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Via Neal Hardesty Sudoku solver in SQL Via Rob Walling Ruby on Rails, Flick in 5 minutes Live Clipboard Some Interesting Software Quotes: Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen. -Anonymous , "Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction" by Steve C McConnell, ISBN: 1556154844 The bitterness of poor…

This is an interesting and quite detailed comparison of different AJAX frameworks by the author of ComfortASP.NET. The comparison is done on the basis of general attributes (pricing, licensing), integration with apps, ASP.NET compatibility, network traffic (byte transfer), AJAX post backs and additional features. Daniel Zeiss has classified this comparative study in two main parts;…

After Google Earth and Google Moon, we have Google Mars now. Interestingly enough, it has not been "bayesiad" by google yet, so the current search for Google Mars doesn't return the website among top 10.

SP/Invoke is a simple, nice, lightweight, custom add-in tool for Visual studio.NET to generate wrapper classes for your Stored Procedures. If you don’t want the baggage of a gigantic ORM layer but still would like to have ease of SP invocation without having to worry about underlying types and usual param collection dance, you should…

Our project manager, Svetla Petrova sent this to me couple of days ago. Rolling-on-the-floor funny Don't work so hard Enjoy

Now after cloning everything with an n-* prefix, we're traversing down in the object hierarchy. POCO is an acronym for Plain Old CLR Object. It is a play of the term POJO from the Java programming world used by developers targeting the .NET Framework. Similar to Java, the term is used to contrast an object…

In the Time Magazine's Feb 20th issue's cover article, In Search of Real Google, I came across several interesting things. Like Dr. Eric Schmidt; Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer "We try very hard to look like we're out of control... But in fact the company is very measured. And that's part…

Does anyone know what happened to the .NET show? Since WinFX SDK (LIVE! from PDC05) last year 07 Nov 2005, there is no new episode. Also, there are no updates on the .NET show blog, people have been wondering and tech community is definitely missing the updates from Robert Hess and Erica Wiechers. At the…

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Finally, someone did pay attention to my growing concerns I've been raising with Jeremy Cunningham for the longest time, thank you Purdue University. In the ACM Tech newsletter this morning, I read.Fewer Females in Computer Science Purdue Exponent (02/15/06) Weibel, Kristin Purdue University's computer science department has implemented a few changes in order to attract…