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• Google Loon–A network of balloons to provide internet to everyone

  - by Gopinath

  Google once just a super powerful search engine provider and now they are venturing in to a lot of interesting non software projects like self driving cars, glasses that beam information right on to your eye balls, high speed internet services @ 1 Giga bytes per second. A recent addition to this innovative list is Google Loon – a network of flying balloons that provide internet access to remote parts of the world where it is not feasible for many governments/corporate to provider internet services. Google says there are several billions of people around the world who don’t have access to internet and Google Loon aim is to provide internet facilities to all these people. A pilot project is started couple of days ago by launching 30 balloons into stratosphere from New Zealand. These balloons fly 20 Kilometers above earth(much higher than where aero planes fly) and they beam internet to homes having Loon receiver wirelessly. Checkout the embedded introductory video on Google Loon What is in it for Google? Why is Google getting into these type of projects and what is in it for them? Google is the gateway to web and majority of people find information on web using Google Services/Software. So providing internet facilities to more people means, more people using Google services and it in turn contributes to their revenue growth. Google is not a charity, they do all these projects to earn money just like every other corporate. The best part is while earning money they are touching lives of billions of people in a positive way. Just imagine everyone in the world connected and have ability to take informed decisions irrespective of whether they live in developed countries or underprivileged parts of the world! Wow that will be a beautiful day. Further reading Google Loon website Google unveils its Project Loon Wi-Fi balloons – in pictures Google flies Internet balloons in stratosphere for a “network in the sky” How Google Will Use High-Flying Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands Good discussion on Google Loon at Hacker News community

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• checking for collision detection

  - by bill

  I am trying to create a game where you have a player and you can move right,left, and jump. kind of like mario but its not a side scroller. also i want to use 2d array to make a tile map. my big problem is that i dont understand how to check for collision. i spend about 2 week thinking about this and i came up with 2 solution but they both have problems. let say my map is: 0 = sky 1 = player 2 = ground 00000 10002 22022 Solution 1: move the '1'(player) and update the map less say player wants to move right, then x+=grid[x+1][y] this make the collision easy bc you can just check if if(grid[x][y+1] == 2){ //player is standing on top of ground } problem with this when u hit right key player will move (x*Titlewidth) to right. and as you can see the animation wont look smooth. Solution 2: move player and dont update map player_x += 2 this will make the animation more smoother bc i am just moving 2 pixels. problem1: i cant update map bc if player some times will be middle of int(2d array). but thats ok sinces its not a side scroller so updating the map is not a big deal. problem2: only way to check for collision is to use java intersection method. but then player have to be atleast 1 or 2 pixel in ground in order to check for collision. and as you can see that wont look good too. plz note this is my first collision game in java. so plz try to explain alot otherwise i wont understand it.

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• How can I perform 2D side-scroller collision checks in a tile-based map?

  - by bill

  I am trying to create a game where you have a player that can move horizontally and jump. It's kind of like Mario but it isn't a side scroller. I'm using a 2D array to implement a tile map. My problem is that I don't understand how to check for collisions using this implementation. After spending about two weeks thinking about it, I've got two possible solutions, but both of them have some problems. Let's say that my map is defined by the following tiles: 0 = sky 1 = player 2 = ground The data for the map itself might look like: 00000 10002 22022 For solution 1, I'd move the player (the 1) a complete tile and update the map directly. This make the collision easy because you can check if the player is touching the ground simply by looking at the tile directly below the player: // x and y are the tile coordinates of the player. The tile origin is the upper-left. if (grid[x][y+1] == 2){ // The player is standing on top of a ground tile. } The problem with this approach is that the player moves in discrete tile steps, so the animation isn't smooth. For solution 2, I thought about moving the player via pixel coordinates and not updating the tile map. This will make the animation much smoother because I have a smaller movement unit per frame. However, this means I can't really accurately store the player in the tile map because sometimes he would logically be between two tiles. But the bigger problem here is that I think the only way to check for collision is to use Java's intersection method, which means the player would need to be at least a single pixel "into" the ground to register collision, and that won't look good. How can I solve this problem?

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• CodePlex Daily Summary for Tuesday, June 25, 2013

