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Jon's News Wrapup - May 8, 2008 Edition

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Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:12 PM

Why CodingHorror is horribly wrong about Blacklists and Virus Scanners

Jeff and I had an interesting debate on virus scanners a few weeks ago. He posted his take on the conversation yesterday, and (surprise!) we both think we won the argument. I believe the difference of opinion really comes down to a few different assumptions...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:49 PM

We should be virtualizing Applications, not Machines

One of the benefits of my new job at Vertigo Software is that I have more frequent opportunities to talk with my co-worker, Jeff Atwood . If everything goes right, we argue... because unless we agree, neither of us is going to learn anything. Recently...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:54 AM

The value of "good enough" technology

Twitter is Good Enough Twitter drives all my tech-savvy friends crazy. We all agree that the idea - a simple mix of blog, chat, and IM - is a good one. However the site does very little, and what it does it does poorly - slow response, frequent outages...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 1:17 AM

A simple example of a fluent interface

Roiy recently released a really nice c# image enhancement filters library on CodeProject . It includes a nice collection of easy to use image transformation filters - ResizeFilter, RotateFilter, ImageWatermarkFilter, etc. They follow a simple pattern...
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Friday, October 27, 2006 11:06 PM

Can Operating Systems tell if they're running in a Virtual Machine?

Or, do androids know they're dreaming of electric sheep... There was some recent news on Windows Vista EULA restrictions relating to Virtual Machines . Vista Home Editions aren't allowed to be run inside a Virtual Machine, and Vista Ultimate in...
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Friday, April 21, 2006 4:25 PM

Job Application? Name and weblog only, please!

Scott Hanselman wrote about being put off by a resume submission with this sort of e-mail signature: Joe Blow, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCT, MCP. He jokingly (?) proposed that we sign our names with something a bit more useful: Scott Hanselman, 11 Successful...
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Friday, April 14, 2006 8:39 PM

Assault on 13th Labour - Cross Platform Distributed Computing in .NET

BoingBoing linked to a distributed program attack on an encryption puzzle on Perspex City called Assault on 13th Labour . What caught my eye was the fact that it's a .NET console application which runs on Mac and Linux under Mono as well as Windows under...
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Friday, April 14, 2006 7:55 PM

The Death Star - The Ultimate Waterfall Project?

James Higgs asks a great question: Was the Death Star built using waterfall? My favorite part (quoting from the beginning of Star Wars Episode VI): VADER: The Emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation. JERJERROD: But he asks the...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:43 AM

SQLite - ALMOST a great embedded database solution for .NET applications

A comment on my post about the SQL/e announcement said it sounds a lot like SQLite . The subject warrents a separate post. SQLite is a great embedded database. It's free, open source, small, fast, ACID compliant , and frequently updated. SQLite is an...
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