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A decade of helpful technical content

This is an archive of the posts published to LessThanDot from 2008 to 2018, over a decade of useful content. While we're no longer adding new content, we still receive a lot of visitors and wanted to make sure the content didn't disappear forever.

Another great Firefox 3 extension

If ever you need a reason to switch to Firefox, it would be the great extensions that it has. I stumbled across this one just today. It is called Googlepreview. And this is what happens if you search for Lessthandot in google. Look at the preview thumbnail and also look at the page rank it provides.

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Flash Player 10 has been released

Flash Player 10 has been released, here are the new or enhanced features 3D effects New Create more intuitive, engaging interfaces using built-in support for 3D effects. Get started quickly without being a 3D master by designing in 2D and easily transforming and animating in 3D. Fast, extremely lightweight, and simple-to-use APIs, along with 3D tools in Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional software, make motion that was previously accessible only to expert users via ActionScript® language or custom third-party libraries available to everyone.

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The law of demeter

Introduction If you have been using an OO language to program with then you should have heard of the Law of Demeter. If you haven’t then you should read some of the articles I collected on Google. Wikipedia The Paperboy, The Wallet, and The Law Of Demeter by David Bock Introducing Demeter and its Laws Entities and the Law of Demeter by Jimmy Bogard Definition It is actually very simple to me.

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OpenOffice 3.0 is now available

OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available, but because of extreme demand you will see this message Apologies – our website is struggling to cope with the unprecedented demand for the new release 3.0 of OpenOffice.org. The technical teams are trying to come up with a solution. Thank you for your patience. So what is new? I would like to know also but when visiting this link http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/ I am greeted with this

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Microsoft releases Silverlight 2 announces development capabilities with Eclipse

Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences. Microsoft also announced further support of open source communities by funding advanced Silverlight development capabilities with the Eclipse Foundation’s integrated development environment (IDE) and by providing new controls to developers with the Silverlight Control Pack (SCP) under the Microsoft Permissive License.

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An interview with Roy Osherove author of "The Art of Unit Testing"

Today I will be having an interview with Roy Osherove about his upcoming book “The Art of Unit Testing“. The book concentrates on unit testing for the .Net developer. And it covers these subjects (as taken from the manning website). Introduction to unit testing and the basics of writing real-world unit tests with NUnit Best practices for writing maintainable, trustworthy, readable tests Mock Objects and integration testing in-depth

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Will Silverlight 2 Be RTM Tomorrow?

Here is what the Microsoft Announces Conference Call With Scott Guthrie contains .NET Developer Division corporate vice president will make a significant announcement about Microsoft Silverlight. Microsoft Corp. will hold a teleconference with Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft. Guthrie will make a significant announcement related to Microsoft Silverlight. A recording of the call and additional information will be available for 30 days on the Microsoft Silverlight PressPass Web site: http://www.

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FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008 Technical Article

Paul Randal has written a very detailed technical article about FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008. This white paper describes the FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008, which allows storage of and efficient access to BLOB data using a combination of SQL Server 2008 and the NTFS file system. It covers choices for BLOB storage, configuring Windows and SQL Server for using FILESTREAM data, considerations for combining FILESTREAM with other features, and implementation details such as partitioning and performance.

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The Manga Guide to Databases

The Manga Guide to Databases, no really!!! Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you. Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod’s humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers!

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Google Interview Questions

Google Interview Questions So the economy is really bad and your job might be on the line, Google is always looking for new talent. Here are 2 questions that they asked a friend of mine. What would you answer? _1. You have been shrunk down to the size of a nickel and tossed into a blender. You are told that the blender blades will start in 60 seconds.What would you do to save your life?

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