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"With the advent of free software coming of age and the dawning of Open Source applications being a moving force in developement.. it seems that it is timely for database servers to go and be free as a bird could be... and guess what... Oracle has been set FREE" Microsoft has SQL Server 2005 Express...
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Anybody who has thought about this? putting Microsoft, corporate and software logos as their tattoo.... i'm just wondering how many people who have thought about doing this.. anyway, here's a some notable people who have done this... i know that the great Charles Petzold , author of alot of programming...
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This is my tribute to the people whom I learned and helped me understand C/C++.. although i'm not that great with it unlike MisterClay (he was my college buddy) whom i consider to be a totem pole when it comes to C and C++!!! This are authors who created great books that i have read back when i was in...
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Somebody in the UK(..i think) has some sense of humor... check this out! This is via Google Maps nad you'll be amazed on how this happened... that some serious Google hacking right there.. :) http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&t=k&ll=53.538774,-1.346804&spn=0.000875,0.002626&t...
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I found this in Channel 9 and it was hilariously funny that i need to blog about it! Enjoy! Googlepark: The Spaghetti Code> http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=162360 btw: dont drink while reading that post.. you might spit your drink on your monitor like Mr. Scobleizer. :) Consider yourself...
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I have just received a message from Woody Pewitt that he would be giving away 2 more books courtesy of Microsoft. Here's the book to be given away: Writing Secure Code, Second Edition Author Michael Howard and David LeBlanc Pages 800 Disk N/A Level Intermediate Published 12/04/2002 ISBN 0-7356-1722-8...
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Finally! After 30 minutes of coding and 5 hours of modification(I wasn't satisfied on how it looks so i ended up revising it a couple of times.. :P This also includes me watching UFC at the same time:D) I have finally released the first beta of the DevPinoy Visitor Locator . DPVL is an application that...
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Nice! I guess we do have architecture guys here! anyway, here's the answer to Skills Test Part 1 1.) The code closely resembles a factory method pattern... but mixed with the singleton flavor making it really unstructured. (nice catch cruizer!) 2.) the return statements really doesn't do anything at...
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i think this is the coolest feature implemented by the GMail team.. having to chat to you GTalk inside Gmail! That's impressive! alot of AJAX i bet, but totally remarkable! Way to go guys!
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Lets see if there are some architechture people around here :) Looking at code below... scrutinize this class and tell me whats wrong with its structure... what design pattern closely resembles it.. and how you can improve it? the code is provided in both C# and VB.NET so that it would be easier for...
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Want to know which APIs are now obsolete in .NET 2.0? Here's a list by Assembly : http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/obsoleteapi/ObsByAssembly.aspx Here's a list by Namespace : http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/obsoleteapi/ObsByNamespace.aspx
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Next week we would be opening a new section here in devPinoy called "Careers". This section envisions itself to feature blogs of HR managers/ Headhunters looking for programmers and IT staff. If you know your company is looking for people to hire and wants to advertise for free.. then devPinoy is the...
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You got to love this! From the authors website: "...C5 is a library of generic collection classes for C# and other CLI languages, as found in Microsoft .Net version 2.0 and Mono version 1.2. C5 provides functionality and data structures not provided by the standard .Net System.Collections.Generic namespace...
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I stumbled on this interesting link today which talks about the pros and cons between using C/C++, Ruby, Python and Java...
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I've been using Microsoft Virtual PC for quite sometime now and it has been a great companion for me.. abit pricey but still a valuable tool that i use in my everyday 'programmers life '... but, i might let go of this tool soon... i just found out todat that VMWare has announced that their VMWare Server...