please sign Mayor David Millers Handgun Ban Petition. You can do it online. It takes all of 2 mins. Even if you hate David Miller this is worth it. Think about your children.Click below, then click "Sign the Petition", type in your name and address and click submit.http://www.toronto.ca/handgunban/index.htmFacts below,Cheers,MattIMPACT OF FIREARMS IN CANADA, FACT SHEET:Canadian police

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Blah Blah Blah ... this is actually kind of neat. I wonder how far away from this we really are. Science has a habit of producing vapor-ware, but this may be different. It may become a necessity. Unfortunately, I believe the internet will be private before this Grid goes mainstream. Rogers has started capping my bandwidth at 95GB per month, about 1/3 of my typical usage pattern. They are

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This is another quick follow-up on yet another member of the T-Mobile Blackberry Hotspot team. The Blackberry 8820 has been released with T-Mobile Hotspot support.ZD Net is reporting that this device is now available through T-Mobile. Effectively this means there is yet another sweet blackberry that will work through their $20 a month plan.Specs for the 8820 include: "quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (

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Online Video Content Aggregator:www.ovguide.com -> this is basically a traffic stat app which tracks a bunch of submitted sites and presents them as aggregates to the masses. I use this when the sites I like get shut down – in order to find new sites. Lots of specialty sites like Simpsons Video, South Park etc. with ALL episodes. Good to dig around in the verticals listed in the left side

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Thought this was pretty funny:

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I wonder how many people are like me, remoting into their home PC's from the office so they may "organize things" or "view things" or "do things" that they can't do at the office - Like try to find where that mix tape resides on their Zune because the Zune interface has no ability to search. Well, I remoted in today and tried to do a search of my device from the Zune Software (yes you can see

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I don't know how behind the curve I really am with this one - BUT - Blogger is now supporting OpenID authentication.I really wish I'd known about this - next question - does that mean Google is now supporting OpenID too? Bloggers? Can I use my Google Account anywhere OpenID is supported.I am LOVING THIS.Over and Out

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Just a little feature request. I'd like to be able to play a video file as an audio file on my Zune. For certain shows, EX// Russell Peters comedy acts - I'd like to be able to turn off my LCD screen so I can just listen to the audio.My primary reason for wanting this is to save some juice.Over and Out

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I'm still trying to decide if I mean holy as in holy grail or holy crap cause they are both pretty applicable.Yahoo launched Haadop in production today and I have to say the statistics are bloody unbelievable. Whomever questioned Microsoft's reasons for wanting to buy this company may either be a financial analyst or partially crazy.Statistics:Number of links between pages in the index: roughly

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If you are stubborn, or an idiot, or you just like using junky apps Open Office is for you. This is probably one of the only situations I'd suggest paying for and installing Office 2007 / 2003. It's just worth it.I've been doing some automation in C# / Open Office [which I would love to rename Open Orface] and have been having issues porting Java code into C# - especially with this god darn

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As pretty much everyone knows by know, Stage 6 is being shut down on February 28th. This is truly disappointing but what can you expect from a high quality / high bandwidth site like that. I truly cannot imagine what their hosting costs must look like month over month.There are few things that come to mind here:1) Download the Veoh player, because when it comes to quality Veoh may be the best

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For anyone wondering just how close the fire was to my building, here are some pictures: click hereYou can see my building in the foreground, yellow brick double wide. My unit is in the bottom right corner.This is what we woke up to. First, totalsmoke filled darkness. Then enormousplumes of smoke appeared. It wasa tremendous specticle

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As I look at a $2500 MSDN Subscription fee, this makes me very jealous. Got any friends that are students?:"DreamSpark is simple, it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career.Who can get this right now?We are kicking this

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Holy Smokes, I think the super was banging on my door for about 5 mins at 5am trying to wake me up to get out of the building.The six alarm blaze just took out pretty much my entire block - every building between Queen & Bathurst / Richmond & Portland with the exception of the Big Bop (thank god!!) and my super sweet hard loft building (and a couple others).Apparently my building has no emergency

