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I've been helping some friends with a website recently and it's just entered a public beta. CreateDebate.com is an online debating community that lets users make new open debates and see what people think about issues. Check it out, it's easy to create new debates and arguments and check out where everyone stands.
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What have people heard about the new Avalon / XAML programming practice MS seems to be pushing? To me it seems almost parallel to the Java/Javascript division, with new twists thrown in. What it promises (if it is integrated into IE as I think it will
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I was thinking about how to get around the limitations some sites have on the http-referer for pictures (mostly webcomics that don't want deep linking of pics), and I came up with an interesting idea. Using the strange qualities of Response.Write() and
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One of the problems with long web queries is user feedback. If a SQL command takes seconds or even minutes to complete, or if some other heavy processing must be done, users must wait idly as the status bar creeps along, blindly guessing at how long
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While your head is still spinning from the last post, don't think that SQL server is the answer either. If an adversary knows your SQL server setup, they can find weaknesses in your database calls and do "sql server injection attacks." Basically, since
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I just realized that since our xml data files have to be set ASPNETuser readable, if an adversary knew their location, he could read all the data, including users and passwords. I'm not sure how much is needed, but here are some possible solutions depending
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just noticed today that you can actually tell if a dvd is dual layer just by looking at it. The grooves in the two layers create interference and create a kind of moire effect. Single layer dvds don't have the interference and they have a flatly mirrored
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In response to the feedback from my last blog agent post, the limiting factor in the blog agent project is definitely not the bandwidth. By no means am I attempting to engineer a Google-scale application, searching billions of pages. This is a much
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The real reason I wanted to have a blog web service, as I stated in my last post, is that I'm looking at storing web data I scrape off the internet in a blog or blog-structured database, an idea I disucussed a while back. The nice thing about the blog
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browsing around for more info:weblog mentioned on a slashdot about the BBC article with a little more info.the whitepaper on MIT group's UI. They bring up some vaild points about the display being very small, task management in that environment, etc.
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A recent BBC article highlighted the oncoming wave of wearable computing devices. While currently the iPod is the biggest hit, with any luck pervasive computing will grow. Some issues still need to be resolved before this becomes a reality:
A power
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bored, so I'm going to try and think through the blog subscription problem. The system should have 3 parts: the frontend, which users sign up for blogs in, including the keyword filter section, the backend, which uses the subscription information to
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Andy has a good rating idea for his blog rating system. However, blog syndication is hard to track, since not all people use the standard methods of syndication. A better idea might be to use a google-like system of, where the rating is determined by
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Today I heard about an interesting way to check the weather. The weather network has an image at http://www.theweathernetwork.com/inter/weathercentre/weatherbutton/images/usa/BOS.gif, which updates every so often to show the current weather status in
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the rss searcher could also be used as an efficient form of upstream blog filtering, as discussed briefly in . To reiterate, if a group wanted to have a site dedicated to mentions of longhorn rumors, or SCO rants, they could syndicate many news sources
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google beat me to it :(I run my own little scraper portal called webwalkby, so named because it "walks by" some of the major sites I read frequently every so often and caches their content as rss streams. It grabs me comics, headlines from slashdot, and
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Everyone's heard by now that Longhorn's shipping with a relational database driven file system. While all kinds of problems and perks come with this decision, this decision runs deeper than the obvious implications. By using a relational database, winFS
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Thinking about the IESL blogportal: it would be nice to have an upstream RSS of all our blog entries. i.e. a combined listing of all the blogs the entire group did. This shouldn't be that difficult to hack together given the component rss feeds. Might
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