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Europe keeps US from top of spammers list
European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited mail than the US for the third month in a row, according to a recent study. Read more »
Control your search with new Google experiment
Google is experimenting with a new Web search interface that allows people to influence the results they get by indicating whether or not they like particular results. Read more »
Google releases near-final Android programming tool
Google on Monday released the first beta version of its software developer kit (SDK) for Android phones, a significant step in the company's hope for "open" phone technology. Read more »
Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet
Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Read more »
BT bets on open development
BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble? Read more »
Understand the ASP.NET DataGrid control
Need to get up to speed on the ASP.NET DataGrid control features? Try this introduction article on for size. Read more »
Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft
If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.Read more »
Firefox 3: New front in the browser war
Mozilla released Firefox 3 on Tuesday, opening a new front in the browser wars. Read more »
Google reveals Android's sensitive inner compass
Google has shown off Android's inner compass which allows the screen's view to mirror the holder's orientation. Read more »
OOXML ratification may be delayed after objection
The official standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format could be delayed after a formal objection letter was lodged. The letter claimed that OOXML's approval process " harmed the reputations of both ISO and IEC. Read more »
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Display data with .NET's ListView control
With the ListView control, you can display data according to your needs. Read more »
Browse ListView data with .NET's DataPager control
This article explains how you can use the DataPager control to page through ListView data. Read more »
Why CSS styling is for tables too
Don't embed formatting attributes your table markup. Instead, you can replace almost all the inline attributes of the table tags with CSS styling. Read more »
Update DTC list boxes with this client-side solution
Follow this easy client-side technique to modify a list box's contents when they're dependent on the selection in another list box. Read more »
Understand ASP.NET 2.0 configuration file processing
Configuration files are an important aspect of .NET development. Here's a closer look at how ASP.NET 2.0 uses configuration files (specifically machine.config and web.config). Read more »
Use ASP.NET's Literal control to its full potential
One option of placing text on an ASP.Net Web form is the Literal Web control, which allows you to place and easily manipulate text within a page. Read more »
Implement custom paging with SQL Server 2005
In previous columns, I covered the basics of using the .NET 3.5 ListView control and explained how to pair it with the DataPager control. Now I'll show you how to use these controls with a SQL Server 2005 backend to implement custom paging, in which only a subset of the data is retrieved for display. Read more »
ASP.NET basics: Working with the TextBox control
Developers often overlook basic programming options in favor of new or cool ways to deliver results. This is true for many of the standard ASP.NET features. A good example is the TextBox Web control, which offers plenty of options for building applications. Read more »
Formatting data in columns with ASP.NET's DataList control
ASP.NET provides plenty of data controls to present data in a variety of ways. One common format is displaying a list of items in column format. Learn how to achieve this layout with the DataList control. Read more »
Drill down into data with ASP.NET 2.0's DetailsView control
While the GridView control makes it easy to work with sets of data, you often need to work with the data in individual GridView rows or records. Another new ASP.NET 2.0 control, DetailsView, makes it easy. Read more »
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Design websites with Dreamweaver CS3 layouts
-- Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to accelerate your Web design process by providing 32 sample CSS layouts. Read more »
The future remains yesterday
-- Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »
Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »
Sysadmin hijacks San Francisco while Torvalds attacks security circus
-- This edition of the Weekly Roundup looks at how one man has taken over the network of the city of San Francisco, take a glance at a local news start-up and Linus Torvalds calls out the IT security sector. Read more »
Know when to walk away, know when to run
-- As a software developer, there are certain projects you want to avoid. For me, that is usually the project where the end-users design the entire application -- you know the type I am talking about. Read more »
Samba gets an inside look at Microsoft documentation
-- A complicated third-party arrangement means that the open-source Samba project will be able to make use of proprietary documents describing Microsoft file-sharing software. Read more »
Anti-Virus software hit with 6 critical vulnerabilities
-- Kaspersky Labs announced over easter that their latest maintenance pack fixes six critical security vulnerabilities in their anti-virus software. The security flaws affect the Anti-Virus 6.0 and Internet Security products, including both the workstation and server editions. Read more »
Firefox runs amok - thanks to Google
-- A hidden feature of Firefox can result in the downloading of cookies and Web pages that the user did not intend by doing a Google search. Read more »
Technology that will still suck in '07
-- As another year begins I thought I'd compile a short list of technology I think will still suck in 2007. Read more »
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Share a keyboard and mouse with Synergy
Even in the era of virtualization, many IT pros (including myself) have a small army of computers sitting on, under, and around their desks. Read more »
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Android devs less than gruntled
Yet more discouraging news on the Android front. Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a petition that called for more to be given to the wider community. Read more »
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As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »
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Club Builder: Captain Obvious vs the Crackpots
In the case of the bleeding obvious, IBM says open source needs good designers; a claim is made that China can activate your phone to snoop on you; and we take a look at the Defcon conference.