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Just another thought today. Search engines are built on extremely complex grid like infrastructures. At this point, with the given technology it is not feasible to miniturize these applications so they may run with the same power on our disconnected little lonely laptop or desktop PC. blah blah blah ...With all this talk about Google saving my search history and relating it to my email and so

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I wrote an application that could tremendously reduce copyright infringement on the www. However, I'm really caught between selling this as a service to the MPAA and making it an open source Web Media player.While I need to make money to eat, to sleep, to live, I also don't want to be a part of the solution as it means no free high quality DivX movie downloads. But better that than be part of

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Heck, I don't know if this works in all circumstances so please let me know if you use this and are or are not happy with it.string RegionalFormat = (new DateTime(2008, 2, 29)).ToString().Split("/".ToCharArray())[0] == "29" ? "d/M/yyyy" : "M/d/yyyy";Over and Out

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http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=274969Mom, do I still have my old stereo in storage somewhere?Behold RIM Genius ... God bless the two CEO's who let this idea roll ... RIM in all of it's success has finally developed a 21st century device to support the increasingly plummeting 20th century technology base. About 8 years too late, but good work I guess. I honestly can't remember the

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Sorry for the delay in my posts. It's been too long and I apologize.Amongst other things, I managed to get run over by a Cube Van on my way into the office (didn't break a bone!!), changed consulting firms, and am once again enjoying life.Now that I'm back at it I wanted to post a link to the Art and Science of Javascript it is a great book that actually talks to real world JavaScript examples.

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Bring on the haters. It has been proven that Windows is significantly less vulnerable than Mac OS X. With 234 highly critical flaws in OS X in comparison to 23 for Windows XP + Windows Vista in 2007 (yes the sum total of both Windows OS's) it can now be made fact that at this point OS X is 10x more vulnerable than Windows.Everyone knew when Apple went mainstream that this was going to become a

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This is actually pretty neat. A little known Google Service called Google Chart API went live today to the entire world.Charts may be embedded in any web application by merely updating the src attribute within an image tag (or using an HttpWebRequest to do something funky with it).Here are some examples:Check out the various charts that can be made using this nifty service here.As an Enterprise

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Henry Rollins: What's your latest obsession?Hank: Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it's really given us is Howard Dean's aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddie

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Instead of building one system that tries to do everything, build a system that is capable of integrating with everything. From an IT perspective, Enterprise 2.0 is about gaining network effects from various systems, rather than choosing one limited strategy that is supposed to be all things to all people.- Sharepoint 2007 - http://innovationcreators.com/wp/?p=271Do you agree?Over and Out

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I'm building an export routine in SSIS and I was forced to create a template text file for the Flat File Destination. I'm sure there are more creative was of doing this, but I decided to go quick and dirty and opened my VBA editor and pounded out the following script. It will setup a fixed width (with row delimiter) column based stub for you to export to.If you need to change the column widths'

Matt Starkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340761087445368371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040385428932507318.post-74941611580099308182007-11-20T14:32:00.000-05:002007-11-20T14:57:20.884-05:00

If you don't have the Miro IPTV application you are missing out. I use to think Joost was pretty cool, but I haven't even started it up since downloading Miro.There are so many super sweet features that I can't even begin to list them.I can make this hockey fight search into a channel. I can even search YouTube, DailyMotion, Google Video etc. all from within the player, and them have Miro

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OK Microsoft,When you release a new technology and you promote it as an alternative to Flash please at least make a little attempt to actually use the technology in one of your production web sites. I can't say much of your continued use of Flash in your production web applications. It's frustrating and it's degrading to your developer base. Do you actually think that any developers will jump

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OK Internet Morons. If one of my friends ever sends this email to me again I think I may seriously lose it. Bill Gates IS NOT PAYING MONEY TO SPAM PEOPLE!!! Bill Gates is a very generous man, but sweet baby J.C., come on people.I don't know what is worse, the fact that some people are so stupid they actually think Microsoft will pay them out, or that some people are so desperate for cash that

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If you want an invite to the Powerset Powerlabs beta please leave your email in some sort of obvious encryption below and I will send you an invite.Also, be warned, sailing in Hurricanes is a ton of work!Over And Out

