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Welcome to the latest issue of the Developer Shed newsletter! We're back on a normal schedule this week, digging in to offer you the best resources we can to help you get your job done. And we'll start off running with a brand-new article from eWeek for your perusal. It talks about the ramifications of Microsoft's exclusive deal with NBC to deliver live and on-demand Olympics coverage on MSN. The new wrinkle is that Microsoft is using its own Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform video plug-in to get them there. Steven Vaughan-Nichols thinks it heralds a new direction for Microsoft and highlights the increasing importance of Internet TV. What do you think? Dev Shed is full of fine learning experiences for you this week. We ran an article that covers Java classes, began a series about using Yahoo web services with PHP 5, and delved into the switch statement in PHP. On ASP Free, meanwhile, we continued our series on building your own online shopping web site; this time, we focused on user information management. We also published articles about Transact-SQL and VBScript date functions. Beginning web designers reading Dev Articles got a treat this week. We started a seven-part series on beginning HTML. For the somewhat more advanced, we also covered JavaScript errors. The hardware enthusiasts reading Dev Hardware, meanwhile, benefitted from reviews of the Nokia N95, a ViewSonic flat panel, some memory from G Skill (who? Read the article and find out!), and more. We ran a nice mix of articles on SEO Chat this week. First, we shared some excellent sources for news and information on SEO (other than our own site) -- very important for this constantly-changing field. We also did a review of Wikia Search, the search engine brought to you by the same company that created Wikipedia. Does it really offer a viable alternative to the big three search engines? Check out the review and find out. As always, thanks for reading. Until next week,Developer Shed Staff |
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Java Classes by James Payne, 2008-01-09 -- Well it's been a while since we discussed Java and I graced these pages with its complicated beauty (for an example of complicated beauty, take a peek at Hillary Swank, who is pretty in a well...complicated sort of way). In this new series of articles, we will be discussing Classes. Read the full article. Using Yahoo! Web Services with PHP 5 by Alejandro Gervasio, 2008-01-08 -- In the last few years, the utilization of different web services has become very popular with web developers. This growing trend owes a lot to the development of so-called mashup applications, where many of these web services are put to work seamlessly in conjunction, generally using a server-side programming language that is common to all of them. This article, the first in a six-part series, will get you started with using the Yahoo! Developer Framework in PHP 5 to build some useful web services. Read the full article. PHP: The Switch Statement and Arrays by James Payne, 2008-01-07 -- In our last exciting adventure (back in early November), we braved crocodiles, ravenous editors, most of the PHP statements, and beginning loops. In this edition we'll cover the final statement, the Switch, and discuss arrays. So sit back, order your R2D2 robot to bring you a cold, frosty Jolt Cola, and let's get cracking. Read the full article. Installing Apache by O'Reilly Media, 2008-01-03 -- In the second part to a six-part series on Apache installation and configuration, we will focus on selecting modules to install and begin to explore configuration and hardening. This article is excerpted from chapter two of Apache Security, written by Ivan Ristic (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596007248). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media. Read the full article. |
User Information Management for an ASP.NET AJAX Server-Centric Based Online Shopping Website by Xianzhong Zhu, 2008-01-09 -- In this seventh part of an eleven-part series, we will research common user information management tasks. This includes the topics of changing the password, modifying personal information, viewing private information, viewing the order information (discussed earlier), and more. Read the full article. Completing the Introduction to Transact-SQL by Barzan "Tony" Antal, 2008-01-08 -- In the first half of this series we learned the basics of Transact-SQL. In case you missed it, I strongly suggest you check it out before moving on with this segment. The programming concepts demonstrated there stand for a foundation on which we are going to build today. The first part of this series was also published here on ASP Free. Read the full article. VBScript Date Functions by James Payne, 2008-01-07 -- In our previous article we talked about loops and touched briefly upon creating your own functions. As you know, VBScript comes packed with its own pre-defined functions (like our buddy document.write), and in this article we are going to cover most, if not all, of the Date Functions. There are quite a few, so let's get started. Read the full article. Controlling the Display and Monitors with Windows Vista by O'Reilly Media, 2008-01-03 -- In this conclusion to a six-part series on personalizing Windows Vista, you'll learn how to control the display and handle multiple monitors. This article is excerpted from chapter four of Windows Vista Administration: The Definitive Guide, written by Brian Culp (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596529597). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media. Read the full article. |
