To me, “business is life and life is business.” Business has become the primary vehicle for my growth and contribution. It’s the vehicle that has taught me more about human psychology, myself, connection, people, values, courage, creativity, meaning, self-empowerment and even sexuality than anything else. My parents were the reason I went into business
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If you’re not growing, guess what? You’re dying.
Crystal Reports has been a part of Visual Basic since 1993, and a part of Visual Studio since its first release in 2002. Crystal Reports has been a very successful component of these products. With the release of Visual Studio 2010, SAP and Microsoft have mutually decided to change how we deliver this important component to the .NET developer community going forward
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Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010
One objection that people always raise against Ajax applications concerns browser history. Because an Ajax application updates its content by performing sneaky Ajax postbacks, the browser backwards and forwards buttons don’t work as you would normally expect. In a normal, non-Ajax application, when you click the browser back button, you return to a previous state of the application.
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jQuery, ASP.NET, and Browser History
Today, in continuation of my impromptu celebration of the end of all things, I want to discuss the many different images of the end portrayed in movies. So many times over the years a new movie is released that *gasp* is about the end of the world as we know it. And I gotta tell you, I fall for it ever time. I guess there is just something fascinating about the idea of the destruction of our many accomplishments. Well, fascinating enough to make movies about it. Many, many movies in fact. The first post-apocalyptic movie I remember seeing was The Road Warrior staring a very young Mel Gibson. I know technically Mad Max was first but, lets be honest, that movie was pretty boring. I can hear people disagreeing with me already on that point, but I am gonna stick with it. Anyway, for me the post-apocalypse meant long desert roads, punks with mohawks and football armor, a sawed-off shotgun, and Mel Gibson looking like a freaking badass, even when he gets all messed and limps around with one eye swollen shut. And the car! A modified 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe (an Australian car) complete with a blower and side pipes. My blood starts pumping just thinking about it. I even had a Matchbox car that I used to pretend was Max’s, although it was actually a 1970 Dodge Challenger with a huge and unrealistic blower sprouting from the hood. I can’t tell you how many times I recreated (with Matchbox cars) the many different scenes from The Road Warrior. Yeah, I loved it that much. The next movie that comes to mind dealing with the end of the world is The Terminator, with my all-time favorite action star, Arnold Schwarzenegger. As everyone knows (if you have never seen this movie, or any of the sequels, shame on you) the end of the world in The Terminator is brought about by mankind itself. In what would become a very popular storyline, mankind creates artificial intelligence which then gains sentience and immediately begins the eradication of humanity. I mean, it really is the only logical thing to do. And sentient robots are, of course, completely logical beings. In The Terminator, and all of the sequels (except the last one), my favorite parts were always the flashbacks (or flash-forwards…time travel makes my head hurt) where the fight against the machines were depicted. For years I wished for a movie about the actual war with the machines, not the war between two machines that were sent back in time to the present. Well, I got my wish finally with Terminator Salvation. Unfortunately, as often happens with big budget, over-hyped movies, I thought it kinda sucked. I mean, after watching the trailers I thought the movie was gonna be mostly about John Connor, not some other guy who, surprise surprise, turns out to be a machine himself. If I were to judge on acting skills, I would have said that Christian Bale was the robot. I did think that the CG Arnold that appears near the end of the movie was pretty cool, especially since he seemed so much bigger than Arnold ever was. My favorite part of the entire series, however, was at the end of Terminator 3 when the nuclear war actually happens. In my mind that made all three movies up to that point kind of pointless since the nuclear holocaust they were trying to prevent happened anyway.
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The End Of The World According To Movies
I just reviewed the line – up for UFC 112 on April 10 th . I’m excited again! As usual, the UFC has delivered another great night of stellar athletes to entertain us in the octagon. This event takes place in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This is the first event that will take place out in the open. Will sandstorms or stifling heat interfere with the fighter’s cardio or focus? At first, I thought I’d seen enough UFC with 3 major events already since March 21 st , but then I remembered that Anderson Silva and BJ Penn are showing up on the same card.
