Buoyed by eBay's solid fourth quarter, spending for online advertising closed the year on a high note, posting a record high in absolute dollars, according to research firm IDC.
<b>SilverWav's Journal:</b> "Reduce the notify-osd time-out to 3 seconds, rather than the default 10. Its amazing how much this changed my appreciation of the notifications... I have found the annoyance is mainly based on them being on screen too long"
Sometimes when you have all kinds of data what you really need is XML. LINQ to XML let's you employ functional construction to convert your data into XML.
Hard-Core Hardware: It isn't often a data center gets to install the latest in servers, blades, storage and networking gear from Day One. Yet the Emerson data center in St. Louis, Missouri had just that opportunity.
Hard-Core Hardware: It isn't often a data center gets to install the latest in servers, blades, storage and networking gear from Day One. Yet the Emerson data center in St. Louis, Missouri had just that opportunity.
<b>WorksWithU:</b> "A couple weeks ago, I wrote some posts on GNOME Shell which included a number of criticisms of the desktop environment that will likely become Ubuntu'S default at some point in the future. Jon McCann, lead designer for GNOME Shell, recently got in touch to offer his responses to the problems I found with the new interface"
<b>BBC News:</b> "The controversial Digital Economy Bill has been passed into law during the wash-up period, which sees outstanding legislation rushed through before a general election."
Less well known than inner and outer joins is the Cartesian product, which produces every possible combination of records between the two tables. Doug Steele offers four examples to demonstrate some legitimate uses for Cartesian products.
<b>ESP Software Patents News:</b> "The following is a transcript of a talk given in New Zealand, 2010. Andrew Tridgell discusses why reading patents is usually a good idea, how to read a patent, and how to work through it with a lawyer to build a solid defence."
Scaling IT systems either breeds high levels of automation to make the infrastructure manageable, or it ends up breeding a huge mess. Here are five signs that you need to mend your ways.
<b>Christofoo Review: </b>"Right now, Lenny (5.0) is the stable release, and Squeeze (6.0) is in testing. Sometime "soon" Squeeze will get frozen, which means the regular flow of package migration will stop, and from then on it will only get bug and security fixes through a method of back-porting."
Security experts are torn between just how far the government and the private sector should go to protect critical data from cyber criminals without violating individual rights.
Beginning with basic file I/O concepts this article wraps up by demonstrating how you can use the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) in .NET 4.0 to map text file data to objects.
The creation of database indexes is the last thing developers and database designers think about--almost an afterthought. Greg Larsen shows you some of the dos and don'ts of indexing to help you pick reasonable indexes at design time.
<b>GHacks:</b> "Although there are many naysayers out there – who seem to either only want more of the same or who doubt the ability of any developer to release anything worth while – I trust that GNOME 3 is going to make quite a major impression."