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By adfm : Today, 03:32 PM

You should probably back up your work before you start reading this. This excerpt from David A. Karp's Windows 7 Annoyances will clue you in to four easy ways to make quick, on-the-fly backups. B...

By adfm : Today, 02:03 PM

If you'd like to sell your iPhone app in non-english speaking countries, you're going to want to localize you app to target specific languages. This excerpt from Craig Hockenberry's iPhone App Devel...

By Alexander Howard : Today, 12:48 PM

"When I think of a government website, I think of it as a home base," said Cammie Croft, former deputy new media director at the White House and current new media director at the Department ...

By odewahn1 : Today, 12:01 PM

Google has a nice little RESTful API that powers the auto-suggest function: https://blogoscoped.c...-08-17-n22.html The API returns the top 10 suggestions for the given query, plus the number of time...

By adfm : Today, 10:30 AM

Did you know that Windows PowerShell can help you manage your event log? This excerpt from Tulloch, Northrup, et al.'s Windows® 7 Resource Kit will show you how. New in Windows 7 is the capab...

By adfm : Today, 10:14 AM

Managing multiple ESX Servers is easy with the VMware. This excerpt from Troy & Helmke's VMware Cookbook will guide you through the process of creating a cluster with the vCenter client. If you ...

By adfm : Today, 08:52 AM

If you're a Windows developer curious about Windows Azure, you'll want to check out this excerpt from Sriram Krishnan's Programming Windows Azure. It gets you up to speed with what it takes to set u...

By odewahn1 : Today, 08:18 AM

A matrix is a 2 dimensional array of numbers called elements. Matrices are used in many different applications, representing sets of equations, transformations to 3D objects, or color filters, to nam...

By adfm : 18 May 2010 - 12:50 PM

Is bash not working the way you want it to? Change the way it behaves with this handy list of options from Arnold Robbins' bash Pocket Reference. Bash provides a number of shell options, settings...

By BrianSawyer : 18 May 2010 - 10:33 AM

This weekend, I'll be part of a Ragnar Relay team, running from New Haven to Boston (with a generous margin of error for location on either end). I know I'll be missed while I'm away and that everyone...

By adfm : 18 May 2010 - 10:23 AM

So you've developed your first iPhone app and it's doing well in the App Store. It's time for an update. What do you do? This excerpt from Craig Hockenberry's iPhone App Development: The Missing Manua...

By macslocum : 18 May 2010 - 04:56 AM

Google Wave was met with considerable fanfare when it launched in a limited preview last fall. It was poised to revolutionize email, save journalism, and alter the fabric of online communication -- or...

By adfm : 17 May 2010 - 04:05 PM

Do you want to change the "Submitted by..." line on your Drupal site? This excerpt from Byron, Berry, et al.'s Using Drupal will show you how by overriding Drupal's template.php. Overriding a Tem...

By adfm : 17 May 2010 - 03:40 PM

There are a number of shortcuts for windows in Windows 7. This excerpt from Bott, Siechert, & Stinson's Windows 7 Inside Out will show you the ins and outs of manipulating windows in Windows 7. Win...

By adfm : 17 May 2010 - 02:40 PM

Folks just starting out with Ubuntu are likely to get to a point where they'll want to setup users and groups. Fortunately Ubuntu provides easy-to-use GUI tools to manage users and groups. This exce...