Florida Primary : The billionaire businessman Jeff Greene,

Florida Primary : The billionaire businessman Jeff Greene, who ran as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate, and multi-millionaire health care executive Rick Scott, who ran the Republican nomination for governor, have positioned as newcomers fresh ready to take on the establishment candidate, Democrat Kendrick...

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Notes from Tech-Ed session "Team Foundation Server for Everyone"

The video recording of Martin Woodward's two sessions at Tech-Ed, NA 2011, Team Foundation Server for Everyone & The Accidental Team Foundation Server Admin provide an overview of TFS 2010 in about 2 hours. Some notes -TFS installation choices - Basic, AdvancedTFS Basic Wizard - most...

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IBM turns 100

To highlight its achievements in the 100 years of its existence, IBM has released a full-page ad in some Indian newspapers & a dedicated site for IBM's 100 Icons of Progress. A few interesting facts & trivia from that list of accomplishments -IBM programmer John Backus and...

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Notes from Tech-Ed session "Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 for Developers"

Steve Evans' presentation "Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 for Developers" at Tech-Ed, NA 2011, had some interesting IIS tips & tricks. I transcribed some of them from the more than hour-long video recording on Channel9 -- Developers have Swiss cheese knowledge – they know a lot but...

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JavaScript: The Good Parts - photo gag

Photo gag by an observant Niyaz PK (click on image to enlar...

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Try these VHDs instead of using any pirated Microsoft software

Programming with new Microsoft products & technologies does not have to cost anything. Besides offering time-limited (trial editions) or feature-limited (Express editions) versions of its products, MS also makes available VHDs of some of its popular products. Here is a list of such VHDs that I've...

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Google Maps Driving Directions gadget - useful for a "Contact Us" page

Google organizes "the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful" but info about some of its own products may be a little difficult to find. If there was a reference to Driving Directions gadget & the Static Maps wizard on the Google Maps API Family page, they could...

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Free, online, open-source book on web performance - Book of Speed

Stoyan Stefanov, a web performance expert, Facebook engineer, ex-Yahoo, smush.it creator & YSlow 2.0 architect, has released the draft of Book of Speed for free & public access. Currently 5 of the planned 9 chapters are online.In his blog post announcing the release, he also mentions...

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Chrome Offline Installer

Chrome uses a installer that you have to first get which then downloads the latest stable version of the browser. If you have to install Chrome on several machines, you can grab the offline installer. That way, you don't even need internet connectivity for each install.I found this helpful tip on the...

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HOW TO export Contacts from a LG CDMA Mobile to newer phones

I recently needed to copy Contacts from a LG-Reliance CDMA Mobile handset to a GSM smartphone. After a bit of monkeying around with the available options, I found that you can copy Contacts to the CDMA SIM.I inserted the CDMA SIM into the GSM smartphone and could successfully copy the Contact details...

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Popular sites which use Lucene

List compiled from Lucene wiki's link database & references in various online articles -AppleDisneyIBMLinkedInWolfram Research, Inc. - Wolfram Research uses Lucene for internal tools, the Demonstrations project, the Mathematica documentation search and site searching.PluralsightStackOverflow(work...

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