Working Hard When The Pressure's OFF!

We all work extremely hard when we're under severe deadlines - sometimes, deadlines produce the most creative and best engineered solutions. But what about when you're off-deadline? This article is filled with great tips and concepts to keep you at your most productive whether on a client deadline or on your own time.

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The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming

Great stuff for coders...

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AJAX for .NET Developers (Not Atlas)

This is some pretty good looking stuff (code and plugins with samples) for C# and VB Developers looking to add AJAX to their web applications. Although it looks as if it has become an official "open source" project now.

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Simple Optimization for PHP and MySQL

Here is a list of a few very simple tips for optimizing your php/mysql applications. Keep these in mind while developing to survive the digg-effect.

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Top 20 AJAX Tutorials

List of 20 most helpful AJAX online tutorials.

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Ultimate Web Designers Resource

Has XHTML, PHP, FLASH, AJAX and many more resources. Definitely worth a look at this site.

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ABC Launches Free Online Episode Streaming

Starting today, you can stream episodes of ABC's LOST, Desperate Housewives, Commander in Chief, and Alias for free at ABC.com. The ad-supported episodes will be available for at least a two-month trial period.

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Podcasts Outnumber Radio Stations

FeedBurner said April 17 that it now distributes more podcasts than there are radio stations on the planet. This highlights how podcasts are supplanting over-the-air radio broadcast in many people's lives.

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CNET Launches Video-On-Demand Network (CNET TV)

CNET Networks on Monday said it will launch "CNET TV", a new video on demand network over cable, on digital video recorders made by TiVo and on the Internet as it broadens its reach to viewers.

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Data Structures - AVL Trees

AVL Trees are self balanced binary search trees. Most of the functions for the AVL Tree are the same as the functions for binary search trees. Included is my c++ implementation of the banking assignment we used a link list for. I have converted this program to use an AVL Tree instead of a linked list. This program reads in account data from a file, searches for an account, and outputs all account data to the screen and a file.

AVL Tree Banking Sample

Windows Longhorn aka "Vista" Beta 1

So I finally took a little time and installed Longhorn/Vista onto a virtual machine. There were no problems during setup, in fact I was very impressed with the GUI that accompanied the setup process. However I was disappointed when I actually booted into w
Windows. It basically is an enhanced Windos XP. I thought it had a very "MAC" look to it but other than some nice viual styles I really could not tell a big difference from XP. One thing I do not like is the way it handles network logins. You have to specify your domain in the username box which I feel like is asking a lot from some network users. Also, the tabbed browsing in IE 7 could be implemented better (if you are going to rip it off from Firefox then at least make it work the same). I will do some more playing and maybe I will find some features that change my mind.