Kartal Guner

Anyone use Cogentco

2004-02-08T14:11:00Z

We are in the process of bringing our natural language technologies to the online search market. Well as you can assume crawling the web for billions of pages requires HUGE bandwith. Pricing out leased line costs I find cogent prices extremely attractive. Do you always get what you paid for? I was hoping if anyone who has dealt with or use this company can offer some insight. We will be relocating to New York City next month and this is one of the areas they serve.

100 mb/s $1,000 a month

1000 mb/s $10,000 a month

and heres a little teaser of a comparison to google:

Too much noise?

2003-12-16T07:46:00Z

I have seen a few people complaining about all the noise on ASP.NET Weblogs. What if Scott introduced a blog voting system? Registered users would be able to vote on the value/relevancy of a blog post. Users would be able to set a threshold, and posts scoring below it would not be displayed in the aggregate view for that user. We could go a step further and the vote can be applied to the user itself rather than individual posts. This would encourage people to post only what they felt to be relevant/useful. Please leave comments and let me know what you think?

Kartal

Free Microsoft Press Book

2003-10-24T20:01:00Z

Get a free Microsoft Press Book Here

You will need to register with Microsoft Executive Circle if you have not already

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GPL Questions

2003-10-24T17:24:00Z

Roy Osherove gives us the very nice Regulator.

In this he is using a GPL'd SharpDevelop control and non GPL ComponentOne.

This would make The Regulator fall under the license of GPL. Now wouldn't adding the ComponentOne controls require that too to be GPL, which Roy does not have the right to give? This may not be the case. I am just trying to understand how this works.

Suggestion for .Text

2003-10-24T15:39:00Z

It would be nice if .Text would show the number of comments for a post on the main aggregate page. That way we don't have to click to see if anyone left any comments.

It could look like the following:

posted @ 10/24/2003 4:21 PM by Kartal Guner (2 Comments)

Smart Client Readiness Program for ISVs

2003-10-22T19:22:00Z

Has anyone received their kits for this? I signed up a while ago from the microsft partners website, but am still waiting.

Kartal

Visual Basic Resource Kit Download Available is for C# Developers too!

2003-10-02T15:56:00Z

I originally skipped over this before because it said Visual Basic. But there are goodies in here for C# developers too. Check it out:

this CD contains a powerful collection of free, fully functional Microsoft .NET controls, including:

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise
A comprehensive collection of more than 30 high-quality WinForms and ASP.NET Web controls including grid components, reporting components, charting components, data components, user-interface components, and e-commerce components.
Dundas Chart For Windows Forms, Professional Edition
Developed for rich-client .NET applications, this fully-managed charting control gives you all the features of a premium charting control. This functionality combined with incredible design-time support allows for the fast and easy creation of sensational looking charts that have the exact look and feel that you require.
Infragistics UltraWebNavigator and UltraWinTree Controls
UltraWinTree delivers an advanced .NET tree control that surpasses the look and functionality of the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET TreeView control. UltraWebNavigator is the first tool to provide a simple, easy-to-use designer to create menu and tree hierarchies, making it possible for Web masters and non-programmers to build eye-popping navigation systems and outlines visually, without writing code.
Sax Software Corp
Sax.net Communications makes it easy to add scalable serial communications to all your .NET applications.

I'm downloading it now.

[Duncan Mackenzie]

Visual Basic Resource Kit Download Available

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/

Kartal

Mono

2003-10-02T14:47:00Z

Mono .28 is released. Hats off and thanks to the mono team. They have really come a long way.

Kartal

Don't you love free books?

2003-10-01T13:26:00Z

I was out of the office yesterday. Today I find a copy of Programming Microsoft Windows with C# by Charles Petzold sitting on my desk.

Thanks Microsoft.

Kartal

Code Library for .NET

2003-09-30T15:23:00Z

If you are looking for a way to manage your sample code, snippets, articles, etc. get Code Library. It is available in SQL Server and access versions. Very high quality software and FREE. You can even drag links to files right into the files box and it will download it and store it in the database. Very cool!

Kartal

What's wrong with search engines?

2003-09-29T10:37:00Z

The search engine field seems to be heating up. There has recently been lots of news of mergers and acquisitions in the search market. Microsoft also announced recently that they will be “investing heavily“ in search. Google was a great step forward, but we need more. What can be done?

What are the colors of a zebra?

Keyword based search engines will bring you pages with the words colors and zebra.

A zebra has two colors would rank higher than A zebra is black and white.

But you're not really looking for the word colors. You want the actual colors.

Here is another example:

What is the length of the Golden Gate Bridge?

Again, you are not looking for the word length. What you want is the phrase Golden Gate Bridge and a number with a length indicator such as:

The Golden Gate Bridge is 9266 feet.

The 2824 meter Golden Gate Bridge ...

Now, these are simple examples, but it goes to show you how natural language techniques can easily enhance search engine results.

Kartal

My First Post

2003-09-29T04:24:00Z

First, I'd like to thank Scott for setting me up with this blog. So far I'm really impressed with the quality of .Text.

My name is Kartal Guner. I'm a developer for AnswerChase. We specialize in natural language technologies. Our focus right now is on question/answer systems and news alerting. My current project is eMeerkat. I will be discussing the current state of search technologies and development using C# and asp.NET.

Kartal