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We hardly put up some updated bits and samples for ASP.NET Active Data… I advance you to plump foot them up and allow us experience what you intend…

Some coolheaded newfangled stuff in this release:

1. Ocular Studio Integration is much uncontaminating
2. Right away sustains "pretty" URLs
   http://products/details/1 rather of http://products/details.aspx?id=123
3. Full documentation
4. Extra support for 3rd party control vendors and O/R Mappers (more details making out before long)

Scott Hunter of late did a HanselMinutes podcast that you should discipline out..

ScottGu did a post of late that arrives at the high-pitched points of Active Data… 

Hold them a try, we’five hundred love to have your feedback!

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamicdata

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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 the run time of a logic program. We lay out a logic programming model of computation appropriate for the study of the run time of a wide of the mark variety of algorithms.

Thusly, there are two independent styles in logic programming. The first is Prolog-style goal-placed, or rearwards, search. The idea is that you have a set of rules, and a goal, and you nondeterministically take rules that might have demonstrated that goal, straining to regain a sequence of deductions that could have shown this goal. It’s sent for backward look since you are straining to reason out backward from the goal towards a good proof.

The other style is, course, sent for frontward search (bewilderingly, this is as well sent for the reverse method in theorem testing). The idea is that you have a goal, and some rules, and a geting going set of facts. You and then hold the rules to the facts you have, lucubrating your database of facts and enabling more deductions. You maintain coming this until either you observe the goal you were stressing to prove in the database of facts, or the database impregnates (ie, no more deductions are demonstrable) and the goal is unprovable. The idea is that your database is an inexplicit data structure, which you update as part of the search. This makes believe frontward look for a particularly lifelike method when you’re proving to cipher closures — graph algorithms, dataflow analyses, that kind of thing.

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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 & Foul Ad Syndication Killed Yahoo! Search Commercializing

Frame another way, a Yahoo! click for mortgage is deserving the same $15 that it costs on Google, but it gos for less than $5 because Yahoo! squeezes advertisers to eat on junk traffic as well. If Yahoo! almost wiped out off their syndication partnerships (at least all but the cleanest ones) their forgetful term revenue might diminish, but their click values & click prices would precipitously increase.

A usual misperception is that a click for a thrown term should be nearly adequate across all search sites. If someone is looking for a mortgage, is shouldn’t work much difference whether they bechance to start out their mortgage searches by typewriting the term into Google or Yahoo’s search box. And this is straight for the most part, alfresco of some demographic differences between search sites.

What’s killing Yahoo’s cost per click is their syndication partners. An ad placed into Yahoo’s search commercializing program looks not merely on Yahoo (where you’d ask it to) but as well on over 1000 extra sites through syndication relationships Yahoo has built over time. Yahoo cleaves the value of each click with the syndication partners. Unluckily, traffic from syndication partners – on average – performs big than traffic on Yahoo itself. How much risky? Enough to draw the value of a click on Yahoo 1/3 of what it might be on Google for the same term.

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For Java developers expending the Spring framework, the project late denoted an of import milestone in the form of Web Flow 2.0 which builds upon the MVC module used in Spring apps.

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I don’t know if Leanord Shapiro is a blogger or whether his work appears in the Washington Post on a regular basis.
What I do know is that this post about Mixed Martial Arts and CBS is absolutely ridiculous and worthless.

Nor do I have any idea what “ Special to washingtonpost.com” means. Does it mean that this is exclusive to the newspaper’s website ? My guess is that in this case it actually describes Mr Shapiro’s reduced faculties and no one wants to use a pejorative adjective. Hence the use of the word “special”.

What I do know is that Mr Shapiro is hopelessly out of touch, and unquestionably uneducated about Mixed Martial Arts and the athletes that participate when he says “You put two guys (usually heavily tattooed) in a ring enclosed by a cage, surrounded by a howling mob, and just watch the blood flow as they pummel themselves into submission, or occasionally break a bone or three. That’s entertainment?”

The he shows his sexist side with ” Oh yes, women will also fight it out on CBS, yet another revolting development.”

Then to show how little mis-informed he is ” Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is getting involved, promoting MMA matches and also airing them on his HDNet channel on DirecTV. For that alone David Stern ought to fine and suspend him. He probably yells at those refs, too “.

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I speaking tomorrow at a internal Microsoft event. I’ve spoken at tons of conferences (PDC, TechEd, etc.) and for groups ranging form 1 to 2000. Today I did the rehearsal for one of the demos i’m going and it didn’t really work… I had tomorrow blocked off to run through all the presentations to make sure i’m ready, but sometimes its good to get a little slap in the face to remind me to prepare adequatly… it’s easy to get a little cavalier about these things…

Scott made a good posting about presentations also…

http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/111

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I just noticed that the good folks at Pixel8 posted a podcast I did with them a while back.  It was a fun conversation about a bit of.NET history as well as where we are going. 

Landing Page   Download show

I’d love the hear what you think!

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/15/brad-abrams-pixel8-interview-podcast-posted.aspx

My original posts on Finalization and Hosting had some hokey XXXXX markers in place of content, where that content hadn’t already been disclosed in some form.  Now that the Visual Studio 2005 Community Preview is available, I’ve gone back to those two posts and replaced the XXXXX markers with real text.

Also, it’s obviously been a while since my last post.  I started writing something this weekend, but the weather here has been spectacular and I was compelled to go outside and play.  I’ll try to have something in the next couple of weeks.

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2004/04/26/120609.aspx

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With a simple extension method to ControlCollection to flatten the control tree you can use LINQ to query the control tree:

public static class PageExtensions
{
 public static IEnumerable<Control> All(this ControlCollection controls)
 {
 foreach (Control control in controls)
 {
 foreach (Control grandChild in control.Controls.All())
 yield return grandChild;

 yield return control;
 }
 }
}

Now I can do things like this:

// get the first empty textbox
TextBox firstEmpty = accountDetails.Controls
.All()
.OfType<TextBox>()
.Where(tb => tb.Text.Trim().Length == 0)
.FirstOrDefault();

// and focus it
if (firstEmpty != null)
 firstEmpty.Focus();

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background-color: #ffffff;
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