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Sup! Regular Expressions suck if you're building them yourself but they are too powerful to resist for too many applications.If you need to recursively test your regular expressions against possible matches, try this JavaScript Regular Expression test pagehttp://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.htmlI've been using this site to test dynamically generated regular expressions and it's

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OK,I want to be first to say this here. When this option is available on the iPhone the entire internet is going to be buzzing about it. "The functionality that sets this BlackBerry Curve apart from any other BlackBerry device is the UMA T-Mobile HotSpot @Home support. Without this functionality I may never have tried the device and this support is actually what is driving me to a purchase of

Matt Starkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340761087445368371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040385428932507318.post-39188428293895076182007-10-23T14:21:00.001-05:002007-10-23T14:49:46.275-05:00

I like pointing out other peoples mistakes. I hate it when I make mistakes. But I'm only human, and can only fly in my dreams, so I guess I make mistakes too. But I'm not trying to reflect on my failures. That's not my style, I don't fail all that often, there is nothing to reflect on. I'd rather boast about my success. Or this time, other people's success.A while ago I wrote an article

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I was sitting there watching Steve Jobs help push one of the biggest Software evolutions in history: The Web Application.I sat there distraught, thinking, SNAP DANG, my blackberry's browser sucks. My Nokia browser sucks. I quickly installed Opera Mini 4 beta and hit the net on my mobile device. I jumped onto the iPhone Facebook site, logged in on my Blackberry Pearl and started poking

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I was sitting around the house on Saturday night and had a 3 hour conversation about how we learn, store, and recall information in our brains (I must be a nerd). What irony in getting this quote this morning.“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he

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Dudes and Dudettes,I'm writing to ask which JavaScript library is best suited to bring a web application Offline.Here are the limitations of my question:1) I don't want a library that objectifies my JavaScript objects (EX// I don't want to use prototype).2) I want to use a library that is web standards compliant (EX// I don't want to use Flash, Apollo).3) I want to use a library that is

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Just a quick plea to pass on links to vote on my Office Productivity Poll.I know I'm begging for hits here but am shocked at how few people actually find it useful considering how much time and money was spent on Focus Groups to redesign the product.A big sticky point for Microsoft Office has to be people's familiarity with the product. I knew having gone through school using their older suites

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For all you non-Digg readers please check this out.You can get an MIT degree online for free.Click here for more informationOver and Out

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Oh Man Oh Man ... If you don't read The Best Page In The Universe you really should start. This guy is just hilarious.Which is why I point you to his pointed article entitled: The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face.I thought it was pretty funny, but then again I wasn't too excited about the iPhone hype and I really like my Blackberry.The following animated gif is property of The Best

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This isn't very funny but I like pointing out inconsistencies in other peoples work. Any developer knows that fixing stupid problems like the below is one of the most frustrating things about being in this line of work. Can you spot the problem:Over And Out

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I wanted to comment on some amusing quotes from a C-Net article titled Microsoft Resumes Bashing Open Source. Firstly, Clint Patterson, public relations director for Microsoft's Unified Communications Group says the following:"The open-source development model has yet to demonstrate the ability to support profitable software businesses that can drive the coordinated research and testing

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Powerset has positioned itself as the company that is going to bring down Google. The reason I'm excited isn't because Mark Johnson looks like Bill Gates, or because he has a super high voice, it's because its natural-language technology is being licensed from PARC (the Palo Alto Research Center and susidiary of Xerox Corp.). Renowned for hatching breakthroughs such as the computer mouse and

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Hey Ya'll ... I just happened to notice that the Yahoo! Finance site has been updated and boy oh buoy do I like this one! It's almost 100% AJAX which makes sense to me as this site is really a destination site for finance not a search-able knowledge base. It also has some very non-abraisive animations on the site which work really well to show / hide content. It would be very nice to see some of

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I installed w3counter a couple days ago on my blog and I'm shocked to see that the vast majority of the hits are coming in from the Firefox 2.0 browser.Check out the graph below. Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 account for about 52% of the hits on this site leaving Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 with a measly 37%.One thing that shocks me a bit is that there is actually a Blackberry Browser hitting the site.

