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>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"
Improve your CSS skills using .LESS, a free, open-source port of Ruby's LESS library. LESS (and .LESS, by extension) is a parser that allows web developers to create style sheets using new and improved language features, including variables, operations, mix-ins, and nested rules.
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.
OS Roundup: What does an enterprise server OS look like in your perfect world? Find out how some real-world options -- from Linux to Unix to Windows to Mac OS X -- might stack up in a dream universe.
OS Roundup: What does an enterprise server OS look like in your perfect world? Find out how some real-world options -- from Linux to Unix to Windows to Mac OS X -- might stack up in a dream universe.
<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."
<b>ars Technica:</b> "As it turns out, there is no way to fully guarantee that identity theft won't happen, no matter what someone puts on the side of a truck."
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.
<b>Wazi:</b> "Looking for ways to save money on your computing infrastructure? Heard about Linux uptime but need to do more research? You're not alone. Community Linux distros have become increasingly popular within the enterprise as organizations look to cut costs without compromising on functionality and reliability."
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.
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.
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.
MySQL's Latin-1 default encoding combined with MySQL 4.1.12's (or greater) UTF8 encoding allows the maximum number of characters codes, however incoming data with different character encoding can still present problems. Rob Gravelle shows you how to avoid problems before a lot of work is required to undo the damage.