ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and […]

Have you ever wondered what the English language looks? Yeah, neither have I. But a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University did, and tapping into the billions of images freely available on the Internet, they came up with a visual map of the English language using nearly 80 […]

It’s a known fact that no two links are equally the same, in this research I attempted to see every two links as equals. While this obviously makes it impossible to create a 100% accurate piece of content, this - together with the dozens of interesting comments- results in a document that might be […]

AJAX Cross Domain
AJAX Cross Domain is a library that allows to perform cross-domain AJAX requests.
Virtually all modern server-side scripting languages support remote requests in one or another form. In client-side javascript, this functionality is not present due to the Same Origin Policy. Though this policy is necessary for a robust security model, programmers are often […]

50 Things You’re Not Supposed To Know

htmlSQL - a PHP class to query the web by an SQL like language.
htmlSQL is a experimental PHP class which allows you to access HTML values by an SQL like syntax. This means that you don’t have to write complex functions (regular expressions) to extract specific values. The htmlSQL queries look like this:

This query […]

I started with this question as it has been something that’s very interesting to me. About a year and a half ago I joined the service Last.fm, which serves many functions but most specifically logs all music that you listen to in real time. This creates a great amount of interesting statistics. Including top artist […]

Weblin is what makes people visible on the internet. With weblin people who are on the same webpage can see and communicate with each other.
Weblin’s webpage
with weblin you’ll meet others who are browsing the same page at the same time.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio. New interactive elements include details, datagrid, and command.
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What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people
who say they are giving more than 100%? How about achieving 103%?
Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these
questions:
If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U […]

Developer Notes for prototype.js

prototype version 1.5.0

Stewart Smith Stewart Smith works for MySQL AB as a software engineer working on MySQL Cluster. He is … all » an active member of the free and open source software community, especially in Australia.
ABSTRACT Part 1 - Introduction to MySQL Cluster The NDB storage engine (MySQL Cluster) is a high-availability storage engine for MySQL. […]

To IT Support Team
Dear IT Support Team:
Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 5.0 to Wife 1.0.
I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child-processes
that took up a lot of space and valuable resources.
In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other program and now
monitors all other system activities. Applications such as
bachelornights 10.3, Cricket 5.0, […]

David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of one of the hottest technologies amongst software developers these days: the Ruby on Rails Web framework. Hailing from Denmark, Hansson is a partner at 37signals, a Chicago firm that develops tools for communications and collaboration. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Hansson during the RailsConf 2007 […]

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

Fix : Error 1205 : Transaction (Process ID) was deadlocked on resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.
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Microsoft® Silverlight™ is now available for download. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and […]

Sometimes content just writes itself. Here are some snippets from a chat I just had with the 14 year old co-founder of teen social network TeenWag.

Google Inc. and MySQL AB are close to finalizing a deal that could find the open-source database vendor incorporating powerful features created by the search giant into future versions of the popular database.
On Monday, Google publicly released the source code for several custom features it had built in-house to enhance the performance and reliability of its search […]

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