Tip ofthe Trade: Want to use Grep without including some directories? Here's a simple, yet efficient way, for the open-source software to find what you're looking for.
Software development is a collection oftrade offs; performance for speed to market, quick & dirty vs. maintainable, on and on. Most tend to sacrifice user experience at some level for time to market, other do not consider maintainability, reliability....(read more)...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.
Tip ofthe Trade: VirtualBox makes it easy to set up and run virtual machines on your own desktop. It is not perfect, however, and by default, the guest VM is invisible to the host or any other machines on the network. Here's an easy way to relay instructions to it.
Tip ofthe Trade: If you've ever felt the need to scribble notes on your PDFs without bringing dead trees into the equation, consider the open-source software, Okular, a KDE document reader that can read multiple document formats and allows the user to annotate files as she reads.
Context is one ofthe core classes of Android, and many functions it contains are useful in Android library projects, particularly accessing configuration. What are thetrade offs involved in accessing the Context in a library, either by injection or by subclassing Application in the library, and subclassing that in the application.
Does this make the application brittle or introduce inappropriate coupling?
Have you ever browsed through various websites dealing over a variety of subjects and information as well as trade and commerce? There are several functions that are enabled within a site. You may have made a certain payment for an airline ticket online or even an online auction where you made a bid for a certain product.
<b>Engadget:</b> "the Taiwanese phone manufacturer just filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, asking for importation and sales ofthe iPhone, iPad, and iPod be halted due to alleged infringement of five patents."
Tip ofthe Trade: Backspace and delete may seem the same, but often they are not. This is particularly problematic when using Screen on OSX Terminal. Here are three easy fixes.
Writing web contents is one ofthe most important factors for the proper Search Engine Optimization and thereby this is becoming a profitable trade with rapid progress. Web content writing is one ofthe most essential factors for any Search Engine Optimization and is one ofthe most interesting jobs these days.
Calvin Coolidge once said, "advertising is the life oftrade". But as a small business, advertising can be costly and the returns that you see might not be immediate but instead take time to manifest.
Tip ofthe Trade: There are three major ways of invoking bash, all of which behave differently when reading in settings files. The one to pick depends on the scope and implementation ofthe settings being changed.
Tip ofthe Trade: Finding a way to ignore files or directories in Subversion so they are not included in svn status output is easy; figuring out the exact syntax is not. Here's are way to simplify this Linux server management quagmire.
<b>Tip ofthe Trade:</b> "While investigating its use to sys admins, I came across this photo of someone using it to read shared docs from a server room."
New figures from the Business Software Alliance finds that while software piracy has leveled off in the U.S., thetradeof stolen or counterfeit software is still booming.
Tip ofthe Trade: A reader weighs in on the backspace/delete terminal problem. Although the solution doesn't solve the problem at hand, it does lead to some interesting open source software troubleshooting.
<b>ars Technica:</b> "The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) isn't just another secret treaty—it's a way of life. If ACTA passes in anything like its current form, it will create an entirely new international secretariat to administer and extend the agreement."
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Google aurait eu une attitude irresponsable lors du lancement de Buzz
Qui révèlerait son mépris de la vie privée, selon une officielle américaine de la FTC
Google n'en finit pas de s'attirer les critiques depuis l'affaire Buzz.
L'Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) avait ouvert les hostilités en déposant une plainte pour violation de la vie privée devant la Federal Trade Commission.
Link building has grown significantly in importance in Search Engine Optimization. You can trade links, as well as purchase and sell them, though it is not something you openly do, and in many cases, if found out you can get your website removed.
Virtually Speaking: Both EMC and Citrix are holding their major trade shows this week, and both have positioned cloud computing front and center. Are enterprises biting?
<b>Help Net Security: </b>"The recent Facebook privacy changes, the public outcry they caused and the petition by a group of U.S. senators to the Federal Trade Commission to restrict the amount of personal information that online social networks can use."
<b>Tip ofthe Trade:</b> "A reader, Steve Hampson, suggested another solution to the backspace/delete terminal problem: Try typing stty dec on the offending terminal."
As a small business owner, you are most likely an expert in your field. You know your trade, and have found offline advertising techniques that work for your business. But is there another way to gain leads, attract new customers and build your reputation to the masses?