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| 2. |  | April Reagan is Blogging  - Captured: 5-2-2005 1:45:00
April Reagan is a box PM for the Visual C++ team and she's one of my favorite people over in building 41. She's got a blog now and in her first post she explains, among other things, what a box PM is. Check out her blog here (rss). Here's a link to her first post, be sure to stop by and say hi!
Introduction: A Day in the Life of a Box PM
A box program manager is basically a project manager without any direct reports (unless, of course you are a box PM lead). In other words, ...
From: BufferOverrun |
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| 3. | | Web services, DataSets and now...Business Objects - Captured: 24-1-2005 17:10:21
Sahil has some interesting
thoughts on the web service/DataSet question as well.
He spends some time discussing whether
“business objects” should be sent via a web service. His definition of
“business object” doesn’t match mine, and is closer to Fowler’s
data transfer object (DTO) I think.
It is important to remember that
web services only move boring data. No
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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. | | Attack of the Giant rAnts II: The Revenge of the Drama Queens - Captured: 7-2-2005 7:26:18
OK
everyone, it’s rant time again. This
one goes out to all the drama queens out there…OK wait, that’s not right. You
Drama Queens don’t know who you are, because you have your head so completely
wrapped up in your “me-verse” that you have no clue that what I’m
talking about applies to you. Never Mind…go
about your business.
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From: Anomalous Data |
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| 6. | | Now everybody do the propaganda! - Captured: 4-2-2005 14:49:31
The
February issue of The Reader’s Digest has an article entitled “
America
’s Worst Judges”.
It
begins, as many regressivist commentaries on a variety of subjects do, by asking you
to imagine that you’re the victim of a crime. Because
we all know how much that sort of imagery contributes to rational thought.
Then
it goes for the ...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 7. | | 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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| 8. | | Think I have everything blog-related moved over, and redirected - Captured: 13-2-2005 1:16:10
I think the transition to dasBlog (from BlogX)
on the new hosting provider is in relatively good shape. The blog's up, and it appears
that I've gotten URL rewriting/redirecting/link fixing (ala HTTP error 301) working
for old permalinks, old categories, the old root file, and RSS. All old links
and references should still work, by automagically changing to the new location. I
just had Newsgator update news and it automatically updated its data store t...
From: Andrew's Musings |
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| 10. | | Maverick support. - Captured: 15-2-2005 18:48:00
One of the (not so intentional) assumptions built into the mapping schema technologies of SqlXml is that the hierarchy of the target Xml roughly matched the PK/ FK relationships on the underlying relation source. In other words, elements are mapped to tables and the hierarchy of two elements is established in the instance document via joining along key relationships. The generalized rule is that two elements in a mapping schema must have a sql:relationship defined between them that ...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 11. | | Free mp3: And Am I Born to Die - Captured: 16-2-2005 10:40:42
This little composition: And Am I Born to Die is something I put together last week... it is a little composition I threw together while learning some new software -- made up out of several traditional tunes.
Click here for full length, free mp3:
And Am I Born to Die by Kent Gustavson
All of the singing is my voice, but it's been altered by some amusing tricks in the studio. The tunes are:
1)And Am I Born to Die (Idumea) by Ananias Davisson and Charles Wesley.
2) Whiskey Before Bre...
From: Three Sumach-Red Dogs I Run With |
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| 12. | | Google Page Rank Explained - Captured: 16-2-2005 23:57:53
There's an excellent post at Webmaster World on Google Page Rank Basics. Macro goes through a pretty good explanation and ends up with this: "If PR is virtually useless from the point of view of Google traffic then why did you ramble on for so long and cover all those points?" Visit WMW to view the answer.
After you finish that, head on over to Search Engine Watch forums and read Michael
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 13. | | Spyware Act Loses Its Cookies - Captured: 17-2-2005 2:02:04
Congress today took another step forward with their attempt at a piece of anti-spyware legislation by removing the language that included third party cookies as potentially liable under the law. This makes sense, as the cookie issue was likely to be a problem. However, it's not entirely clear if the rest of the law is any good. It tries to ban "phishing, keystroke logging, homepage hijacking and ads that can't be closed except by shutting down a computer." However, it seems like most of thes...
From: Techdirt |
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| 14. | | Death Squads. Guns. Drugs. Hostages... - Captured: 18-2-2005 18:09:51
Oh good…we get
John Negroponte for our National Intelligence Director. A
man who claims he couldn’t even detect death squads that were being conducted
under his nose, being run by a man with whom he had daily contact.
Nobody
argues with the undeniable fact he has been very successful in everything he has ever
done. Everyone
agrees he was very effective in carrying out the Reagan Administrations goals in
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From: Anomalous Data |
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| 15. | | Cablevision Understands The Battle For Marketshare - Captured: 18-2-2005 20:21:54
While other cable companies are still focused on ways to come up with more pricey premium services to offer customers (the "bleed 'em dry while we can" approach), Cablevision continues to show they have a much better understanding of the ongoing battle for broadband dominance. The company which started offering a bundle that included free VoIP for new customers, discovered (as many studies have shown) that such bundles were a huge success. They got many more people to sign up and (more importa...
