Google Browser

Clues may point to Google browser [http://news.com.com/Clues may point to Google browser/2100-1032_3-5379625.html?tag=cd.lede] – … rumors are that the search company plans to introduce a Google-branded Web browser [http://www.gbrowser.com/] down the road. Among the clues are a domain-name registration, a…

pinvoke.net

pinvoke.net [http://pinvoke.net/], the interop wiki! [http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki], attempts to address the difficulty of calling Win32 or other unmanaged APIs in managed code (languages such as C# and VB .NET).…

Lucene is now SearchBlackBox

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://www.lucenedotnet.com/]. Lucene…

World Spam

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]]…

Lucene is now SearchBlackBox

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…

SET vs SELECT

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

.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.…