Archive for the ‘Articles’ Category
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
John Wesley writes (Why the 9 to 5 Office Worker Will Become a Thing of the Past, found via War-N) about how the traditional work day (”9-5″) is very inefficient for many of today’s workers, and ends up with less productive, less satisfied employees.
A continuous 8 hour work day is ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
When a person chooses to create a new blog, there are two routes to choose from: you can use one of the popular hosted blogging services (like Blogger or Wordpress.com) or you host the blog yourself. The first option is definitely the easiest - someone else worries about all of ...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
In response to Jeff Atwoords post, Mike Gunderloy explained why he is seeking to move away from the Microsoft programming world and into Rails and open source. One sentence stuck out to me from his post:
Now, if the Microsofts of the world have their way, we’ll end up with everything ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
My wife and I are in the process of designing a kitchen (with the aid of our architect) for our new home. The locations of the windows, walls, fridge, oven and sinks is basically set. So the remaining design consists of choosing the number, size and layout of all of ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
In a WinForms project that I am working on right now, I have text stored in HTML format in the database. I need a way for novice users to be able to edit this text using a WYSIWYG interface.
The most obvious choice for this in the Windows.Forms control library that ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Inspired by the 30 Days with Ubuntu article on [H]Consumer (I had been considering trying it out for some time), I went over to the download page on Ubuntu.com, and downloaded a torrent for Ubuntu 6.1 for i386 desktop. Went to sleep. By the time I woke up this morning ...
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