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By chco : Yesterday, 02:38 PM

Supposing you want to invoke a simple task on large amounts of data, the following excerpt from the O'Reilly Publication Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Second Edition can help. If only one piece o...

By chco : Yesterday, 04:58 AM

The following excerpt from Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Second Edition shows you how to customize the PowerShell console to make it more efficient for copying, pasting, history management, and scrolli...

By Alanle [MS} : Yesterday, 04:36 AM

In a TechNet Magazine article I wrote, called Working Together: SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Integration in SharePoint 2010 I cover how to configure SQL Reporting Services for SharePoint Inte...

By chco : 26 August 2010 - 12:42 PM

Supposing you have created a long-running job and you would like Windows PowerShell to notify you upon completion. The following excerpt from Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Second Edition can help.Use t...

By macslocum : 24 August 2010 - 03:54 AM

While installing the fantastic Keyring app on my phone the other day, I realized (yet again) how clunky the Android app process can be. There's a lot of unnecessary friction. My biggest pet peeve:...

By BrianSawyer : 26 August 2010 - 07:11 AM

Anyone who has used Apple's Mail app has likely experienced an embarrassing failure of its usually helpful autocomplete feature for email addresses. Sometimes, either old or seldom-used addresses ...

By macslocum : 26 August 2010 - 04:33 AM

I often encounter the term "pivot table," yet until recently I had only a vague notion as to what a pivot table is and what it does. Matthew MacDonald, author of "Excel 2010: The Missing Manual," got ...

By chco : 25 August 2010 - 11:37 AM

Tthe following excerpt from Google Analytics explains the ways you can track how people interact with the content on your website.There is a new paradigm taking shape in the world of web analytics. Fo...

By odewahn1 : 25 August 2010 - 07:21 AM

Data.gov is a tremendous information resource that lists thousands of data sets collected and managed by various Federal agencies. I was interested in seeing which ones were being used the most. Unf...

By chco : 25 August 2010 - 04:24 AM

Similar to tracking across multiple domains, the primary issue with tracking across multiple subdomains has to do with the cookie domain. The following excerpt from the Google Analytics shows you how ...

By chco : 24 August 2010 - 01:02 PM

The following excerpt from Google Analytics shows you how to evaluate the success of an email marketing campaign.Email, like all marketing activities, is a process. This process includes reaching out ...

By macslocum : 13 August 2010 - 04:44 AM

I know this is dangerously close to Verizon-iPhone linkbait, but a recent post by John Gruber got me thinking about a legitimate question. Here's what he wrote: QuoteI don't think there’s anyone ...

By chco : 24 August 2010 - 04:41 AM

In this excerpt from Google Analytics the author explains the use of goals and funnels and the ways it can help you adjust your site to improve the user experience and site conversions.Goals provide a...

By chco : 23 August 2010 - 08:52 PM

The following excerpt from HTML5: Up and Running shows you how to add microdata about people to your website with HTML5.The easiest way to integrate microdata into a personal website is on your “abo...

By chco : 23 August 2010 - 03:14 PM

The following excerpt from Google Analytics explains how Google Analytics collects and processes your site data. Understanding how the data is collected and processed will help you understand how bes...

By chco : 23 August 2010 - 10:50 AM

The following excerpt from Programming C# 4.0, Sixth Edition shows you how to trim extra whitespace from strings of text.You often (but not always) want to trim whitespace from the beginning and/or en...

By BrianSawyer : 23 August 2010 - 04:42 AM

The following screencast shows how to identify outliers within a column of data in a Google Spreadsheet and how to use a formula to remove them from an average calculation: Here is the first filter ...

By macslocum : 23 August 2010 - 02:51 AM

Business-to-business (B2B) marketing overlaps with the business-to-consumer (B2C) world in a basic sense: Marketers targeting either realm are focused -- at their core -- on converting a customer base...

By chco : 22 August 2010 - 08:05 PM

This excerpt from Using SQLite explains the differences between Core Data and SQLite and will help you decide which to use when developing on the iPhone.When the iPhone and iPod touch were first relea...