  CodePlex Daily Summary for Tuesday, June 25, 2013Popular ReleasesCrmRestKit.js: CrmRestKit-2.6.1.js: Improvments for "ByQueryAll": Instead of defering unit all records are loaded, the progress-handler is invoked for each 50 records Added "progress-handler" support for "ByQueryAll" See: http://api.jquery.com/deferred.notify/* See Unit-tests for details ('Retrieve all with progress notification')VG-Ripper & PG-Ripper: VG-Ripper 2.9.44: changes NEW: Added Support for "ImgChili.net" links FIXED: Auto UpdaterMinesweeper by S. Joshi: Minesweeper 1.0.0.1: Zipped!Alfa: Alfa.Common 1.0.4923: Removed useless property ErrorMessage from StringRegularExpressionValidationRule Repaired ErrorWindow and disabled report button after click action Implemented: DateTimeRangeValidationRule DateTimeValidationRule DateValidationRule NotEmptyValidationRule NotNullValidationRule RequiredValidationRule StringMaxLengthValidationRule StringMinLengthValidationRule TimeValidationRule DateTimeToStringConverter DecimalToStringConverter StringToDateTimeConverter StringToDecima...Document.Editor: 2013.25: What's new for Document.Editor 2013.25: Improved Spell Check support Improved User Interface Minor Bug Fix's, improvements and speed upsStyleMVVM: 3.0.2: This is a minor feature and bug fix release Features: ExportWhenDebuggerIsAttacedAttribute - new attribute that marks an attribute to only be exported when the debugger is attahced InjectedFilterAttributeFilterProvider - new Attribute Filter provider for MVC that injects the attributes Performance Improvements - minor speed improvements all over, and Import collections is now 50% faster Bug Fixes: Open Generic Constraints are now respected when finding exports Fix for fluent registrat...Base64 File Converter: First release: - One file can be converted at a time. - Bytes to Base64 and Base64 to Bytes conversions are availableADExtractor - work with Active-Directory: V1.3.0.2: 1.3.0.2- added optional value-index to properties - added new aggregation "Literal" to pass-through values - added new SQL commandline-switch --db to override the connection string - added new global commandline-switch --quiet to reduce output to minimum 1.3.0.1- sub-property resolution now working with aggregation (ie. All(member.objectGuid)) 1.3.0.0- added correct formatting for guids (GuidFormatter)EMICHAG: EMICHAG NETMF 4.2: Alpha release of the 4.2 version.WPF Composites: Version 4.3.0: In this Beta release, I broke my code out into two separate projects. There is a core FasterWPF.dll with the minimal required functionality. This can run with only the Aero.dll and the Rx .dll's. Then, I have a FasterWPFExtras .dll that requires and supports the Extended WPF Toolkit™ Community Edition V 1.9.0 (including Xceed DataGrid) and the Thriple .dll. This is for developers who want more . . . Finally, you may notice the other OPTIONAL .dll's available in the download such as the Dyn...Windows.Forms.Controls Revisited (SSTA.WinForms): SSTA.WinForms 1.0.0: Latest stable releaseAscend 3D: Ascend 2.0: Release notes: Implemented bone/armature animation Refactored class hierarchy and naming Addressed high CPU usage issue during animation Updated the Blender exporter and Ascend model format (now XML) Created AscendViewer, a tool for viewing Ascend modelsIndent Guides for Visual Studio: Indent Guides v13: ImportantThis release does not support Visual Studio 2010. The latest stable release for VS 2010 is v12.1. Version History Changed in v13 Added page width guide lines Added guide highlighting options Fixed guides appearing over collapsed blocks Fixed guides not appearing in newly opened files Fixed some potential crashes Fixed lines going through pragma statements Various updates for VS 2012 and VS 2013 Removed VS 2010 support Changed in v12.1: Fixed crash when unable to start...Fluent Ribbon Control Suite: Fluent Ribbon Control Suite 2.1.0 - Prerelease d: Fluent Ribbon Control Suite 2.1.0 - Prerelease d(supports .NET 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5) Includes: Fluent.dll (with .pdb and .xml) Showcase Application Samples (not for .NET 3.5) Foundation (Tabs, Groups, Contextual Tabs, Quick Access Toolbar, Backstage) Resizing (ribbon reducing & enlarging principles) Galleries (Gallery in ContextMenu, InRibbonGallery) MVVM (shows how to use this library with Model-View-ViewModel pattern) KeyTips ScreenTips Toolbars ColorGallery *Walkthrough (do...Magick.NET: Magick.NET 6.8.5.1001: Magick.NET compiled against ImageMagick 6.8.5.10. Breaking changes: - MagickNET.Initialize has been made obsolete because the ImageMagick files in the directory are no longer necessary. - MagickGeometry is no longer IDisposable. - Renamed dll's so they include the platform name. - Image profiles can now only be accessed and modified with ImageProfile classes. - Renamed DrawableBase to Drawable. - Removed Args part of PathArc/PathCurvetoArgs/PathQuadraticCurvetoArgs classes. The...Three-Dimensional Maneuver Gear for Minecraft: TDMG 1.1.0.0 for 1.5.2: CodePlex???(????????) ?????????(???1/4) ??????????? ?????????? ???????????(??????????) ??????????????????????? ↑????、?????????????????????(???????) ???、??????????、?????????????????????、????????1.5?????????? Shift+W(????)??????????????????10°、?10°(?????????)???Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions 2012: HyperVMPE2012 (v1.0.1.126): Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions 2012 Beta ReleaseOutlook 2013 Add-In: Email appointments: This new version includes the following changes: - Ability to drag emails to the calendar to create appointments. Will gather all the recipients from all the emails and create an appointment on the day you drop the emails, with the text and subject of the last selected email (if more than one selected). - Increased maximum of numbers to display appointments to 30. You will have to uninstall the previous version (add/remove programs) if you had installed it before. Before unzipping the file...Caliburn Micro: WPF, Silverlight, WP7 and WinRT/Metro made easy.: Caliburn.Micro v1.5.2: v1.5.2 - This is a service release. We've fixed a number of issues with Tasks and IoC. We've made some consistency improvements across platforms and fixed a number of minor bugs. See changes.txt for details. Packages Available on Nuget Caliburn.Micro – The full framework compiled into an assembly. Caliburn.Micro.Start - Includes Caliburn.Micro plus a starting bootstrapper, view model and view. Caliburn.Micro.Container – The Caliburn.Micro inversion of control container (IoC); source code...SQL Compact Query Analyzer: 1.0.1.1511: Beta build of SQL Compact Query Analyzer Bug fixes: - Resolved issue where the application crashes when loading a database that contains tables without a primary key Features: - Displays database information (database version, filename, size, creation date) - Displays schema summary (number of tables, columns, primary keys, identity fields, nullable fields) - Displays the information schema views - Displays column information (database type, clr type, max length, allows null, etc) - Support...New Projectsalgorithm interview: Write some code for programming interview questionsAmbiTrack: AmbiTrack provides marker-free localization and tracking using an array of cameras, e.g. the PlayStation Eye.DSeX DragonSpeak eXtended Editor: Furcadia DragonSpeak EditorEasyProject: easy project is finel engineering project this sys made for easy way to manage emploees of a small business or organization .EDIVisualizer SDK: EDIVisualizer SDK is a software developpement kit (SDK) for creating plugin used by EDIVisualizer program.Flame: Interactive shell for scripting in IronRuby IronPython Powershell C#, with syntax highlighting, autocomplete,and for easily work within a .NET framework consoleFusion-io MS SQL Server scripts: Fusion-io's Sumeet Bansal shows how Microsoft SQL Server users can quickly determine whether their database will benefit from Fusion-io ioMemory products.hotelprimero: Proyecto de hotelImage filters: It's a simple image filter :)JSLint.NET: JSLint.NET is a wrapper for Douglas Crockford's JSLint, the JavaScript code quality tool. It can validate JavaScript anywhere .NET runs.KZ.Express.H: KZ.Express.Hmoleshop: moleshop???asp.net ???????B2C????，????????.net???????????。moleshop??asp.net mvc 4.0???，???.net 4.0??。 moleshop???????，??AL2.0 ????，????????????????，????????。PDF Generator Net Free Xml Parser: PDF Generator Net Free Xml Parser?XML?????????????????????。?????????????????????CSV?????????PDF???????????????????????。ScreenCatcher: ScreenCatcher is a program for creating screenshots.SharePoint Configuration Guidance for 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance – SP 2013: This CodePlex project provides the Paragon Solutions configurations and code to support 21 CFR Part 11 compliance with SharePoint 2013.Sky Editor: Save file editor for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky with limited support for Explorers of Time and DarknessTRANCIS: For foundation and runnning online operations for Trancis.UGSF GRAND OUEST: UGSF GRAND OUESTWP.JS: WP.JS (Windows Phone (dot) Javascript) aims to be a compelling library for developing HTML5-based applications for Windows Phone 8.X-Aurora: X-Aurora ?? 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• Open World Day 2