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UFC 112 Invincible – Top Dogs vs Underdogs
Semen is a subject that everyone can relate to or at some point has thought about it. This post is all about semen and the source is a wonderful website called onlineschools.org. Perhaps an alternative name for this terrific site could be, “Things they should have taught you in school but didn’t.” With the subtext being, ”learning in an interesting and exciting way.” What I learned about semen after visiting onlineshools.org: 1
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A Semen Education
We are added 2 new community contributions to our Tutorials page. Paulo Morgado posted a great template for CodeIt.Right Code File Header correction action that automatically generates file header compliant with StyleCop Rules
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Community: CodeIt.Right and CruiseControl.NET; File Header Template for StyleCop
Photo by Pablo Abuliak Maria Bernal, award winning photographer from Austin, TX, wanted a brand new brand and a new look, and she wanted her new business cards to be SEXY. She wanted them to speak subtly about lingerie, mystery, outrageous and over-the-top glamor and just stop people in their tracks when she handed them one.
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Maria Bernal Photography | Sexy, Moxie, Foxy Black Foil Stamped, Edge Painted, Letterpress Business Cards
All these thoughts about a Zombie Apocalypse have got me thinking. Of course, the fact that the mini-series The Stand was on the other day might also have something to do with it. Plus I watched a teaser trailer for the up and coming Fallout game New Vegas. Ah, the end of the world. There’s nothing better to dedicate my thoughts to on a lazy day off than the end of the world.
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Top 10 Things You Would Need To Survive The Post Apocalypse
At the last MIX conference, Netflix announced that they are exposing their catalog of movie information using the OData protocol. This is great news! This means that you can take advantage of all of the advanced OData querying features against a live database of Netflix movies
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Netflix, jQuery, JSONP, and OData
“And that’s the way it is.” Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite closed every nightly broadcast with that signature phrase, a signal to his viewers of not simply the conclusion of his broadcast but the authenticity of what they had just experienced. The familiar phrase, repeated every weeknight, threw a security blanket around his viewers. His mantra — decisive on principle and incisive on purpose — made his audience feel special, that they had been part of something tailored specifically for them
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Rally Your Audience with a Signature Close
Webmaster level: All There’s a lot of content on the Internet these days . At some point, something may turn up online that you would rather not have out there—anything from an inflammatory blog post you regret publishing, to confidential data that accidentally got exposed. In most cases, deleting or restricting access to this content will cause it to naturally drop out of search results after a while.
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URL removal explained, Part I: URLs & directories
Windows Server Hosting Service Windows server hosting services are there to meet the requirements of Windows web developers who create all of their websites using classic ASP and ASP.NET as websites developed using either scripting framework will only function correctly in Windows web hosting environments. Windows VPS servers and Windows dedicated servers are going to set
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Windows Server Hosting Service
The goal of this blog entry is to explore the easiest way of inserting a new record into a database using jQuery and .NET. I’m going to explore two approaches: using Generic Handlers and using a WCF service (In a future blog entry I’ll take a look at OData and WCF Data Services)
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Using jQuery to Insert a New Database Record
It looks like I have a set of posts on ViewModel, aka MVVM, that have organically emerged into a series or story of sorts. Recently, I blogged about The Case for ViewModel , and another on View/ViewModel Association using Convention and Configuration , and a long while back now, I posted an Introduction to the ViewModel Pattern as I was myself picking up this pattern, which has since become the natural way for me to program client applications
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View/ViewModel Interaction – Bindings, Commands and Triggers
There’s a pivotal scene in University of Death where the muso-technology geek at the heart of the story struggles to persuade the venal record industry boss to buy-in to a groundbreaking new scheme that will change the industry forever. To accomplish this, the geek plays the boss a new composition, which has been engineered to embody the latter’s favourite musical tropes — to push his buttons, if you will
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University of Death by Sean McManus: A Review
At MIX10, I presented the Developing with WCF RIA Services Quickly and Effectively talk. For the demos I used a BookClub application – the scenario is a team application for team members to use to share books and browse/search/request shared books. The following are the concepts that the demos and code cover: [ Full post continued here..
fred-wilson : The High Road – Broken Bells – Broken Bells Broken Bells, the collaboration between James Mercer and Danger Mouse, is the artist of the weekend on fredwilson.fm Fred turned me on to this new record. And I’m happy that he did.
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The High Road – Broken Bells – Broken…
Named & optional parameters are a new C# language feature coming up with .NET FX 4.0 and guess what… it’s in Silverlight 4 as well! Optional parameters will come very useful when defining complex APIs where you would usually have to provide several Read More……( read more )
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Named & optional parameters in Silverlight 4
After a quiet holiday season, the PEAR community has started rumbling again. Digg gave PEAR a plug , new versions of Mail , Services_Facebook , System_Daemon , and html_Template_IT were released, the number of bugs reported dropped to less than one per package for a brief time, and two promising new proposals in PEPr arrived.
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PEAR in March 2010 – Official Blog of the PEAR Group/PEAR President