Don't let Chrome & Firefox remember your passwords on a shared computer

If you like your browser to remember your passwords, you would have to be careful if you are agreeing to this setting in Chrome & Firefox, especially on a shared computer.Any unscrupulous person can find them out with little effort as this post by Roy Osherove explains.With Firefox, the default...

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Some Software Engineering Myths Busted

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. – Bill GatesNachi Nagappan, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research worked with Microsoft development teams to validate conventional software-engineering wisdom and came out with these findings...

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Interviews with Programming legends

Jeff Atwood points out that key interviews from the book Programmers at Work (1986) are available online.This includes 6 out of the 19 interviews in that book with the following luminaries -Charles SimonyiButler LampsonJohn WarnockGary Kildall Bill GatesJohn PageAlso see:"The History of Microsoft" SeriesThe...

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Mapping APIs for India

There are quite a few free mapping services for India on the Web but only some among them offer APIs that web publishers can extend & integrate in their own websites.There is news now that BIG Maps has also released its application programming interface (API). The documentation is pretty comprehensive...

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My favorite Developer Cheat-Sheets

The SEO Cheat Sheet I ran into recently .........reminded me of all the other Cheat-Sheets that have helped me in the past -CSS Cheat-Sheet JavaScript Cheat-SheetjQuery Cheat-SheetRegular Expressions Cheat-SheetWeb Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet Also see:Keyboard shortcuts common to Firefox & IE 8My...

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Google Spreadsheet Size Limits

I found that the column T is the last you will find by default in a sheet in Google Spreadsheets. After a little digging, I found that it can have up to 256 columns, or up to 200,000 cells, or up to 100 sheets -- whichever limit is reached first. There's no limit on number of rows.So how do you go beyond...

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SQL Server DATENAME function returns Month number instead of name?

I recently came across a query posted by a puzzled developer -Why does SELECT DATENAME(MONTH,GETDATE()) return '09' instead of the obvious result of 'September'?The DATENAME function, after all, returns a character string representing the specified datepart of the specified date.It turns out that if...

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Free Anti-Virus Software from Microsoft

There are at least 36 AV software tools for the Windows Platform out of which about a dozen are free. Now, Microsoft Security Essentials joins that list. It is a free download that requires the OS where it is installed to be genuine Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7It is lightweight & provides real-time...

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MVP award renewed

Microsoft recognizes those who make contributions to technical communities with the annual Most Valuable Professional award. I'm thrilled to receive the news that this award which I first received in 2005 & in subsequent years has been renewed for this year as well. I thank everyone who made this...

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