  - by Antony Reynolds

  A Day in the Life of an Oracle OpenWorld Attendee Part III My second full day started with me waking up and realising that I was supposed to meet my friend Tejas Joshi (co-author of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Handbook) at the station in 20 minutes!  Needless to say I didn’t make it, but then I felt better later when I found out he had caught the wrong shuttle bus and ended up at the airport instead of the BART! The morning was spent in the Authors Seminar arranged to give authors a whirlwind tour of Oracle Product updates and strategy plans.  It was useful to see what was happening in areas I knew little or nothing about.  In the afternoon I wandered around Java One, a very different show to OpenWorld with much more bleeding edge stuff and just plain blue sky thinking.  Of course who couldn’t love a show with a full size Duke wondering around and available for photographs. Attended a presentation on a highly available Weblogic JMS environment wich did a great job of laying out to architect a highly available solution. Dinner with customers and then collapsed exhausted into bed!

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• Spam bot constantly hitting our site 800-1,000 times a day. Causing loss in sales

  - by akaDanPaul

  For the past 5 months our site has been receiving hits from these 4 sites below; sheratonbd.com newsheraton.com newsheration.com newsheratonltd.com Typically the exact url they come from looks something like this; http://www.newsheraton.com/ClickEarnArea.aspx?loginsession_expiredlogin=85 The spam bot goes to our homepage and stays there for about 1 min and then exist. Luckily we have some pretty beefy servers so it hasn't even come close to overloading our servers yet. Last month I started blocking the IP address's of the spam bots but they seem to keep getting new ones everyday. So far I have blocked over 200 IP address's, below are a few of the ones I have blocked. They all come from Bangladesh. 58.97.238.214 58.97.149.132 180.234.109.108 180.149.31.221 117.18.231.5 117.18.231.12 Since this has been going on for the past 5 months our real site traffic has started to drop, and everyday our orders get lower and lower. Also since these spam bots simply go to our homepage and then leave our bounce rate in analytics has sky rocketed. My questions are; Is it possible that these spam bots are affecting our SEO? 60% of our orders come from natural search, and since this whole thing has started orders have slowly been dropping. What would be the reason someone would want to waste resources in doing this to our site? IP's aren't free and either are domain names, what would be the goal in doing this to us? We have google adwords but don't advertise on extended networks nor advertise in Bangladesh since we don't ship there so they are not making money on adsense. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this? What did you do and what was the final out come?

