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Just want Bill to stop the sterotyping that "Softball and Lesibian" are one in the same, in his context with Supreme Court Nominee Kagan he thinks her ties to Softball makes her a lesibian, ...

By Chuck Bell : Yesterday, 04:54 PM

MySQL replication is a very stable feature but like any computing solution things can go wrong. Sometimes the problems are not manifested with descriptive error messages (are they ever?) and sometimes...

By kbnotes : Yesterday, 07:47 AM

Errin O'Connor, author of the forthcoming Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010 Inside Out, and founder and CEO of EPC Group, a Houston-based SharePoint integrator, offers his views about enabl...

By BonnieB : 28 May 2010 - 03:28 PM

Balancing return and risk is essential, because greed and fear can mess up the best financial plans. By matching your portfolio risk to your personal risk tolerance, you can sleep soundly while your i...

By adfm : 28 May 2010 - 02:20 PM

So much of social interaction happens online these days. Sometimes it's good to meet with people face-to-face. Facebook has great tools for gathering people together for events. This excerpt from E....

By adfm : 28 May 2010 - 01:58 PM

If you need to change the virtual disk SCSI driver on your VMware virtual machine after a physical-to-virtual conversion, you'll want to use vCenter. This excerpt from Troy & Helmke's VMware Cookboo...

By andyo : 25 May 2010 - 11:00 AM

Like other URL shorteners, bit.ly lets you create accounts and store your shortened URLs in it. You can maintain multiple accounts so that URLs for particular purposes are stored in a specialized acco...

By kbnotes : 28 May 2010 - 07:19 AM

Errin O'Connor, author of the forthcoming Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Microsoft Press) and founder and CEO of EPC Group, a Houston-based SharePoint integrator, recently co...

By bjepson : 27 May 2010 - 03:31 PM

In the index of Best Android Apps, we included QR Codes for all the apps listed. Open up Barcode Scanner, scan the QR code, and follow the link. However, at the time of the book's writing, some of...

By adfm : 27 May 2010 - 06:32 PM

When you get past a few people generating content for your site, you're going to want to set up a publishing workflow. This excerpt from Byron, Berry, et al.'s Using Drupal will introduce you to Dru...

By adfm : 27 May 2010 - 02:29 PM

Do you have an interest in tweaking every ounce of performance out of your Windows 7 system? You'll want to start with a baseline. It's hard to tell how far along you are if you don't know where the...

By BonnieB : 27 May 2010 - 12:28 PM

Although the dividends investments pay may seem small, they are a big part of the long-term returns you receive. The key to success is reinvesting those dividends into additional shares of stocks or b...

By adfm : 27 May 2010 - 11:30 AM

Are you working on a iPhone game and would like to add a little realism with 3D reflections on-the-cheap? This excerpt from Philip Rideout's iPhone 3D Programming will show you how to achieve a poor...

By adfm : 11 May 2010 - 02:58 PM

Do you want to delete your account from Facebook, but can't quite find the right button? In this simple how-to you'll learn the easy-to-remember way of deleting your account. No obscure URLs o...

By adfm : 27 May 2010 - 10:06 AM

The little details can make or break a user experience. Some users notice a lag, while others have a hard time with basic navigation. The default system settings are meant to be a sensible starting-...

By macslocum : 27 May 2010 - 05:04 AM

You don't need to understand online video to consume it, but anyone intent on producing the stuff has to know the basics. Simon Frost, technical architect for the BBC's iPlayer and a speaker at the u...

By bjepson : 04 April 2010 - 04:44 PM

Back when the iPad was announced, my friend Morgan and I talked about a concern some people have with the iPad. Because you can't program right on the iPad, we run the risk of depriving kids of wh...

By adfm : 26 May 2010 - 04:08 PM

Are you building an iPhone app that requires notifying the user? This excerpt from Alasdair Allan's Learning iPhone Programming will introduce you to the Apple Push Notification Service. The App...

By adfm : 26 May 2010 - 03:01 PM

Isn't it annoying when a program crashes? You're working one moment and then the next thing you know the program won't respond. Your blood pressure rises and you start to get nervous. Panic starts t...