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In response to my penultipate post, reader “David” (the other David?) xClaims: “Um, I don”t get it – what’s this for again? Is it a microformat or something? I herewith take xClaims are confounding.” My vote: Abstain + a Comment (infra): I try you, David. And point had. Note to Self: bear on to elaborate messaging [...]

Should you host your ain blog? If thence (or not) what are your options and why should you prefer one over another? These are vulgar questions from people who are debating geting into blogging for business or something beyond blogging on their MySpace or LiveJournal account. Based on my experience, hither is how I’d facilitate [...]

With the late buzz around OSGi and Java, modularity has filled center stage as a discussion topic in the Java community. This post incorporates a summary on a expert session entitled ‘Modularity in the Java Platform’ which discusses an alternate yet complementary spec to OSGi named Java Module System (JSR-277).

Alas I’m not talking about a Wiki that in reality is unnaturally sound, summarily taking itself out and keeping me gobs of time by geting a line off of the Google-Sphere. What I am speaking around is a site centered on overlaying the algorithms that a first year AI student might be faced with during their [...]

Do you cognize where your data is? If you’ve been involved with software at any point in the past two decades, chances are it’s in a database. It would appear goofy to set up data, specially ofttimes converting data, into code. How close to those business rules? Business rule engines haven’t been about as foresightful [...]

Coherent Algorithms , Harald Ganzinger and David McAllester. ICALP 2002. It is wide taken that many algorithms can be briefly and clear verbalised as ordered inference rules. Nevertheless, logic programming has been out or keeping for the study of the campaigning time of algorithms because there has not been a clear-cut and accurate model of [...]

Aaron Wall has an fantabulous explanation of why a click costs so much more on Google on medium than a click for the accurate same term on Yahoo. As he explicates, it rattling comes up down to the quality of the syndication partners Yahoo has partnered up with to display ads: How Click Arbitrage & [...]

The PDC has bechanced, which thinks two things.  I can mail some of my (somewhat self-baned) reactions to the show, and I can discuss what we ve disclosed about Whidbey and Longhorn more freely.  In this especial case, I had called to talk about the recondite changes we re making in Whidbey to allow you [...]

VS2008 and.NET Framework 3.5 propose a ton of customer value from Linq to Ajax and much more.  The service pack we have been acting on to round out out this release adds together still more newfangled value in addition to paying off a 100s of customer covered bugs!  All of it is driven by customer [...]

In this example I will exhibit a very bare call to the FlickR REST APIs from a Silverlight client. At the end we will terminate up with an app that appears like this: Part 1. Specify some Silverlight UI Part 2. Shew the local exposed file dialog support Part 3. Call in the FlickR Service [...]