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• How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7

  - by The Geek

  Wireless network settings in Windows 7 are global across all users, but there’s a little-known option that lets you switch them to per-user, so each user has access to only the networks they are allowed to connect to. Here’s how it all works. How is this useful? Maybe you want to prevent a particular user from accessing the internet—if you don’t give them the wireless password, they won’t be able to get online. This could be very useful if you’ve got mini-people playing games on the family PC, but you don’t want them getting online Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7 How to Use Google Chrome as Your Default PDF Reader (the Easy Way) How To Remove People and Objects From Photographs In Photoshop Ask How-To Geek: How Can I Monitor My Bandwidth Usage? Internet Explorer 9 RC Now Available: Here’s the Most Interesting New Stuff Here’s a Super Simple Trick to Defeating Fake Anti-Virus Malware The Citroen GT – An Awesome Video Game Car Brought to Life [Video] Final Man vs. Machine Round of Jeopardy Unfolds; Watson Dominates Give Chromium-Based Browser Desktop Notifications a Native System Look in Ubuntu Chrome Time Track Is a Simple Task Time Tracker Google Sky Map Turns Your Android Phone into a Digital Telescope Walking Through a Seaside Village Wallpaper

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• The Iron Bird Approach

  - by David Paquette

  It turns out that designing software is not so different than designing commercial aircraft.  I just finished watching a video that talked about the approach that Bombardier is taking in designing the new C Series aircraft.  I was struck by the similarities to agile approaches to software design.  In the video, Bombardier describes how they are using an Iron Bird to work through a number of design questions in advance of ever having a version of the aircraft that can ever be flown.  The Iron Bird is a life size replica of the plane.  Based on the name, I would assume the plane is built in a very heavy material that could never fly.  Using this replica, Bombardier is able to valid certain assumptions such as the length of each wire in the electric system.  They are also able to confirm that some parts are working properly (like the rudders).  They even go as far as to have a complete replica of the cockpit.  This allows Bombardier to put pilots in the cockpit to run through simulated take-off and landing sequences. The basic tenant of the approach seems to be Validate your design early with working prototypes Get feedback from users early, well in advance of finishing the end product   In software development, we tend to think of ourselves as special.  I often tell people that it is difficult to draw comparisons to building items in the physical world (“Building software is nothing like building a sky scraper”).  After watching this video, I am wondering if designing/building software is actually a lot like designing/building commercial aircraft.   Watch the video here (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/video/video-selling-the-c-series/article4400616/)

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• Noise Canceling Earphones

  - by Mark Treadwell

  I travel a lot. The hours spent droning through the sky can be made more tolerable with an MP3 player and a set of noise-cancelling headphones. Reducing the sound of the airflow and engines is a great relief. For a year or two, I used a pair of folding Sony MDR-NC5 Noise Canceling Headphones, the ear foam covers self-destructed. I replaced them with old washcloth material and was happy, but the DW thought it looked bad.  I switched to a new set of Sony MDR-NC6 Noise Canceling Headphones.  These worked equally well, although they did not fold as small as the MDR-NC5 headphones. Over four years of use, the MDR-NC6 headphones started cutting out and making popping noises.  This was not surprising considering the beating they took on travel in my backpack.  It looked like I needed another new set. The older MDR-NC5 headphones were still on the shelf with the hated washcloth covers.  A quick search online showed a vibrant business in selling replacement ear foams, often at exorbitant prices.  Nowhere did I see ear foam covers made for the oblong MDR-NC5.  I then realized that foam is stretchable and that the shape should not matter.  After another search and some consideration, I purchased 2-5/16" foam pad ear covers that were able to stretch over the MDR-NC5's strange shape.  Problem solved for less than $5.

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• Looking for good Regex book

  - by Cyberherbalist

  I've been trying to get a good grounding with Regular Expressions, and am looking for a single book to do so. I've been going through Amazon.com's listings on this subject, and I've identified a few possibilities, but am unsure which would be best for a C# developer who can write very simple Regexs, but wants to learn more. On a scale of 0-9 where 0 is knowing how to spell "Regex" but nothing else, and 9 where I could write a book on the subject out of my own head, I would place myself at 2. Which of the following would be your choice: Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E F Friedl Regular Expressions Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta Beginning Regular Expressions (Programmer to Programmer) by Andrew Watt Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers: A Problem-Solution Approach by Nathan A. Good Regular Expression Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Nathan A. Good Now, according to Amazon, "Regular Expressions Cookbook" (REC) above is rated the highest according to user ratings, but only based on 20 reviews. The first one, "Mastering Regular Expressions" (MRE) is rated second based on 140 reviews. This alone suggests that MRE might be by far the best one. But is it best for a relative beginner? Would I perhaps be better getting "Beginning Regular Expressions" (BRE) instead, to start with? Please help me resolve my confusion!

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• ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available

  - by ScottGu

  Earlier this month the ASP.NET MVC developer community held the 2nd annual mvcConf event.  This was a free, online conference focused on ASP.NET MVC – with more than 27 talks that covered a wide variety of ASP.NET MVC topics.  Almost all of the talks were presented by developers within the community, and the quality and topic diversity of the talks was fantastic. Below are links to free recordings of the talks that you can watch (and optionally download): Scott Guthrie Keynote The NuGet-y Goodness of Delivering Packages (Phil Haack) Industrial Strenght NuGet (Andy Wahrenberger) Intro to MVC 3 (John Petersen) Advanced MVC 3 (Brad Wilson) Evolving Practices in Using jQuery and Ajax in ASP.NET MVC Applications (Eric Sowell) Web Matrix (Rob Conery) Improving ASP.NET MVC Application Performance (Steven Smith) Intro to Building Twilio Apps with ASP.NET MVC (John Sheehan) The Big Comparison of ASP.NET MVC View Engines (Shay Friedman) Writing BDD-style Tests for ASP.NET MVC using MSTestContrib (Mitch Denny) BDD in ASP.NET MVC using SpecFlow, WatiN and WatiN Test Helpers (Brandon Satrom) Going Postal - Generating email with View Engines (Andrew Davey) Take some REST with WCF (Glenn Block) MVC Q&A (Jeffrey Palermo) Deploy ASP.NET MVC with No Effort (Troels Thomsen) IIS Express (Vaidy Gopalakrishnan) Putting the V in MVC (Chris Bannon) CQRS and Event Sourcing with MVC 3 (Ashic Mahtab) MVC 3 Extensibility (Roberto Hernandez) MvcScaffolding (Steve Sanderson) Real World Application Development with Mvc3 NHibernate, FluentNHibernate and Castle Windsor (Chris Canal) Building composite web applications with Open frameworks (Sebastien Lambla) Quality Driven Web Acceptance Testing (Amir Barylko) ModelBinding derived types using the DerivedTypeModelBinder in MvcContrib (Steve Hebert) Entity Framework "Code First": Domain Driven CRUD (Chris Zavaleta) Wrap Up with Jon Galloway & Javier Lozano I’d like to say a huge thank you to all of the speakers who presented, and to Javier Lozano, Eric Hexter and Jon Galloway for all their hard work in organizing the event and making it happen. Hope this helps, Scott P.S. I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu

