| 1. |  | Links continue  - Captured: 15-12-2004 3:01:07
Joel points out the deeper
coolness of Google
Suggest, and announces
a geek dinner this Saturday.
Jon Udell is playing with Calendaring which
is a subset of a problem space I've been interested in since college.
JWZ has a link about folding
shirts.
Gladwell has two new pieces up, I found the one on the nature of getting
on with life over grief and trauma pretty interesting.
There appears ...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 2. | | Why Choose Microsoft for your Portal? - Captured: 14-1-2005 10:51:00
Whether you're a business or technical decision maker, it's important to think about what's important to your organization when making a software decision. For most companies, software is an enabler of business. That is to say, your company is probably not in the business of making/developing software, but rather using software to run your business. Since I'm most familiar with the Portal space, my remarks are specific to Portal software. Nevertheless, many of the same suggestions and concepts a...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 4. | | Thoughts on passing DataSet objects via web services - Captured: 24-1-2005 4:06:20
Every now and then the question
comes up about whether to pass DataSet or DataTable objects through a web service.
I agree with Ted
Neward that the short
answer is NO!!
However, nothing is ever black and
white…
For the remainder of this discussion
remember that a DataSet is just a collection of DataTable objects. There’s no
real difference between a...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 5. | | Less choice leads to better results? - Captured: 8-1-2005 5:23:13
Less choice leads to better results.
Higher level languages and frameworks
restrict choice.
Thus, higher level languages and
frameworks should lead to better results.
The “less choice” statement
flows from this article entitled Choice
Cuts. Ignore the politics
and focus on the research beneath the statement. That’s what is valuable in
this context.
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| 6. | | Why Innovate? - Captured: 8-12-2004 5:26:00
There have been a few comments on my O/R blog assuming the theme of, “There are already O/R mappers/DAL generators on the market, why not just use those?” I've pondered that question for a few days now, and although my initial reaction was defensive, I've tried to step back and take an objective overview of said question.
O/R mappers isn't an incredibly new idea, yet on the same token, it's not that old of an idea, especially in the context of .NET. Like any programming c...
From: Magenic Technologies Developer Blog |
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| 8. | | MZ Tools v4.0 For VS 2002 & 2003 Review - Captured: 26-1-2005 16:40:00
Introduction
MZ Tools is a Visual Studio (VS) add-in that enhances productivity. It does this by offering a number of enhancements to the VS IDE. MZ Tools comes in two flavours, Personal & Enterprise editions. Personal edition costs around $40 and Enterprise around $400. For this review I used the Personal edition (v4) as Carlos has very kindly made this available to fellow MVPs free of charge. Although MZ Tools supports both VS 2002 & 2003 and both VB.NET & C# I tested MZTools in VS 2003, main...
From: VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com |
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| 9. | | Sometimes, people can really annoy you... - Captured: 26-10-2004 14:54:00
In a recent post, I show an easy way to convert between String and Char arrays. Someone responded with a comment that stated:
It actually doesn't convert, but creates new string object containing characters copied from given char array.
That's their entire response. Nothing really adding to my post that either was an improvement or correction... other than to say my choice of using the word convert was incorrect.
OK, so according to Merriam-Webster Online (I just pi...
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| 10. | | The Hot Startup Thats Really An Amazon.com Marketing Ploy? - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:19:14
There have been a lot of little "hot" startups or online projects lately that have a ton of buzz. Offerings like Flickr, del.icio.us, Furl, Bloglines and others seem to be what everyone has been talking about. In cases like Bloglines and Furl, the companies have quickly been snapped up by larger players, and there are plenty of rumors about others (such as the popular rumor that Flickr is being acquired by Yahoo). However, one of these offerings that has been getting some attention lately is ...
From: Techdirt |
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| 11. | | Folksonomizer: generic folksonomy service - Captured: 10-2-2005 20:27:54
Just read a post on Paolo Massa's Blog, where he requests to add a Flickr/ del.icio.us/ Technorati style of tagging to Webjay music playlists. In hip speak this practice is called a "folksonomy".
Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using simple tags. This feature has begun appearing in a variety of social software. At present, the best examples of online folksonomies are social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, a bookmark sharing site, Flickr, fo...
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| 12. | | Read What I Read (Cont) - Captured: 10-2-2005 22:18:38
A really great article over at Salon (Furl it!) that talks about this whole reading what others read concept and the Web of connections that is being born. Here's a great quote from Howard Rheingold that I think pretty much sums up the concept:
"I look to see who the other people are on del.icio.us who tag the same things that I think are important. Then, I can look and see what else they've tagged ... And isn't that part of the collective intelligence of the Web? You meet people who find thing...
From: Weblogg-ed |
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| 13. | | Bermuda Blogging - Captured: 10-2-2005 22:18:38
So I haven't been able to get online for a couple of days, but frankly, I'm not minding all that much. We're in Bermuda where tomorrow I'll be doing some blogvangelism at the Whitney Institute Middle School in Smith's Parish. God save the Queen. Whitney's principal Freddie Evans is doing great things with integrating technology at his school, and his teachers are really enthusiastic about what they can do with it. I'm looking forward to showing them the ways in which blogs and wikis and the rest...