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Client Dataset: Working with Data Packets and Applying Updates by Danish Ahmed, 2008-01-09 -- This article is the fifth part of my series on the Client Dataset available in Delphi. It will focus on how to work with data packets by using the features of client dataset/dataset provider components. Read the full article. Beginning HTML by James Payne, 2008-01-08 -- Ask anyone who invented the Internet, and they will likely look at you and shake their head in confusion, even though most people couldn't live without it for a day. Of course, if you asked Al Gore, he would say he did. But the people who really invented the Internet are also important for another, related reason. Read the full article. JavaScript Errors by James Payne, 2008-01-07 -- When last we spoke, we discussed the various Events in JavaScript. In this tutorial we will go over some of the errors that can occur and how to deal with them. I know, I know: how can any of your programs possibly fail when you have been taught by the JavaScript Ninja? Well, you can blame that on the good folks that create the various browsers. Read the full article. A Close Look at the SQL Query by O'Reilly Media, 2008-01-03 -- If you want to get a better understanding of the SQL query, you've come to the right place. This article is excerpted from chapter four of The Art of SQL, written by Stephane Faroult and Peter Robson (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596008945). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media. Read the full article. |
Nokia N95 by Joe Eitel, 2008-01-09 -- The Nokia N95 was not originally designed to be distributed in the United States, but after so many requests for this device coming from North America, Nokia decided to develop a U.S. version of the popular phone. This review will explore its various intricacies and specifications, so read on to find out if this phone is right for you. Read the full article. G Skill F2-6400CL5d-2GBNQ by jkabaseball, 2008-01-08 -- Sure, you have heard of Corsair, OCZ, Crucial, PNY and Kingston. But they aren’t the only companies in the memory industry. Today we are going to take a look at a product from another company called G. Skill. This review will examine the F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ and determine whether or not G. Skill has earned a place in the memory market. Read the full article. ViewSonic VX2245wm by Joe Eitel, 2008-01-07 -- For a company like ViewSonic, which is smaller than Dell and HP, it is sometimes difficult to keep up with the competition when it comes to LCD flat panels. ViewSonic is doing a fairly good job at creating new and innovative products, though. Keep reading to find out what ViewSonic has in store for the flat panel market with their VX2245wm LCD monitor. Read the full article. Navigon 5100 Portable GPS Device by Joe Eitel, 2008-01-03 -- When people think about portable GPS manufacturers, they usually think of Garmin, Magellan, and TomTom. Many people have not heard of Navigon, but they are not new to the GPS business. Navigon has been a leader in the GPS industry since 1991, but they have only recently begun to release portable GPS units in North America. Keep reading to see what they have done with their recently released Navigon 5100. Read the full article. |
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Wikia Search Goes Live in Alpha Mode by Terri Wells, 2008-01-09 -- What can you say about a search engine that goes live in alpha mode and publicly admits it is “aware that the quality of the search results is low”? Say hello to Wikia Search, the open source brainchild of Jimmy Wales, the father of Wikipedia. He believes Wikia Search offers an antidote to the “black box” approach of the major search engines. Is he right? Read the full article. Establishing Link Popularity and Increasing Exposure by Stephen Davies, 2008-01-08 -- Online marketing is fast becoming everyone’s cup of tea. It’s a common myth that one can easily earn high profits working from home. Not everyone who enters into business on the Internet succeeds. Just building a website isn’t enough to make money online. There are a lot of online business tactics you need to know and follow. Read the full article. Online Resources for Would-be SEOs by Terri Wells, 2008-01-07 -- Whether you’ve just learned what search engine optimization means or you smirk at the “googleprayer” tag, you know that SEO is one career that offers the ultimate in on-the-job training. So where do you turn for the textbooks? Keep reading for a guided tour. Read the full article. |
Filter This! by Michael Lowry, 2008-01-09 -- The other day I spilled fruit punch on my shorts because I was caught off guard by yet another discriminatory action perpetrated by an Internet Service Provider (ISP). At first I decided to let it slide, but then I realized these incidents are starting to pile up. Is the Internet on the brink of becoming a privately controlled resource? How many more stains will I have to endure? Keep reading to find out. Read the full article. Popular BitTorrent Clients in Review by Barzan 'Tony' Antal, 2008-01-02 -- Who would have guessed that Bram Cohen's peer-to-peer communication protocol could ever achieve this kind of success? Even the man himself probably couldn't have forecast its popularity when he designed the BitTorrent protocol in April 2001. However, the protocol as well as the client applications started to mature from early 2004. Read the full article. Web Browser-based Feed Aggregators by Barzan 'Tony' Antal, 2007-12-26 -- Thanks to the evolution of web browsers, at this time all contemporary browsers are highlighting feed aggregating features. This means that we can benefit from the popular RSS technologies within our browsers. It isn’t necessary to use dedicated standalone feed reader applications anymore. We can have it all browser-based! Read the full article.