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• Winnipeg Code Camp&ndash;Session Announcement

  - by D'Arcy Lussier

  I’ve been updating the Winnipeg Code Camp website over the last few weeks with sessions and speakers as we’ve added them, and I’m happy to announce the full set of sessions!* We have a very interesting mix this year with new speakers and varied technologies! Remember this is a *FREE* event, so head over to our website to find out how to register for what will be a fantastic code camp! *OK, so we still have one session that needs to be have an official title, and one session that’s still TBA…but close enough. ;) What`s New in Entity Framework 4 Aaron Kowall Easy Automation Setup for Everyday Projects Amir Barylko Hackerspaces Everywhere! Winnipeg: Our Time is Now Andrew Orr C# Ninjitsu Chris Eargle Code like a Ninja:Enhance Your Productivity with VS.NET & JustCode Chris Eargle Scala Language Tour Craig Tataryn WP7 - Creating a Data Driven App D`Arcy Lussier TBA (WordPress Related) Dan Bernardic WP7 Development Foundation D'Arcy Lussier HTML5 for .NET Pros Dave Wesst Turbocharge Your Manual Testing Process with VS 2010 Dylan Smith Develop Visual Studio 2010 Extensions - Twitter Studio George Chen Functionality Driven Development with Asp .Net MVC George Chen & Sean Bennett Web Development for Mobile Devices Kelly Cassidy Intro to Nmap Security Scanner Mak Kolybabi My Personal Top 10 SQL Habits Good and Bad Mike Diehl Stupid Mistakes Made By Smart People Ron Bowes Intro to jQuery Stefan Penner Taking Your WP7 Application to the Next Level with Tombstoning Tyler Doerksen Coming Soon! Tyler Doerksen

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• You Might Be a SharePoint Professional If&hellip;

  - by Mark Rackley

  I really think no explanation is needed. Hope this makes you smile.. Thanks again for being an awesome SharePoint community! If you can only dream about working an 8 hour day, there’s a good chance you are a SharePoint professional. You might be a SharePoint professional if the last time you heard “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” you wondered “How many web front ends does it have?” If you consider Twitter the best form of support since the dawn of the Internet, you might be a SharePoint professional. If you are giddy-as-a-school-girl excited about going to Anaheim in October and it has NOTHING to do with Disneyland, you might be a SharePoint professional. You might be a SharePoint professional if you own more SharePoint shirts than you do pairs of underwear. If you’ve thought of giving up a career in the IT world for a job taking orders at a fast food chain, you might be a SharePoint professional. You might be a SharePoint professional if the only people who understand the words that come out of your mouth are other SharePoint people. If you put the word “Share” or “SP” in front of EVERYTHING (ShareFood, SPRunner, etc… etc…) then you might be a SharePoint professional. You are probably a SharePoint professional if you love SharePoint.. you hate SharePoint… you love SharePoint… you hate SharePoint… If the only thing you’d rather do more than SharePoint is SharePint, then you are definitely a SharePoint professional. You might be a SharePoint professional if your idea of name dropping is “Andrew Connell says…” or “According to Todd Klindt”… or even “Well, when I was stuck in a Turkish prison with Joel Oleson…”

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• Code Bubbles: Disruption comes to the IDE

  - by andrewbrust

  If you’re like me, you might see the open source Eclipse IDE as a copy or, more generously, a port of the Microsoft’s Visual Studio for the non-.NET world.  It’s not that Microsoft invented the IDE (I would credit Borland with that), but they really took the idea and ran with it for the first version of Visual Studio .NET in 2002.  The question is whether someone outside of Microsoft could take the modern IDE yet another major step forward in both principle and productivity. I think that has actually happened already, and I think the innovator in question is a second-year Computer Science PhD student at Brown, named Andrew Bragdon.  His project, which he calls Code Bubbles, is an IDE that allows for editing, debugging and exploration of code in “bubbles” which remind me a little bit of the discrete note tiles on OneNote…but they’re much more than that.  Bubbles actually allow for call stack traversal, saved debug sessions, sophisticated breakpoint and value watch behaviors and more.  And because bubbles, unlike windows, are borderless, and focus on code fragments rather than whole files, the de-cluttering effect is unbelievably liberating.  The best way to understand what Code Bubbles does is to watch the screencast video:     Code Bubbles is an IDE for Java development.  Why didn’t Microsoft come up with something like this for .NET devs?  Between the existing features in Visual Studio 2010, its WPF code editor, and the fact that OneNote’s UI bears some affinity to Code Bubbles’, it’s interesting that Microsoft still has not thought outside of its own “box” to get us something like this. Heck, that’s easy for me to say.  But it’s easy for you to say that you’d like something like this in Visual Studio sometime soon.  That’s because the ASP.NET site within UserVoice is taking votes on this very issue.  Just click this link and vote! Thanks to my fellow Microsoft Regional Director Sondre Bjellås for making me aware of Code Bubbles, and to RD Steve Smith for creating the UserVoice voting option.