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| 14. | | Edublogvangelism Goes Global (?) - Captured: 10-2-2005 22:18:39
This week starts a pretty busy couple of months of blogvangelism that should be both fun and interesting. It starts tomorrow with an online session with Webheads from around the world over at Learning Times. I?ll be webcasting about RSS and how it can be used in the classroom, and I?m really looking forward to interacting with a global audience. Then on Friday, it?s off to Bermuda to do a workshop on the Read/Write Web at the Whitney School in Hamilton. (I?m hoping I?ll get a chance to post some...
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| 15. | | Still More Edu Blogs (and Wikis) to Check Out - Captured: 10-2-2005 22:18:40
It's been a long week. Way too much thinking. I'm tired. So instead of holding forth on some convoluted idea in my brain, here instead is a list of some edu-blogs I've Furled of late.
Chico Christian Middle School
AuburnWiki
Apple Students Blog
Simmons College Student Blogs
The Future of Mathematics which today has some ideas about Flickr in the classroom.
Networked Rhetorics from Syracuse U.
English 120 from Iona College.From: Weblogg-ed |
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| 16. | | Passion for Learning - Captured: 10-2-2005 22:18:40
More about learning about your passion to gain a passion for learning...
Found this really great post (via Robert Patterson) at a new blog called Creating Passionate Users that just struck every chord in my brain regarding what's wrong with classroom instruction:
The best learning occurs in a stimulating, active, challenging, interesting, engaging environment. It's how the brain works. The best learning occurs when you move at least some part of your body. The best learning occurs when you're...
From: Weblogg-ed |
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| 17. | | Social Learning - Captured: 10-2-2005 22:18:40
My brain hurts. Sometimes there are just too many interesting, intensely profound ideas floating around out there. What did I do BB? (Before blogs...)
This is going to be one of those work-it-through, brain dump type posts that probably won't make much sense and rightfully shouldn't even see the light of day without more polish, but, what the heck. We had a snow day yesterday. I'm feeling brave.
My zeal for the potential of Weblogs, wikis, RSS etc. is born almost entirely from my reflective se...
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| 18. | | The Potential of Social Softwares - Captured: 10-2-2005 22:18:41
Sometimes it takes me a little while to get my brain wrapped around all these new ideas, and the one I've been struggling with a bit lately is the concept of tagging and folksonomies and the like. I love that f-word, the idea that we can create our own taxonomies for the information we find relevant. We're creating our own personal libraries with our own personal filing systems. I can tag Flickr posts and del.icio.us links not only to give them relevance for me but to associate them with what ot...
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| 20. | | My Yahoo Subscriber Numbers - Captured: 11-2-2005 22:57:23
After publishing our initial RSS market share findings a couple of weeks ago, we received a number of emails from publishers and other interested parties cross-checking our numbers and asking for further detail on our report. A number of these emails asked us to look into supposed anomalies, and we have followed up on all of these requests. As we double checked inquiries against our statistics, we repeatedly found that our numbers accurately reflected the data we were processing, but there was o...
From: Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog |
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| 21. | | Recent Enhancements and The Long View - Captured: 11-2-2005 22:57:23
We have an exciting new service for publishers and some enhancements for a couple of our most popular services. I'd also like to tie these new features to "the long view" of how we see the world of syndication evolving, and the role that FeedBurner will play in this fast-growing space.
Introducing FeedCount™
The new service that is now open to all publishers is FeedCount. This is a customizable chicklet that shows the current number of subscribers your feed reaches. I...
From: Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog |
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| 23. | | When the Blogvangelist Gets Boring - Captured: 12-2-2005 13:47:42
So what happens when someone in a presentation you're doing blogs it as it happens and you find it later through your standing search on Technorati which you set up for the very reason that you can find out what people are writing about you and your ideas?
Speaker insists that the ?founding fathers? would love it if they could see a world in which everyone participated and contributed. He may know his blogs but he don't know history. The founding fathers were upper-class elitists who didn't eve...
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| 24. | | IBM Workplace Is Taking Shape - Captured: 12-2-2005 20:52:28
A year after IBM introduced its IBM Workplace products to the Lotus faithful, the company has refined and improved the new platform and its packaging for Lotusphere 2005. However, it will be at least 18 months before the Workplace platform's collaboration feature set is directly competitive with that of the legacy Lotus Notes/Domino line or parallel technology from Microsoft. Notes/Domino customers that want to move into the IBM Workplace world should keep up with major product releases so they ...
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| 25. | | Flickr gallery - Captured: 13-2-2005 17:09:02
Today was photostuff day. I did a RTFM on the manual of my new minicamera, which I had postponed for some time because it really has a bit too many features. I also took the time to install a free account on the...
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