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Google and Bing Map APIs Compared
At one of the local golf courses I frequent, there is an open grass field next to the course. It is about eight acres in size and mowed regularly. It is permissible to hit golf balls there—you bring and shag our own balls. My golf colleagues and I spend hours there practicing, chatting and in general just wasting time.
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Favorite Programmer Quotes…
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The Low Down Dirty Azure Blues
Remember the SETI screen savers that used to be on everyone's computer? As far I as know, it was the first bona-fide use of "Cloud" computing…albeit an ad hoc cloud. I still think it was a brilliant leveraging of computing power.
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Elegance, thy Name is jQuery
So, I'm browsing though some questions over on the Stack Overflow website and I found a good jQuery question just a few minutes old. Here is a link to it. It was a tough question; I knew that by answering it, I could learn new stuff and reinforce what I already knew: Reading is good, doing is better. Maybe I could help someone in the process too.
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Cool CSS 4 Feature: pointer-events
CSS 4? Really? CSS 3 isn't fully released yet! What on earth is going on here?
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Log4net: Log to a JavaScript Console
While lurking and skulking in the shadows of various technical .Net sites, I've noticed many developers discussing log4net in their blogs and posts; log4net is an extremely popular tool for logging .Net Applications. So, I decided to try it out. After the initial complexities of getting it up and running, I was suitably impressed. Could it be…logging is fun? Well, I don't know if I'd go that far…at least I'd never admit it.