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• ArchBeat Top 20 for March 11-17, 2012

  - by Bob Rhubart

  The 20 most-clicked links as shared via my social networks for the week of March 11-17, 2012. Start Small, Grow Fast: SOA Best Practices article by @biemond, @rluttikhuizen, @demed Packt Publishing offers discounts of up to 30% on 60+ Oracle titles IT Strategies from Oracle; Three Recipes for Oracle Service Bus 11g ; Stir Up Some SOA Oracle Cloud Conference: dates and locations worldwide Applications Architecture | Roy Hunter and Brian Rasmussen How Strategic is IT? - Assessing Strategic Value | Al Kiessel White Paper: An Architect’s Guide to Big Data | Dr. Helen Sun, Peter Heller Getting Started with Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 | Lenz Grimmer Great Solaris 10 features paving the way to Solaris 11 | Karoly Vegh Who the Linux Developer Met on His Way to St. Ives | Rick Ramsey Peripheral Responsibilities Required for Large IDM Build Outs (Including Fusion Apps) | Brian Eidelman IOUG Real World Performance Tour, w/Tom Kyte, Andrew Holdsworth, Graham Wood Configure IPoIB on Solaris 10 branded zone | Leo Yuen Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Call for Papers Use Case Assumptions versus Pre-Conditions | Dave Burke Handling Custom XML documents in Oracle B2B | @Biemond Building a Coherence Cluster with Multiple Application Servers | Rene van Wijk XMLA vs BAPI | Sunil S. Ranka The Java EE 6 Example - Running Galleria on WebLogic 12 - Part 3 | @MyFear Public Sector Architecture | @jeremy_forman, @hamzajahangir Thought for the Day "The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it." —Anonymous

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• SharePoint Q&A With the MVP Gang

  - by Bil Simser

  Interested in getting some first hand knowledge about SharePoint and all of it’s quirks, oddities, and secrets? We’re hosting not one, but *two* SharePoint Q&A sessions with the MVP crowd. Here’s the official blurb: Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals? The SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, speakers, user group leaders and answerers in the MSDN forums. By popular demand, we have brought these experts together as a collective group to answer your questions live. So please join us and bring on the questions! This chat will cover WSS, MOSS and the SharePoint 2010. Topics include setup and administration, design, development and general questions. Here’s a rundown of the expected guests for the chats: Agnes Molnar, Andrew Connell, Asif Rehmani, Becky Bertram, Me, Bryan Phillips, Chris O'Brien, Clayton Cobb, Dan Attis, Darrin Bishop, David Mann, Gary Lapointe, John Ross, Mike Oryzak, Muhanad Omar, Paul Stork, Randy Drisgill, Rob Bogue, Rob Foster, Shane Young, Spence Harbar. Apologies for not linking to everyone’s blogs, I’m just not that ambitious tonight. Please note that not everyone listed here is guaranteed to make it to either chat and there may be additions/changes at the last minute so the names may change to protect the innocent. The chat sessions will be held April 27th, 2010 at 4PM (PST) and April 28th at 9AM (PST). You can find out more details about the chats here or click here to add the April 27th event to your calendar, or click here to add the April 28th event (assuming your calendar software supports ICS files). See you there!

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• How to implement curved movement while tracking the appropriate angle?

  - by Vexille

  I'm currently coding a 2D top-down car game which will be turn-based. And since it's turn-based, the cars won't be controlled directly (i.e. with a simple velocity vector that adjusts its angle when the player wants to turn), but instead it's movement path has to be planned beforehand, and then the car needs to follow the path when the turn ends (think Steambirds). This question has some interesting information, but its focus is on homing-missile behaviour, which I kinda had figured out, but doesn't really apply to my case, I think, since I need to show a preview of the path when the player is planning his turn, then have the car follow that path. In that same question, there's an excellent answer by Andrew Russel which mentions Equations of Motion and Bézier's Curve. Some of his other suggestions of implementation are specific to XNA though, so they don't help much (I'm using Marmalade SDK). If I assume Bézier's Curve as the solution of choice, I'm left with one specific problem: I'll have the car's position (the first endpoint) and the target/final position (the last endpoint), but what should I use as the control point (assuming a square/quadratic curve)? And whether I use Bézier's Curve or another parametric equation, I'd still be left with another issue: the car can't just follow the curve, it must turn (i.e. adjust its angle) accordingly. So how can I figure out which way the car should be pointing to at any given point in the curve?

