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In the past two years, I have been developing .NET from my MacBook by running Windows XP into VM Ware and more recently into Virtual Box from OS X. This way, I could install Visual Studio and be able to work seamlessly.
But, this way of working has a major down side: it kills the battery of my laptop……
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Private Const ACCENT As String = “ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåÒÓÔÕÖØòóôõöøÈÉÊËèéêëÌÍÎÏìíîïÙÚÛÜùúûüÿÑñÇç”
Private Const SANSACCENT As String = “AAAAAAaaaaaaOOOOOOooooooEEEEeeeeIIIIiiiiUUUUuuuuyNnCc”
Public Shared Function FormatForUrl(ByVal uriBase As String) As String
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(uriBase)…
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Introduction
In this article, I’ll show how to get a random subset of data from a DataTable. This is useful when you already have queries that are filtered correctly but returns all the rows.
Analysis
I came across this situation when I wanted to display a random tag cloud. I already had the…
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Surface is magic. Everyone using it seems to think that way. And I have to be honest, after working for almost 2 years with the platform I still get that special feeling the moment I turn on the unit to do some more work. The whole user experience, the rich environment of the SDK, the touch, even…
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India is a country of color, of unity in diversity and of culture. It?s a land of the saints and seers. It?s a land where languages change every six miles. At the behest of a technically demanding wo... [Author: David Jackson - Computers and Internet - August 31, 2009]
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How do software houses like Microsoft or anti-virus companies patch/update their software?
Anti virus companies dont send the complete executable; only new virus signatures I suppose. Similarly, Ive noticed microsoft sends certain files to the '$NtUninstallKB......$' folder that it creates when…
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We have a Java-based application that, to date, we've been distributing as a tarball with instructions for deploying. It's mostly self-contained so deployment is fairly straight-forward:
Untar on the disk you'd like it to live on;
Make sure Java is in your path and a suitable distro and version;
Verify…
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I develop and maintain a number of add-ons and utilities for various widget (mainly aMember) which generally means I need to install php based codes onto other people's systems. Whilst I have a VPS and have access to rsync and all sorts of yummy tools most of the people I deal with have a basic ftp…
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The Mac App store seems like an ideal distribution channel for apps made specifically for OSX. However, due to the high quantity of apps, I wasn't sure if there was an actual chance of my app making money.
What would be a reasonable amount of sales from the Mac App Store for an app made by a small…
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I'm working on an app which acts as a client for our web service. We sell this service to businesses, and we want to distribute the app to their employees for free. The app will be customised for each client.
If we were in the US, my understanding is that we'd ask them to enrol in the volume purchasing…
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