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Weird and Cool Nanosheets and the Need for Speed It was back in 2004 that scientists at the University of Manchester first isolated graphene, a form of carbon arranged in a thin sheet with its atoms in a hexagon pattern. A stack of graphene yields graphite, but by itself, a layer of graphene a mere atom thick offers huge potential for use in electronic devices. This particular arrangement of atoms allows electrons to flow freely. Working with scientists from Russia, the Netherlands, and the US, researchers at the University of Manchester have been exploring graphene's properties. Recently they calculated that electrons should be able to travel through graphene far more easily than through any other material, including gold, silicon, gallium arsenide, and carbon nanotubes. This property could lead to the development of super-fast microelectronics. The best results are obtained from graphene that is as free of impurities as possible. And therein lies the challenge; it's difficult to make graphene in sheets that are both large enough and pure enough for industrial manufacture. For their experiments, the scientists made graphene by carefully peeling off layers of it from graphite with sticky tape; this in-the-lab technique would not scale well to commercial application. Researchers are working on a different technique that would allow them to "grow" a few thin layers of graphene by applying heat to silicon carbide wafers. A Chip for ET Hunters A new chip designed and created in Australia is undergoing tests to see if it will become part of the Square Kilometre Array. When finished in 2011, this telescope, which will also be located in Australia, will become the world's largest radio telescope. Its mission: find traces of the big bang, pulsars, magnetic fields, black holes, dark matter and even extraterrestrial life. The Square Kilometre Array will be the most sensitive radio telescope ever built. If all goes well, the chip, which took three months to design, will go on the front end of hundreds of highly sensitive radio receiver circuits. Professor Jack Singh, director of La Trobe University's Centre for Technology Infusion (one of the two organizations involved n the chip's creation), noted that its design required scientists "to overcome the inherent noise in an integrated circuit, and to produce an amplifier with the lowest noise possible, with broad frequency band and high gain." Scientists may find good reasons to produce more of these chips. Since it can operate at millikelvin temperatures, it may have applications in space-based electronic devices. It may also be of assistance here on the ground in quantum computer research. Current state-of-the-art quantum computer technologies need to operate at the lowest possible temperatures because quantum circuits "decohere" at the tiniest amount of electromagnetic or thermal noise. Consumer Electronics Show Starts 2008 Right No collection of weird and cool things this week would be complete without a mention of the Consumer Electronics Show. Kicked off January 7 in Las Vegas, CES featured one last keynote address by Bill Gates and far more gadgets than you can shake a stick at. Coverage of the event, which continues through the tenth, can be found at almost any news-related web site, especially those devoted to technology. At the time of this writing, CNet has yet to announce its pick for the "best of CES," but the finalists are in. They include the Garmin Nuvi 880, an HP Slimline, a Lenovo Idea Pad, and 11 others. The most impressive offering comes from Bug Labs, which offers an easy way to create hardware devices with various capabilities, thanks to small snap-together modules. It has reminded a number of commentators of Lego blocks. Will it win? It will be announced before you receive this newsletter; it looks like a crowd favorite. Those who made it to the show no doubt returned with tired feet. It features 2,700 exhibitors with products covering 30 categories, including audio, digital content creation and distribution, digital imaging, gaming, video, in-vehicle technology and more. Plasma TVs proliferated, but even little products got noticed somewhere, such as Planetwide Media's release of Comic Book 2, a computer program that lets users make their own comic strips and post them to blogs and social networks. Green emerged as a major theme, as car builders strove to make their vehicles more eco-friendly, and at least one company touted device chargers that rely on solar energy. |
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