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• MySQL Connect Content Catalog Live

  - by Bertrand Matthelié

  The MySQL Connect Content Catalog is now live and you can check out the great program the content committee put together for you. We received a lot of very good submissions during the call for papers and we’d like to thank you all again for those, it was a very difficult job to choose. Overall MySQL Connect will in two days include: Keynotes, with speakers such as Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven and Vice President of MySQL Engineering Tomas Ulin 66 conference sessions, enabling you to hear from: Oracle engineers on MySQL 5.6 new features, InnoDB, performance and scalability, security, NoSQL, MySQL Cluster…and more MySQL users and customers including Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, Yahoo, Ticketmaster, and CERN Internationally recognized MySQL community members and partners on topics such as performance, security or high availability 6 Birds-of-a-feather sessions, in which you’ll be able to engage into passionate discussions about replication, backup and other subjects, and help influence the MySQL roadmap 8 Hands-On Labs designed to give you hands-on experience about MySQL replication, MySQL Cluster, the MySQL Performance Schema…and more Demo pods about MySQL Workbench, MySQL Cluster, MySQL Enterprise Edition and other technologies and services We’ll also have networking receptions on both Saturday and Sunday evening, enabling you to discuss with the Oracle engineers developing and supporting the MySQL products, as well as with other users and customers. Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to meet and learn from our partners in the exhibition hall. Some of the MySQL Connect speakers such as Henrik Ingo and Andrew Morgan have already blogged about their presence at MySQL Connect, and you can find more information about their sessions or their thoughts about the conference in their blogs. We also published an interview with Tomas Ulin a few weeks ago. In summary, don’t miss MySQL Connect! And you only have about 3 weeks left to register with the early bird discount and save US$500. Don’t wait, Register Now! Interested in sponsorship and exhibit opportunities? You will find more information here.

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• SharePoint 2010 BDC Model Deployment Issue: “The default web application could not be determined.”

  - by Jan Tielens

  Yesterday I tried to deploy a Business Data Connectivity Model project created in Visual Studio 2010 to my SharePoint 2010 test server (all RTM versions), but during the deployment of the solution, SharePoint threw my following error: Add Solution:  Adding solution 'BCSDemo2.wsp'...  Deploying solution 'BCSDemo2.wsp'...Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': The default web application could not be determined. Set the SiteUrl property in feature BCSDemo2_Feature1 to the URL of the desired site and retry activation.Parameter name: properties A little bit of searching on the internet taught me that I was not the only one having this issue, actually Paul Andrew describes how to solve it in this post. Although Paul describes what to do, his explanation is not, let’s say, very elaborate. :-) So let’s describe the steps a little bit more in detail: Create a new Business Data Connectivity Model project in Visual Studio 2010 and (optionally) implement all your code, change the model etc. When you try to deploy you get the error mentioned above. To fix it, in the Solution Explorer, navigate to and open the Feature1.Template.xml file (the name could be different if you decided to give your feature a different name of course). Add the following XML in the Feature element that’s already there (replace the Value with the URL of your site of course):  <Properties>    <Property Key='SiteUrl' Value='http://spf.u2ucourse.com'/>  </Properties>The resulting XML should look like:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><Feature xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">  <Properties>    <Property Key='SiteUrl' Value='http://spf.u2ucourse.com'/>  </Properties></Feature> Deploy the solution, now without any issues. :-) What happens now, is that when Visual Studio creates the SharePoint Solution (the WSP file), it will use the Feature template XML to generate the Feature manifest, which will now include the missing property.

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• Compelling Keynotes Coming: Oracle OpenWorld Latin America

  - by Oracle OpenWorld Blog Team

  Make your plans now for 4-6 December in São Paulo! Again this year there are informative and inspiring keynotes lined up for Oracle OpenWorld Latin America. For the opening keynote on 4 December, Oracle President Mark Hurd and Chief Technology Officer Edward Screven will talk about the many elements that are defining the convergence of business and information technology. The next day's keynote will focus on cloud computing, diving deeply into how mobile and social technologies play into this critical way of delivering services. Featured speakers are Oracle executives Thomas Kurian, Andrew Mendelsohn, and Robert Shimp. On Thursday, 6 December, Anthony Lye, Oracle senior vice president, will discuss the customer experience revolution and how the analysis of customer behavior can help shape companies' ability to understand and adapt more effectively to their customers' needs and wants. And, of course, Oracle partners always have interesting and exciting things to say. Be sure to come hear about innovations from Odebrecht, CTIS Tecnologia, and Intel do Brasil executives on topics including technology adoption that drives business results; the "Model School" revolution; and the role of the data center as technology advances. You can still enjoy Early Bird savings through 3 December, so register now!

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• SharePoint MVP Chat &ndash; tomorrow and day after

  - by Sahil Malik

  Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). Yes we’re doing it again! After two very successful chats, a number of MVPs will be online in chat style answering your SharePoint questions. Here’s the schedule Tuesday May 25th at 4PM PDT (join here) Agnes Molnar Bill English Brian Farnhill Bryan Phillips Clayton Cobb David Mann <—ask him to tell a joke, he has a great sense of humor! Also bug him about Workflows. Matt McDermott Paul Stork Rob Bogue <—Ask him about WFs too. Rob Foster <— Him and Nick Swan run a SharePoint podcast. Sahil Malik <—I know him Saifullah Shafiq Ahmed   Wednesday at 9AM PDT (join here) Andrew Connell <— youngest MVP ever! LOL. Becky Bertram Bil Simser Chadima Kulathilake Claudio Brotto Gary Lapointe <—the stsadm extensions guy, ask him about powershell Darrin Bishop John Ross Michael Mukalian Muhanad Omar Randy Drisgill <—he created SP2010 starter master pages. Ask him about branding Shane Young Todd Bleeker Zlatan Dzinic Comment on the article ....

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• OpenWorld 2012—Is Almost Here!

