World map [http://postini.com/stats/world-spam-2048.jpg] showing known sources of unwanted email. “The hotspots coincide with known major computer-whiz centers. ” [via QuiteATake [http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1024785,00030007.htm]]…
I was looking at Lucene .NET [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucenedotnet] for a full-text search engine implementation?but I was surprised to find out that the Lucene.NET application library is not open source anymore. It has been relaunched as a commercial product called SearchBlackBox [http://searchblackbox.com/]. Lucene .NET…
Marathi film Shwaas will be India’s entry for the Oscars this year (2004) under the best foreign film category. More … [http://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/sep/24shwas.htm]…
Here’s a TSQL optimization tip: it seems like a single SELECT statement is faster than multiple SET statements. SET @foo1 = 0 SET @foo2 = 0 SET @foo3 = 0 ... is slower than one SELECT like: SELECT @foo1 = 0, @foo2 = 0, @foo3 = 0 [via Jason Lautzenheiser [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/harpua/archive/…
.NET Quick Reference Card [http://www.reflectionit.nl/RefCard.aspx] by Fons Sonnemans, is a small quick reference card for Microsoft .NET with some hard to remember details.…
POBS – PHP Obfuscator [http://pobs.mywalhalla.net/] (open source)…
Tim Ewald, the architect of the MSDN2 web site [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/default.aspx] (still in alpha) talks about how and why it was built and points out some undocumented features [http://pluralsight.com/blogs/tewald/archive/2004/09/23/2368.aspx], particularly in the new URL by…
Framewerk [http://www.framewerk.org/] engine is an object-oriented PHP5 [http://www.php.net/] based website development platform.…