Free ebook - Firefox 3 REVEALED

Firefox 3 REVEALED - What's New, What's Hot & What's Not by Fabio Cevasco is a free ebook from SitePoint. You need to provide them your email-id & they send you the link to the 1.2MB zip file.It covers the new features of Firefox 3 from the regular user's & Developer's perspective. At just...

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Geek Talk

If you love geek talk, check out Scott Hanselman's podcasts. The PDF transcripts for it are also available. He picks an unusual but interesting technical topic each time & discusses them with experts. The conversations are engaging and generate a lot of insightful thoughts to ponder about.I liked...

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20 SQL Server 2005 Keyboard Shortcuts

What is the bored mother of a geek called? MotherboardThere are a bunch of SQL Server 2005 Keyboard Shortcuts on MSDN, but I find these 20 super convenient & use it very often.DescriptionShortcutCreate a New File CTRL+NToggle full screen mode SHIFT+ALT+ENTERSet or remove a bookmark at the current...

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E-Commerce in India

As per this Excel report "An Analysis on the behaviour of Payment Gateways during the month May-08" on IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited), the Indian Railway's internet ticket booking website logged over 3 million (3,403,495) transactions amounting to Rs. 233 crores (INR...

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CAPS LOCK may lock your account

You know your day is not going well when you are prevented from logging into a website that you visit everyday because you typed the wrong password. Panic can strike when you realize that you have just one more chance before you Internet banking account or some equally important website account that...

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Which is better - EXISTS check or SELECT COUNT(*) ?

A nice explanation from a detailed article in SQLMag -Using the T-SQL EXISTS keyword to perform an existence check is almost always faster than using COUNT(*). EXISTS can stop as soon as the logical test proves true, but COUNT(*) must count every row, even after it knows one row has passed the test.I...

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HOW TO convert authenticated / protected pages to PDF

There are free HTML to PDF online/desktop converters that can convert web pages to PDF. Web2PDF Online is a free service that accepts a URL & generates a PDF file for it. But what if you wanted to convert web pages that are authenticated / protected to PDF for convenient offline access?CutePDF Writer...

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