Monthly Archives: January 2011

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Hulu Owners Looking To Make Hulu Even More Useless

It’s been almost two years since we suggested it might be impossible for Hulu to survive, given that it was in a bit of a “rock and a hard place” situation. The only way for it to really succeed long-term online was to disrupt the existing TV business… Continue reading

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For Google’s AdWords, relevance takes time

Breaking news or a sudden surge in a search query can reveal a problem for Google: the system used to rank relevant ads can take hours to reach a conclusion. Originally posted at Relevant Results

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jQuery, ASP.NET, Silverlight, LINQ and .NET articles Link List – January 2011

Here’s a quick wrap up of the jQuery, ASP.NET, Silverlight, LINQ, Visual Studio and other .NET articles published on www.DevCurry.com in the month of January 2011.ASP.NET and Silverlight ArticlesCompress Session State in ASP.NET 4 – ASP.NET 4 introdu… Continue reading

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Lead Inventor On One Of The Patents Paul Allen Is Suing Over Worries About Litigation Over Innovation

We’ve been covering Paul Allen’s move into patent trolling in which he’s suing Google, Apple, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Yahoo and others over a set of incredibly broad patents, covering things like “recommendations,” “alerts” and popping up informa… Continue reading

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week

Unlike last week, where we had one user dominate the favorite comments of the week (for both funny and insightful), this week it’s back to a bit more normal, with the tops in each being separate. Leading the “insightful” crew (by a wide margin) was Th… Continue reading

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.NET Web Camps Training Kit – January 2011

The .NET Web Camps Training Kit is out for you to download. This free training kit covers the following technologies: ASP.NET MVC 2 jQuery Entity Framework Visual Studio 2010 Internet Explorer 9 and HTML5 Web Applications WebMatrixFor those who are new… Continue reading

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Having the Last Word with Java and Groovy

For the past several months, I have been somewhat of a Groovy evangelist and have been touting the virtues of Groovy to Java developer colleagues. Recently, a colleague asked if Groovy has a slick way for extracting the last word from a sentence. My im… Continue reading

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Quickly query Wikipedia by using the Linux CLI

Stuck at a CLI prompt in Linux and not sure what Romania is? Use the following command:
dig +short txt Romania.wp.dg.cx
Subsitute Romania for any other keyword you might want to see a short description of in your command line.

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JohnJac’s Favorite Posts Of The Weeks

Last week JohnJac totally dominated the favorite comments, so we figured we might as well let him do the favorite posts of the week this week.

I really, really, wanted this post to be funny and�optimistic.�However as I read Techdirt, it became cle… Continue reading

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Add Days to Date in JavaScript

A common requirement while working with dates in JavaScript is to add days to a date. Let us see how to do this in JavaScriptJavaScript provides the Date object for manipulating date and time. Amongst the various methods of the Date object, the one wil… Continue reading

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