CategoryGeneral Tech

This cracked me up (from xkcd)
Direct link is this.

Tim Sneath has a nice bunch of presentations available for download. Not particularly handy in their own right (there aren't many notes), but great if you want to pinch a graphic or two (especially from his WPF slides).
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Don't dilly-dally, make sure you rush to get the crucial, gaping-hole fixer Excel patch for the rounding issue :-) How did we live without it?
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From Virtual Hosting again, this gem: 10 Ways a programmer can improve his or her sex life.
LOL, although I can't see a problem with wearing your backpack as high on your back as possible :-)

Just letting you know that this year's Weblog award nominations close on 15 October 2007.
 
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A great article from Virtual Hosting about 10 Creative Ways to Use Amazon Web Services.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) homepage has the details.
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TechNet has an interesting article on the limits of SharePoint Server 2007 that they tested on a single instance of SharePoint Server. Includes the Test environment, results and guidelines. Some guidelines of note: Up to 250,000 web sites per collection Up to 5 million documents per library Acceptable response time to browse to a document library: <3 seconds (Via Mick Badran) Technorati Tags:...

Telerik has a range of controls for Silverlight (currently support version 1.0 only at this stage)
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Barbara Bry puts forward the case for why we need to think carefully about our web usage KPIs
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Thanks to Angus (at Elcom) here's a Top 10 list of reasons why Web sites get hacked. See also the OWASP site.
Technorati Tags: Web security, Hacking