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Posted by on 23rd November, 2003

Road Runner Flash Portal

This amazing portal reminds us of what Flash is capable of and is cleverly applied to an application that we used to think "just could not be done in Flash". See for yourself how enjoyable surfing through this site is and you may even make it your homepage… Check it out: max2003.rr.com/flash/index.cfm (via...

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Posted by on 17th November, 2003

Google Zeitgeist (search patterns)

For both breaking news and obscure information alike, people around the world search on Google at www.google.com. With a bit of analysis, this flurry of searches often exposes interesting trends, patterns, and surprises. On a monthly, weekly, and sometimes daily basis, the Google Zeitgeist page will be updated to reflect lists, graphs, and other tidbits of information related to Google user search behavior....

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Posted by on 17th November, 2003

Flash motion synthesizer

German company that studies animate motion patterns and several aspects of visual perception and cognition created this neat Flash tool that demonstrates that biologically and socially relevant information about a person is conveyed in biological motion patterns. It allows you to manipulate a number of parameters controlling the characteristics of human walking. You can interactively change biological properties, personality traits and emotional expression of a point-light walker. Check it out: www.bml.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Demos/BMLwalker.html or...

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Posted by on 13th November, 2003

What is bad about Microsoft

From half-truths to the simply absurd, this link describes what the anti-Microsoft crowd thinks and also provides a generous list of alternative software. I do not agree, but my views are objective and respect other people's opinions. It is in any case, quite entertaining…Via Marcie Robillard....

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Posted by on 13th November, 2003

NoSpamEmailHyperlink

If you have any e-mail addresses in the generated source of your site, especially in href=mailto: type links, there is a good chance that those addresses will later start receiving spam e-mails from any number of servers. Here are some good tricks to fool spammer spiders. written by Paul Riley. There is a simple Javascript trick and the rest is pretty much .NET, but if you develop in another language, you can still extract the concept and rewrite it to suit your platform. Fighting back against the e-mail...

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Posted by on 12th November, 2003

The standalone programmer

Here are some excellent articles, offering advice, tips and project related events some of us are well familiar with. All articles written by Matt Gullett: The Standalone Programmer: A question of quality Can a standalone developer develop high quality software and compete with teams of developers? The Standalone Programmer: Communicating with Users Communicating with users requires alot of experience and effort but can be easier by following some simple rules. The Standalone Programmer: Delivering high quality results Simple steps that can be taken to insure that high quality results are the norm, not the exception. The Standalone Programmer: Innovative Software Development Sometimes rules interfere with talent, skills and experience when innovation is needed The Standalone Programmer: Real Time Software Development Coping with the challenges of the real-time enterprise requires new skills, a commitment to change and some new approaches. The Standalone Programmer: Simple Performance Testing A simple framework for creating customized performance tests The Standalone Programmer: Tips from the trenches Being a standalone programmer can be as good or...

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Posted by on 11th November, 2003

Recalling Voyager

By now should have heard the news that Voyager has reached the edge of the solar system, although many scientist dispute that statement. In any case, you may also know about the golden records that are onboard each one of the Voyagers (I and II). I had known about the records and their purpose, but never really researched the actual content…..untill now. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has this Flash presentation displaying the contents of the records. I will keep the details of my opinion to myself but I think the Voyager needs to be recalled immediately, before anyone out there happens to find it… I am from this world, and believe have half a brain and I am not sure I would be able to figure out, by looking solely at the engravings, that the needle placed on the spinning disk would produce some sort of visible images. And then the images they picked….! But then again, I am just a sofware developer…what do I know?. Check...

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Posted by on 9th November, 2003

Visual Studio .NET Documentation Update

Microsoft has updated the Visual Studio .NET 2003 documentation to include over 5,000 additional code examples for C++, C# and VB.NET, bug fixes, improved content and additional clarifications. You will need Windows 2000 or XP, VS.NET 2003 and MSDN Library for Visual Studio .NET 2003. Plus a fairly decent connection since it's an 80Mb download. Grab the files here:...

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