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By kbnotes : Today, 05:40 AM

Today we continue our serialization of excerpts from the forthcoming eBook, Managing and Implementing Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Projects (Microsoft Press) by Geoff Evelyn. from Chapter 10 Share...

By chco : Yesterday, 10:30 AM

The following excerpt is from MongoDB: The Definitive Guide. Below we have a reference of the most common commands used when administering MongoDB.At the time of this writing, MongoDB supports more th...

toLowerCase( ) y toUpperCase( ) methods convert the letters on uppercase or lowercase respectively. For example, we have programmed the question were you must write a word by an alert box but if ...

By chco : 04 September 2010 - 07:45 AM

A very useful feature of the iPhone is its global search function Spotlight. The excerpt below from iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition gives some pointers on how to use it effectively.Man, you...

The "slice( )" method is that which extract part of an string and gives an new string, requiring this method a number that indicates the index position and other that indicates the final pos...

By JulieLerman : 10 September 2010 - 02:28 PM

The Entity Framework is only the latest addition to the ADO.NET stack. How does that impact existing code that uses DataSets and DataReaders or LINQ to SQL? Can you continue to write new code using th...

Variables are containers that store data structures that are used by a program. When driving variables and functions, we must distinguish between two types of variables: LOCAL - Are those that are sp...

By chco : 10 September 2010 - 10:23 AM

The following excerpt is from the O'Reilly publication The Myths of Innovation. Below we have a list of ideas and approaches that can help you get the old creative juices flowing. Start an idea j...

By JonUdell : 10 September 2010 - 10:02 AM

Introduction When Twitter shut down HTTP basic authentication as a means of access to its API, the elmcity service -- which uses that API as described in The power of informal contracts -- had to...

By chco : 10 September 2010 - 06:07 AM

The following excerpt from the new O'Reilly Publication iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition gives some tips on various ways to get some music or video onto your iPhone. Once you have iTune...

By odewahn1 : 24 May 2010 - 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 chco : 09 September 2010 - 12:10 PM

Medium to large networks would be difficult to administrate and operate if every device was individually managed. Both the CLI and J-Web provide ways to monitor and configure a single node, but when t...

By chco : 09 September 2010 - 09:58 AM

The following excerpt from The Myths of Innovation gives an explanation of external factors that can affect the adoption of an innovative idea.The history of innovation reveals many ideas that dominat...

By chco : 09 September 2010 - 08:55 AM

Sometimes it's better to not use 3G on your iPhone. The following excerpt from iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition gives a step by step process for doing so.“How to Turn Off 3G?” Is thi...

By chco : 09 September 2010 - 05:09 AM

From time to time things can go wrong. You can be driving along in your car and a tire can blow out; sometimes a firewall can crash. Nothing that is made by humans is precluded from undergoing an unse...

By chco : 09 September 2010 - 03:56 AM

The following excerpt is from The Myths of Innovation. The author offers some ways to sift through ideas to find the best ones as well as the reasons people sometimes dismiss ideas too early.Linus Pau...