SeeWhy has launched Conversion Manager, an automated Web analytics service that can optimize an ecommerce retailer’s conversion rates by remarketing with e-mail and social media.
When you just use IE, Firefox or Chrome it can be easy to forget that HTTP is about more then just going to check the latest tech news at Engadget. It is a full and rich protocol, and a great way to experience that richness is the powerful command line utility cURL. cURL has a lot of options, but the syntax starts out simple. You can retrieve the…
Let's focus on the Xamarin news first. Xamarin is a young company with a phoenix-like history. Founded in May of 2011 by Miguel de Icaza and the rest of the team that created Mono, Xamarin got its start, effectively, as Ximian (de Icaza's previous company). Ximian was founded way back in 1999, and created Mono, which TechCrunch describes as an…
I need a program that can scan my hard drive for read and write errors so I can partition around them. I REALLY don't do well with numbers but if I can have something that shows an output like the graphical display on gparted that would be perfect. I know a lot of people would recommend replacing the disk but right now I can't as I NEED this…
Rich Colton, Application Integration Manager for Washington Group International (WGI) and Tim Dexter, XML Publisher Group Product Manager speak with Cliff about the Enterprise release of XML Publisher, the new extraction engine that allows developers to create reports that access multiple databases and datasources and WGI's XML strategy and…
When I open the src file in the project folder in Package Explorer in Eclipse, it says the following:
Error retrieving content description for resource '/GuiAdd/src/GuiAdd.Java.'
Now, the directories of the source projects shown in Eclipse Package explorer doesn't always have the source file to link to, causing this message.
I need a…
Microsoft and ChangeBase partner to provide solutions that let small and midsized businesses fix compatibility problems with older applications when they migrate to Windows 7.
Are there any tools available for the following use case:
I am planning to write a complex application and now I just know about the basic functional requirments. I am refining the functionality with more and more details. I am also writing down how to implement this in software architecture perspective.
I am in a situation where there…
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Is it possible to split a large file into smaller files on Windows 2003 using a tool provided/supported/sanctioned by Microsoft?
I see that there are a lot of freeware tools (various zip tools) for this task, but I need to move files off of a production server, thus would like to avoid tools I don't know if I can trust. I would…
I have following problem – some of my files do not have complete ID3 tags and some have typos or small differences in writing - so finally, my portable player sees “Mr. President” as different artist from “Mr President” and so on.
I would need some tool which could search similar tags and then allow me to correct the typos or for…
I am new to version control system and in my new job they are using mercurial.
All other commnads are easy to type from linux but i get to problem with i have to do idff merge of documents with diffput and diffget.
I am using the eclispe and have used the mercurial plugin for eclipse.
So far its commiting the changes but i am not…
During this session, Cliff speaks with Mike Tobin, IT Manager, Oracle Apps Development and Architecture for Qualcomm and Tim Dexter EML Publisher Group Product Manager for Oracle about what XML Publisher is, the business need or reporting headache this solution solves for organizations.
For all the search engines, and maybe especially for Google, topical relevance is everything. The words on your webpage will get ranked for relevance on one or more topics or categories. There are probably 100 or more other factors that go into a Google ranking, most of which we will never know, but the major ranking factor has to…
I saw this by Adam on Twitter today:
Interesting. Let's try it. Here's my method "getCustomerId". I select it, right-click, and choose "Find Usages" (or press Alt-F7):
A nice dialog appears:
Then click "Find" and, guess what, this is what I see (click to enlarge it):
Clearly, as you can see, I'm not…
Keywords are the life blood for search engine optimization. SEO starts with keyword research. Hence you need to be very careful while choosing keywords as your whole SEO campaign is based on your keywords.
I'm using Acrobat X pro for Windows.
I found that two lines of tool bar takes too much space.
So I would like to combine them into one line, or move them to left or right side.
I do know that I can hide those tool bars by Ctrl+H.
But I want to use them without hiding.
Since most documents I use are letter size and portrait type,…
I am developing a forum for a research project, i am using Vanilla forum (though i am not tied to this yet). Another feature of this site will be a personal journal/diary/blog. Only the user and administrators will have access to the journal. The journal does not need any advanced features.
Does anybody have any suggestions on…
We have a team of roughly ~8 devs who regularly work on the same feature over the course of a 3 week sprint. It isn't quite pair programming, but in our current workflow devs regularly push up incomplete code for a colleague to complete. This worked fine before we introduced Gerrit, but now our commits need to represent chunks…
Small Business Search Engine Optimization is a relatively new discipline designed to drive targeted traffic to your website and convert those visitors to paying customers. Small Business SEO is a way to get a competitive edge on your competition and at the same time, grow your business by leaps and bounds.
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "Canonical's Steve Conklin presented the Patchtracker in the kernel roundtable during the first day of the international Ubuntu Developer Summit. "