For those who are interested in testing and have some fun with Google’s flavor of cloud computing – Google App Engine, here’s an example tutorial from sitepoint. Haven’t tried this out myself out, but with all the buzz around cloud computing (major players include Amazon and Apple), we might just as well start looking at what Google can offer.
Greedy and Non Greedy Regex Rule and Matches
I was looking into one problem that I had today and it was to do with either using a greedy or non-greedy regex rule to get what I want.
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Why VB.NET Makes Programmer Feels Like A Kid
This is for those who don’t mind having a bit of humor reading technical things such as this one about a programmer’s frustration towards vb.net. It can be a bit sarcastic + informative comparison between languages for those who have use vb.net for a while now as well.
Web Accessibility Testing Tool For Mobile Content Sites
Real web developers take web accessibility seriously. It is part art, techinical, logic and common sense in getting a website accessible for everyone.
Web acessibility for sites developed for mobile phones are accessed differently due to a lot of factors including:
1. Smaller screen size (most obvios reason)
2. Many mobile devices do not support embedded objects or scripts and in many cases it is not possible for users to load plug-ins to add support.
3. Use of tables for layout purposes is considered to be bad practice, particularly for mobile devices.
4. And lots of others.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcut Keys
These Microsoft Visual Studio keyboard shortcut keys can help you increase your productivity by saving you time in performing common and routine task.
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Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB
Amazon Web Services is probably the next big thing and buzzword that you will continue to hear about and talk about if you’re in the web development industry and bulding wide scale web applications. Maybe the well best known secret about AWS was that several high profile facebook application such as iLike and Family Tree are actually using AWS to serve their users in facebook.
We’re not talking a couple of thousand of users hits per day, but the fact that the same amount of count would be in per hour. How on earth is that possible?
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Database Modelling with ModelRight 3
ModelRight 3 radically simplifies the development of your database design in Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL. It will help you to visualize and manage the complexity of your database and create a solid database design. ModelRight 3 can also help you enforce complex constraints, manage database views, validate design decisions, and create complete CREATE and ALTER scripts. It has been developed from the start to support many of your database’s most advanced features, without sacrificing intuitive ease of use. [Read more…]
Find Worst Performing Index in MySQL
For DBAs and developers who loves index, this script can help you look for the least indexed tables in your MySQL databases. It’s a good way of finding out so that you can fine tune every index to make your quries run on the fastest possible ways.
via MySQL Forge
VB.NET and C# Side By Side Comparison and Differences
A simple page seperated into sections laying out the differences(or similarities) between vb.net and C#. This is by far the best comparison that I can find online. If you have any other such references, please share it with me. Thanks.
Download MySQL 2008 Conference Presentation Notes, Slides, Files and Videos
The conference was held in April 2008. Here are the resources for the conference that you won’t want to miss. Whether it’s a pdf, ppt, photo, video, or any kind of notes presented during the conference, you can find it here in the MySQL forge.
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