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Bonnie Biafore

In the Blogs

Wingman: In-Browser Validation

Rowan Simpson and Koz have released Wingman, a Firefox plug-in that automatically sends the pages you visit to an HTML validation server. This lets you validate dynamically-generated pages locked away behind complex logins. You can tell it ignore certain types of errors, and the website aggregates information about what types of errors are commonly ignored. I know Rowan and Koz...

No EULA for Mozilla Firefox

Mitchell Baker of Mozilla reports that they have revised their decision to include a EULA-like notification in the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution. The debate over Mozilla's decision reveals two important debates in the free software world.

Bad Finance 101 - A Programmer's Guide

O'Reilly's focus has long been on programming issues (or programmer issues) and that focus remains very much in place. However, it is worth understanding how the grief playing out on Wall Street will have a very significant impact upon the IT industry within the next four to six months, even despite the fact that up until now the contagion seems largely to have remained contained in the financial sector.

Featured Book Review

Book: slide:ology
Reviewed by: joshSVUG

Rating:

Wow, what a bo:ok
If you are a public speaker or have to give presentations as part of your job, you must read this book. From the acknowledgments to the manifesto, you will be delighted by the contents and presentation. This is a beautiful book to hold and read. Hats off to Nancy Duarte (and her team). Pay attention to Guy Kawasaki's advice: "now you have no excuse for your Long, Boring and USELESS Presentation".

Have you read slide:ology ? What did you think?

In the Forums

Caching Datacontext?  I've started using Linqpad recently, and like it as an alternative to both SQL Management Studio and Visual Studio in several situations. It seems to take a long time (relatively speaking, 2-3 minutes) to connect to a database and display tables though. I assume this is because it's building a dummy  [O'Reilly Forums]

Best Recorder For Indoor Concerts?  What would be the best recorder to record a series of day length indoor concerts that span a duration of 2 weeks? The concerts will be held in a large auditorium holding approximately 2000 people...  [O'Reilly Forums]

A Whack On The Side Of The Head, How do you stimulate your creativity?  A famous cartoonist said he beat "cartoonist's block" by sitting at his drawing board with one foot in a bucket of hot water and the other in a bucket of cold water. Not coincidentally, perhaps, many people say they get their best ideas in the shower. How about you?  [O'Reilly Forums]

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