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By macnlos  | 21 June 2011 - 04:45 AM

Earlier this year I looked at doing my taxes online but didn't because I wasn't keen on trusting Taxcut to hold and store my data up there in space. I believe we are moving toward more cloud ...

By kbnotes  | 20 June 2011 - 03:09 AM

Last month, Scott Helmers, MVP and author of Microsoft Visio 2010 Step by Step, presented a webinar at Experts Exchange titled, "Organizing Your Visio Diagrams with Containers and Lists." A...

By kbnotes  | 18 June 2011 - 03:22 AM

At the recent Microsoft Tech Days / United Kingdom 2011, Andrew Couch, MVP, and author of the forthcoming Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out, presented a session titled, "Microsoft ...

By tomwhite  | 28 October 2009 - 11:14 AM

To take advantage of the parallel processing that Hadoop provides, we need to express our query as a MapReduce job. After some local, small-scale testing, we will be able to run it on a ...

By chco  | 16 June 2011 - 10:16 AM

Relevance ranking functions take a number of different factors into account and compute a single relevance value for every given document. The following excerpt below from the O'Reilly public...

By Doron Katz  | 13 July 2010 - 12:31 AM

A quick hint. For those of you who use gmail and in fact use it on your iPhones, you might have had it configured through the normal Gmail option in your settings. There is in fact a much better way o...

By chco  | 11 May 2011 - 12:05 AM

The following excerpt from Learning Android will help you understand how activities and the Activity Manager are used for Android programming.An activity is usually a single screen that the user sees ...

By chco  | 14 June 2011 - 02:05 PM

The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Introduction to Search with Sphinx speaks to the easiest ways to work with multiple indexes. Under most circumstances, you will at some point ne...

By macnlos  | 13 June 2011 - 05:35 AM

Earlier this year I purchased a Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard Server. I did this so I could set up shared calendars with my family, facilitate wireless Time Machine Backups, host a local update r...

By chco  | 12 June 2011 - 05:09 PM

The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Introduction to Search with Sphinx will give you some insight into using stop words and short words when searching via Sphinx. All keywords are ...

By chco  | 09 June 2011 - 01:32 PM

If you would like to give some users the ability to enable call recording by pressing a key sequence during a call, the excerpt below from the O'Reilly publication Asterisk Cookbook speaks to how ...

By chco  | 08 June 2011 - 09:57 PM

Suppose you need people to be able to log in to any device and accept calls at that location, a feature known as hot-desking. The following excerpt below from the O'Reilly publication Asterisk Coo...

By sarahkim  | 08 June 2011 - 02:36 PM

The following excerpt from Introduction to Search with Sphinx shows you how to build Sphinx without installing a binary packages.Binary packages aren't always an option. They might not be availabl...