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Notable Developer Links

Posted by David Carroll

• What Is Web 2.0
  From the O'Reilly artcle: In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it
  (to programming on October 27)
• An Introduction to Programming Using Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
  This one's for my daughter and other's interested in getting started in programming. Visual Express Editions are free, great for students and beginners.
  (to programming on October 25)

• Filed under: Developer Links
• Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2006 8:51 PM | with 0 Comment(s)

Notable Miscellaneous Links

Posted by David Carroll

• Real Beauty?
  When you see a picture of a beautiful girl, is it real? With advertising and the Internet, girls have to compare themselves to the cream of the crop rather than the girls in the village.
  (to misc photography on October 23)
• How Many of Me
  Of the 300 million people in the United States, how many have your same name?
  (to misc reference on October 23)

• Filed under: Links Miscellaneous
• Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2006 8:51 PM | with 0 Comment(s)

Notable Miscellaneous Links

Posted by David Carroll

• NewsMap: Cloud Map of Current News
  Interesting, colorful, quick-view map of the news.
  (to Misc on October 23)
• Maps of War
  Middle East: the history of geopolitical control
  (to misc on October 21)
• Flickr: Wallpapers
  (to photography misc on October 21)
• Wayback Machine
  (to misc on September 14)
• Economics in Six Minutes
  (to reference misc on September 04)

• Filed under: Links Miscellaneous
• Posted: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:36 AM | with 0 Comment(s)

Notable Developer Links

Posted by David Carroll

• SitePoint : New Articles, Fresh Thinking for Web Developers and Designers
  (to programming on October 20)
• XmlSerializer .NET Tutorial
  (to xml programming on October 17)
• Denis Bauer's Reflector.FileDisassembler
  (to programming on October 17)
• visual studio tips
  (to programming on October 09)
• SQL Server Partitioned Tables
  (to database programming on September 27)
• Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
  (to programming utility on September 20)

• Filed under: Developer Links
• Posted: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:36 AM | with 0 Comment(s)

Of making many books there is no end

Posted by David Carroll

Ecclesiastes 12:12And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.I buy lots of books. The two main genres are books about software development and books with a religious theme. For novels, I usually buy from Audible so that I can enjoy them while driving or walking or just sitting in the hot tub. Anyway, I am a very good customer of Amazon. I just cannot resist the latest book on some new technology. What amazes me about books about computer programming is that I am never Read more

• Filed under: Personal
• Posted: Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:18 PM | with 1 Comment(s)

Comment Spam and Google juice

Posted by David Carroll

No big deal but I had to shut down the site for about 36 hours while I put some protection in against comment spam.Somebody evidently found the site and was using it to post a bunch of links to other sites. Nothing trashy as far as I could tell without clicking on the links but still a bunch of gibberish in the comments. The motivation probably was in hopes of getting some “Google juice.” Google’s page-rank system uses a measurement of the number of sites that link to a given site to measure that site’s importance in the Google search Read more

• Filed under: Technical
• Posted: Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:23 PM | with 1 Comment(s)