SQL Exercises
Free SQL Tutorial with exercises of different complexity to improve your skill in building SQL Data Manipulation Language statements... more »
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Leaving .NET
The .net community operates in a non-collaborative vaccuum. The community is sick, poisoned by the component vendors with closed source... more »
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Is IE9 a modern browser?
Is IE9 a modern browser? NO. IE9 is definitely better than IE8 and a step in the right direction, but I don't believe it to be a truly... more »
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I'd like to buy Vista, please. (cartoon)
Which version of Windows Vista do YOU want today?
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Is Internet Explorer dying...? [Statistics]
About three months ago I was given a task from a customer of us to analyze the Market Shares of Internet Explorer in the hopes of getting... more »
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Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it
Michael Kölling is pretty ticked off right now. What would upset a mild mannered professor at the University of Kent? How about someone... more »
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Programmer Competency Matrix
understand the relevance of the levels of this matrix. Able to recognize and code dynamic programming solutions, good knowledge of
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Stuff I've learned at Microsoft
Coming up on five years (and many teams) at Microsoft, there are a few things I’ve picked up along the way that I definitely didn’t know... more »
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Google Says: Everybody Stop Using IE6
Have you heard the news? Google is urging users of it's popular GMail application to stop using Internet Explorer 6 and rather opt for... more »
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The vi editor if it were designed by Microsoft
The vi editor if it were designed by Microsoft
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8 Million Downloads: A Record? (cartoon)
The uptake on Firefox 3 was certainly swift, but...
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If Everything Was Made by Microsoft
We asked you to show us what the world might look like if it really did run on Microsoft. The winner is below, but first the runners up.
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IE8 — Another IE6 in the Making?
IE6 was a plague upon the Web landscape; we're still dealing with the hacky CSS, HTML and JavaScript that IE6 forced us to write. And... more »
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Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra... more »
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Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness
Microsoft have released a beta of Internet Explorer 9. This much is good, they’re back in the game. The engine supports modern... more »
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Microsoft's Best Buy embarassment
Just how off base was Microsoft in it's attempted indoctrination of Best Buy's already-impressionable employees? I wanted to analyze a... more »
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Why Microsoft hates Google’s Android
Monson-Haefel, who proclaims himself “one of the world’s leading authorities on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)”, served on the JCP Executive... more »
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Microsoft Sabotaging Firefox With Sneaky .NET Updates?
Sabotage may be a strong choice of word, but it immediately came to mind with the news of Microsoft’s latest .NET update.
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Microsoft tries to put the future on hold
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) platform architect Chris Wilson is engaged in an illuminating war of words with Brendan Eich, the... more »
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Signs of a GOOD Manager / Team Lead
I’ll be frank. I’ve worked for some real dumb assholes (in the past) as have many I’m sure. And several of these managers or leads... more »
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Silverlight Losing Another Major Customer
The New York Times is dropping Silverlight for many of the same reasons that Major League Baseball benched Silverlight in April:... more »
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jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia
News today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development... more »
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Google Employee Hacks Windows XP, Shows World How To Do The Same
A couple of weeks ago, a Google employee found a bug in Windows. Last week, he released it to the entire world.
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Microsoft .NET vs JAVA – movie trailer
This is a very funny movie trailer for Microsoft .NET vs Java – Parody of other movie trailers. For IT geeks to watch:
Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome
Chrome Frame is a new browser plug-in developed by Google to give you a Chrome browsing experience inside of Internet Explorer. Let me... more »
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