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Microsoft's entry into the Cell Phone market is called the: phonIE. This is a phony post.Over And Out

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About 8 years ago, wasn't there some perception that Software companies shouldn't get into hardware? Didn't IBM and Apple fail with spectators citing their hardware businesses as being huge cash sinks? Wasn't it around that time that Microsoft really took off after building an OS that could run on pretty much any hardware?In the past 5 years Apple has been riding the successful iPod all the way

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No No not Web 2.0 ... Process Explorer for Windows v11.0Please download this amazing Advanced Task Manager application from Microsoft. It's just too good to pass up. It's free and there is no installation so you should be able to deploy it even without admin privs. You can even replace the existing Task Manager with this super sweet utility.Process Explorer works on Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT

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Does anybody actually think Microsoft cares about Mac Office? I think it's hilarious they released the ArtOfOffice.com before releasing Microsoft Office 2008 Mac edition. That's a real slap in the face. And you know what, as long as you attack MS for being a business OS, they will never take you seriously.So,To all the PO'd Mac users out there, why don't you stop whining about something and

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Just a quick side note on this one:I think this is a move for both companies to get into Internet Tablet devices. I'd be betting Google and Yahoo are using the term "Phone" to appeal to certain people while the intent is to develop their own Internet PC's.I wonder if Web OS's will take of in parallel? Over And Out

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1) Touch Screen LCD with Web Browser and BluetoothI don't really care if it's Bluetooth or some other equal technology, but I'd like to see a tiny touch screen that can pair with my mobile phone that merely includes a full web browser sort of like the iPhone. The idea would be the built in Web Browser would be able to display any content from the mobile phone or internet VIA some type of

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Another blatant repost from ReadWriteWeb's Alex Iskold:"If the value created by the companies is greater or equal to the money put into them, then we are fine, we can continue to grow. If the technologies that we invented will be used not only by a few hundred thousand people, but by millions, then we are fine, we can continue to grow. And if these new tools work well by themselves and together

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I'm particular. I looked through the www.Tafiti.com source code and noticed a bunch of stuff that I didn't like about how Silverlight is building the underlying RIA.In www.tafiti.com there is a function called startSkipjack that uses a Silverlight.createObject function. Back in the day's that used to be a call to ActiveX or some sort of COM object in the browser - but this function is obviously

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It's time to either make yourself known as a fanboy, or a hater ...Please take a second to respond to my Microsoft Productivity poll which you can find in the right side bar. Are you more productive in Microsoft Office 2007?Ideas for upcoming polls:Does Microsoft Sql Server Integration Services make you more Productive.Does Microsoft Sharepoint make you more Productive.Does Microsoft Windows

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Yes the iPhone is a cool product that runs OSX over UNIX on a mobile device. My bet is the touch screen will bother more people than it helps, and I’m sure it’ll be a warranty issue as screens get scratched and fail to function. I like my tiny QWERTY that I can feel.I had a Compaq iPaq back in 2001. It had a touch screen you COULD use with your thumb. It played Audio and Video. It worked on

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OK so here is the deal. The Show my Email address option does not apply to instant message coordinates. So if you have an email address in your IM Username field Blogger will display that in your profile.I think this is a bit silly because I clearly have not shared my email address. Further, there is no setting to share / not to share your IM address. Be weary not to include your IM

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I just did a Google search for my email address. It directed me to my blogger profile. Well I thought that was strange because I clearly have not selected the checkbox that allows Blogger/Google to share my email address. I would really like to see what Blogger / Google has to say about this. Possibly I shouldn't be using my gmail address, possibly I should be creating a new email account

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I'm not sure if Microsoft Sales staff is serious when they say their products make people more productive. From my experience lately there is absolutely nothing from Microsoft that makes me more productive. In fact, in abstracting the layers further away from me, I'm becoming increasingly less productive with each iteration of Microsoft technology.The following productivity enhancement claims

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This is a very simple thing and it pisses me off that MS gives us such a limited solution here. I'm writing an SSIS package to import Microsoft Dynamics AX information into SQL Server (I know could use WS but the AX implementation is at a client office).The create table statement that I wrote has about 140 fields. Check out the limited editor window in the below screen print. Microsoft,

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