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Brian Carter of Fuel Interactive brings up an interesting point about the effectiveness of keywords in the longsighted tail of pay per click advertising. It has long (in Internet time) been intended that advertising on a immense portfolio of search terms will yield best returns because you’ll pay off a trickle of traffic from thousands [...]

I had skiped this article would be on changes to the next version of the CLR which let it to be hosted inside SQL Server and other “ambitious” environments.  This is more by and large interesting than you might cogitate, because it makes an opportunity for other processes (i.e. your processes) to host the CLR [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today, I used up a much asked break to go to a Microsoft Research talk by Paul Dietz , who is a scientist at the Mitsubishi Galvanizing Research Lab (MERL ). In discovering one of his inventions, a system that automagically pinks your waitress when your glass is half empty-bellied, Paul identifyed RFID tags as a “inactive, [...]

Also see: Doing the Deal and Dishing the Dirt Scenario: You have two web applications www.mydomain.com and login.mydomain.com. The login site provides a centralized login application and www contains any number of web applications that should use the auth ticket issued by the login site. The auth ticket can be setup to be shared across [...]

Also see: Web Access for Visual Studio Team System No matter how faithfully you try to follow your chosen project methodology (Scrum, Extreme Programming, Waterfall, CMMI, etc.) ultimately the strengths, weaknesses, successes, and failures you experience are determined by the habits, attitude, and style of the project manager and team members on the project.  How is communication conducted? Meetings, hallway, bullpen, email, [...]