From: Techdirt |
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| 16. | | Appeals Court Questions FCCs Authority On Broadcast Flags And Washing Machines - Captured: 22-2-2005 21:37:05
As noted previously, a Federal appeals court is hearing a case wondering whether or not the FCC has the authority to impose the broadcast flag mandate, without getting specific permission from Congress. It sounds like the court may be skeptical of the FCC's authority, but that doesn't mean they'll rule against the Broadcast Flag. There were two separate quotes, both using "washing machines" as an example, wondering if the FCC was overstepping its bounds. Judge Harry Edwards: "You're out there...
From: Techdirt |
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| 17. | | MSN Search to RSS - Captured: 23-2-2005 16:31:20
In the never ending search for RSS search feeds, it appears MSN now allows you to subscribe to the results of your query. If you haven't gotten your brain wrapped around this concept, you need to. Right now. You can be researching 24/7 if you have RSS feeds which are bringing search results to you (or your students). Enter your search once, create the feed, plop it in your aggregator and sit back and watch what happens.
I just love this stuff. Really. I do.
Actually, if you haven't played with...
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| 18. | | Wiki as Old School Reporting - Captured: 23-2-2005 16:31:28
The Tyee newspaper out of British Columbia has an interesting article about Wikipedia and it's coverage of the Russian school hostage story a couple of months ago.
On the morning of September 1, 2004, a small armed force
captured a school in western Russian town of Beslan, taking hundreds of
students hostage.
One day later, a small article describing the event appeared on Wikipedia.org,
an open-source encyclopedia. Over the next 24 ho...
From: Weblogg-ed |
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| 19. | | China Working On Anti-Spam Law - Captured: 25-2-2005 23:47:45
A lot of spam ends up coming via servers in China. Many people have tried to convince the Chinese government to do something about it, but so far they've been pretty slow. Last year, once they realized that political opponents were sending out "subversive" political spam, it suddenly seemed worthwhile for the Chinese government to take notice. According to some reports, China is about to come out with an anti-spam law. Of course, given the way the Chinese government works when it comes to in...
From: Techdirt |
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| 20. | | Interesting Contest at Digital River - Captured: 27-2-2005 22:04:56
Digital River is running a contest among their employees. The contest is among Digital River employees and started on the first of this December. The contest ends on January 20th 2005. The intent of the contest is to provide Digital River's rank-and-file employees more insight into the digital good's marketplace. Digital River is awarding several small prizes for most sales, the highest basket close rates, the highest number of unique visitors, and the highest average order volume. There are...
From: A Software Marketing Blog |
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| 21. | | Combatting Software Piracy in Pakistan - Captured: 27-2-2005 22:04:56
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has announced a 30-day truce in its fight against pirated software users in Pakistan from December 1, during which companies and organisations across the country can install licensed software without the risk of police raids, legal action or penalties.
"The BSA will take strict legal action against the businesses and organisations using unauthorised software after the truce ends on December 30," said Al Redha, the BSA's Middle East co-c...
From: A Software Marketing Blog |
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| 22. | | Why Im not a Feminist. - Captured: 1-3-2005 21:29:21
I’ve given a lot of thought as to why I’m not a feminist. I
used to think I was a feminist…but I’ve been told I’m not –
repeatedly – by people who would know. Women’s
Studies Professors, for instance.
I’m
all for equal opportunity. Equal pay
for equal work…check. Getting equity
in health care…women actually get...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 23. | | Deckchair Danny and Doc Watson - Captured: 5-3-2005 11:25:22
If you haven't seen Deckchair Danny -- then you need to go find it at your local library on DVD, bring it home, and watch it! I had heard tell of this film -- but had no idea that it would be so profoundly good, goodly profound and everything else.
And since it is only a couple of days past Doc Watson's birthday, and I have been researching him for a book I would like to write about him, I thought immediately of him as I watched this film...
Danny is just a fellow trying to get buy in the ...
From: Three Sumach-Red Dogs I Run With |
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| 24. | | Best Gambling Directory Online Searching for reput... - Captured: 12-3-2005 16:00:23
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| 25. | | That Stuff Doesnt Work in The Street!
More tales... - Captured: 24-2-2005 8:06:56
That Stuff Doesn't Work in The Street!
More tales from the dojo and the street? Yup, I'm going to talk about martial arts again! The dojo is where we are instructed in the mechanics of martial arts techniques and mentored in the self defense applications of these techniques. During this time, most of the obvious strengths and weaknesses are distinctly showcased. Our precious time that we've spent in the dojo, training any number of defensive and offensive techniques, ends up at some t...
From: Crime: Information and Prevention |
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