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By adfm : Yesterday, 04:35 PM

Do you have a web service that you'd like to set up authentication on? OAuth is a popular tool to accomplish this task. In this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Cookbook you'll l...

By kbnotes : Yesterday, 09:37 AM

Some project managers want or need more scheduling control over their project. That is, they want to be able to manually enter duration, start dates, and finish dates, without causing those entries to...

By adfm : Yesterday, 08:37 AM

Are you looking for a new home in a recovering economy? This excerpt from Nancy Conner's Buying a Home: The Missing Manual lists ten tips for buying a home in a buyers market. In a buyer’s market...

By adfm : 19 April 2010 - 04:04 PM

Dramatically speed up Javascript execution by simply avoiding excessive use of eval() and similar functions. This excerpt from Nicholas C. Zakas' High Performance Javascript will...

By adfm : 19 April 2010 - 02:24 PM

Drupal is one of the more well-known open source Content Management Systems out there. Chances are, if you're looking to accomplish some specific content management task, there's probably a Drupal m...

By davidkarp : 24 September 2009 - 10:25 AM

I'm trying to delete a folder, but Windows says it's being used by "another person." Are we talking gremlins here, or has someone broken into my PC to read my manifesto on platypus cloning?All this me...

By LaurelRuma : 01 October 2009 - 03:15 PM

The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) is aptly named. It's blue, it fills the screen, and it means death for whatever you were working on before it appeared. Microsoft refers to BSoD errors as "Sto...

By bjepson : 01 October 2009 - 07:07 PM

Some of us still feel the need to talk to devices over a serial (including USB-to-serial and Bluetooth). There are many interesting devices that prefer to talk to your computer using the old-fashioned...

By macslocum : 19 April 2010 - 05:38 AM

Dropbox, an online storage and synchronization tool, has a clever marketing hook. The free version quietly entangles with your workflow until you reach the 2GB cap, and by that point it's almost too e...

By kbnotes : 11 April 2010 - 04:05 AM

The following excerpt is from the forthcoming Inside Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 by Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell, and Scot Hillier: The server-side object model for SharePoint has long been soph...

By kbnotes : 18 April 2010 - 06:51 AM

Creating charts in Excel 2010 workbooks enables you to summarize your data visually, using legends, labels, and colors to highlight aspects of your data. It is possible to create very small charts to ...

By bmclaugh : 14 April 2010 - 09:52 AM

If you're going to develop web applications that function on an iPhone or iPad, you should get your environment setup for efficiency. In this screencast, Jonathan Stark walks through how he sets his c...