Netflix to Lay Off 50. Blames Silverlight.
posted by bartczernicki(503) 3 years, 5 months ago 0
The linked CNN version of the article is a copy from another website. As mentioned, the article heading is poor and misrepresents the issue.
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Why Windows 7 Will Save Microsoft
posted by bartczernicki(503) 3 years, 4 months ago 0
This is why I think Vista SP 2 err...Windows 7 should be free for anyone who bought Vista. Its ridiculous that if you bought Vista for over a hundred dollars you need to go through an expensive upgrade plan to Windows 7. Its nice they cleaned up a lot of the features, but its a SP. I acknowledge the fact that Microsoft NEEDS to make this a seperate release and get away from Vista perceptions, but they could cut the users some slack and make the upgrade free for Vista customers. Like the article mentions a lot of the new features are UI based. For developers there isn't really any need to go to Windows 7 (same IIS 7, DirectX 11 (multithreading) will be Vista compatible, same Gadgets etc)..at least in Vista there was a reason for me to upgrade as a developer. Bart Czernicki http://www.silverlighthack.com
SQL SERVER - Rules for Optimizining Any Query - Best Practices
SqlAuthority is a nice blog for beginner/intermediate info on SQL. There isn't much original content there. Specifically to this article, I agree with the post above...these "rules" really depend on the type of databases you create and maintain. Databases with complex business process, read-only databases, high write/read databases, 64/32 bit and enterprise/standard versions, sql that is multi platform (Oracle, SQL), data warehouses etc all has different best practicses and rules. Saying that you need to put an clustered index on a table is a beginner tip. Explaining why you shoul do it with specific examples on how this effects storage, wide tables, nonclustered indexes, seperating in different storage groups would be a nice advanced tip.
Whitehouse.gov: an ASP.NET site
The article focuses a little too much on optimization and makes it sound like if a site is not 100% optimized its not good. Optimization is important, but also to a point. Furthermore, all of these optimization tricks also require additional coding and require additional testing. When I start an ASP.NET project, I focus on content not trying to implement every single optimization trick.
Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu
posted by bartczernicki(503) 3 years, 2 months ago 0
I just kicked this with 4 kicks. Over under how many Kicks is this going to get? 35?