Thoughts and dreams for a better world… one smile, beat, code at a time
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What’s New in Internet Explorer 8
IE8 is still in it's beta stage and expected to be released in this or next year. [more] But here's an overview of what's to come : What's New in Internet Explorer 8 Or register to Microsoft Connect and access this link Internet Explorer Beta Feedback There are a lot of links to checkout but…
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Philippines Launch 2008 Public Registration Open
As previously posted, Philippines' Launch for Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio 2008 public registration is now open as of March 24 and is accesible from here
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Six Head First Books in Oreilly Top Ten
I just thought I’d share that as of today, six of the top ten books at safari.oreilly.com comes from the Head First Series. Namely: [more] Head First C# Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML Head First Design Patterns Head First JavaScript Head First Servlets and JSP Head First SQL For me, this says a…
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Microsoft Connect is back up
The new and improved Microsoft Connect v3.0 (a way to share and connect with Microsoft regarding their products) is up as of Saturday, March 22, 2008. [more] “You can participate in Microsoft Connect in several ways, such as downloading the latest software and written material, taking surveys, exchanging ideas in newsgroup forums, and, most importantly,…
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Feedback on Second Shot exam offer
Reposting a post from GerryO about Feedback on Second Shot I don’t have to reiterate the advantage of these exams and consequently offers like these so if you have time I think completing surverys for these do improve our certification experiences. Complete this short survey (just 12 questions) Some people might not like the idea…
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Source Code of Projects from Microsoft ASP.NET Team Now On CodePlex
A little after I posted about my picks on CodePlex I came across a new project names "ASP.NET". Hmmm, what could it be? Checking it out, it was the new project created that "gives you access to the code for upcoming releases that the Microsoft ASP.NET team is working on, starting with the ASP.NET MVC…
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Ruby and C# equivalents
Ruby has been gaining a lot of popularity lately (if not even months/year ago) but as I can't even get myself full of .NET I never really given it some look until now. It looks like the advantage of Ruby over other languages is [more]the expression of the developer's intent along with shorter code. It…
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MDAC, SNAC and ADO.NET (Data Access Technologies)
I've been working with ADO.NET for sometime and so know a thing or two about it but what about MDAC, SNAC? How do they fit in and relate to each other (if at all) Starting off with a few acronyms: MDAC – Microsoft Data Access Components SNAC – SQL Native Client ADO – ActiveX Data…
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My bookwormr Account
Just came across this site for bookworms. There you will books I’ve read, reading and will read (hopefully) as well as reviews for those books if I have time and if I’m even good at it. I was thinking of [more] having my book list and reviews here in my site or my blog but…
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My Picks at CodePlex
Been up for around 24 hrs yesterday and guess what I’ve been doing? Browsing projects in CodePlex This is the first time I did this and for sure there are a lot of benefits you could think of but here’s my list: finding interesting starter kits some basis / base code for future projects getting…
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