  - by Scott McNeil

  With OpenWorld fast approaching, I thought I would take this opportunity to look at some of the “must see” database manageability activities and sessions happening this year. Here's a quick run down: Oracle Database Manageability: Download all the details for sessions, hands-on-labs, and demos (PDF) Keynotes: Sunday, September 30 Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together: Why It’s A Different Approach Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle Monday, October 1 Shift Complexity Hosted by Mark Hurd, President, Oracle Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President, Database Server Technologies, Oracle IOUG SIG Sunday: Database Performance Tuning: Getting the Best out of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c (session ID# CON6511) Oracle DEMOgrounds: Floor plan – Moscone South Automatic Application and SQL Tuning Automatic Performance Diagnostics Complete Database Lifecycle Management Data Masking and Data Subsetting Database Testing with Oracle Real Application Testing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Overview Oracle Exadata Management Hands-on-Labs: Database Performance Testing, Data Masking, and Subsetting (session ID# HOL10720) Database Performance Tuning Hands-on Lab (session ID# HOL10393) Sessions: What’s Next for Oracle Database? (session ID# GEN8259) Building and Managing a Private Oracle Database Cloud (session ID# GEN11421) Using Oracle Enterprise Manager to Manage Your Own Private Cloud (session ID# GEN11423) Extreme Database Management with the Latest Generation of Database Technology (session ID# CON9547) Oracle OpenWorld Music Festival New this year is Oracle’s first annual Oracle OpenWorld Musical Festival, featuring some of today's breakthrough musicians from around the country and the world. It's five nights of back-to-back performances in the heart of San Francisco—free to registered attendees. See the lineup Not Heading to OpenWorld—Watch it Live! Stay Connected: Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Linkedin | Newsletter Download the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control12c Mobile app

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• Where should I go to learn about networking? [closed]

  - by Ollie Saunders

  I wonder if anyone could recommend resource or resources such as a good book that: explains how all the important protocols work and interact. I’m interested in those that are relevant in a typical home network and used over the Internet explains in detail how ADSL Internet connections work to the level of depth necessary so that I’m able to tweak and measure performance settings starts from the beginning but attempts to provide proper understanding rather than idiot-oriented steps to follow Basically, I’m interested in how these technologies work and tend to be implemented in hardware and software rather than “here’s what to do if…” I’m interested in Computer Networking by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and I wonder if anyone else has any experience with that title. It’s expensive but I could probably loan a copy for £3 from the library or so.

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• Conflict between variable substitution and CJK characters in BASH

  - by AndreasT

  I encountered a problem with variable substitution in the BASH shell. Say you define a variable a. Then the command $> echo ${a//[0-4]/} prints its value with all the numbers ranged between 0 and 4 removed: $> a="Hello1265-3World" $> echo ${a//[0-4]/} Hello65-World This seems to work just fine, but let's take a look at the next example: $> b="?1265-3?" $> echo ${b//[0-4]/} ?1265-3? Substitution did not take place: I assume that is because b contains CJK characters. This issue extends to all cases in which square brackets are involved. Surprisingly enough, variable substitution without square brackets works fine in both cases: $> a="Hello1265-3World" $> echo ${a//2/} Hello165-3World $> b="?1265-3?" $> echo ${b//2/} ?165-3? Is it a bug or am I missing something? I use Lubuntu 12.04, terminal is lxterminal and echo $BASH_VERSION returns 4.2.24(1)-release. EDIT: Andrew Johnson in his comment stated that with gnome-terminal 4.2.37(1)-release the command works fine. I wonder whether it is a problem of lxterminal or of its specific 4.2.24(1)-release version.

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• Oracle buys Secerno

  - by Paulo Folgado

  Adds Heterogeneous Database Firewall to Oracle's Industry-leading Database Security SolutionsRedwood Shores, CA - May 20, 2010News FactsOracle has agreed to acquire Secerno, a provider of database firewall solutions for Oracle and non-Oracle databases.Organizations require a comprehensive security solution which includes database firewall functionality to prevent sophisticated attacks from reaching databases.Secerno's solution adds a critical defensive layer of security around databases, which blocks unauthorized activity in real-time.Secerno's products are expected to augment Oracle's industry-leading portfolio of database security solutions, including Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Database Vault and Oracle Audit Vault to further ensure data privacy, protect against threats, and enable regulatory compliance.The combination of Oracle and Secerno underscores Oracle's commitment to provide customers with the most comprehensive and advanced security offering that helps reduce the costs and complexity of securing their information throughout the enterprise.The transaction is expected to close before end of June 2010. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.Supporting Quote:"The Secerno acquisition is in direct response to increasing customer challenges around mitigating database security risk," said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle Database Server Technologies. "Secerno's database firewall product acts as a first line of defense against external threats and unauthorized internal access with a protective perimeter around Oracle and non-Oracle databases. Together, Oracle's complete set of database security solutions and Secerno's technology will provide customers with the ability to safeguard their critical business information.""As a provider of database firewall solutions that help customers safeguard their enterprise databases, Secerno is a natural addition to Oracle's industry-leading database security solutions," said Steve Hurn, CEO Secerno. "Secerno has been providing enterprises and their IT Security departments strong assurance that their databases are protected from attacks and breaches. We are excited to bring Secerno's domain expertise to Oracle, and ensure continuity and success for our current customers, partners and prospects."Support Resources:About Oracle and SecernoGeneral PresentationFAQCustomer LetterPartner Letter

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