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Steve Smith | Steve Smith's Blog | 08 Feb 2010 16:53
Steve Smith writes "....In their book, Inbound Marketing (review), authors Shah and Halligan describe some key traits of effective calls to action. The four important qualities of killer calls-to-action are that they be Valuable, Easy-to-Use, Prominent, and..."
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PAVE the Way to Effective Calls to Action
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Scott Allen | K. Scott Allen | 08 Feb 2010 14:12
Scott Allen writes "....Here are some events I’ll be speaking at over the next couple months: DevTeach Toronto / Mississauga March 8-12. DevTeach stands for Developers Teaching. It’s a conference done by developers for developers. This annual event offers the elements..."
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Upcoming Events
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 08 Feb 2010 10:00
Oren Eini writes "....I got several requests for this, so I am making Uber Prof itself available for purchasing. What is Uber Prof? It is a short hand way of saying: All the OR/M profilers that we make. An Uber Prof license gives you the ability to use:..."
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Say hello to Uber Prof
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Scott Guthrie | ScottGu's Blog | 08 Feb 2010 05:54
Scott Guthrie writes "....[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This is the fifteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s..."
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Built-in Charting Controls (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)
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Jeffrey Palermo | Jeffrey Palermo (.com) | 08 Feb 2010 02:28
Jeffrey Palermo writes "....Back in 2005, I purchased an mVox 100 (mv100). This device worked great on Windows XP, and I used it in various VOIP application. Really great USB speakerphone. It’s tiny, also, and I kept it tucked in my back for the last 5 years...."
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Windows 7 brings new life to devices that don’t have Vista drivers
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 07 Feb 2010 10:00
Oren Eini writes "....There are some things that I just don’t understand, and the decision to name two apparently different technologies working in the same area using those two names is one of them. The image on the right is from In Search Of Stupidity, an excellent..."
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A marketing mistake: WCF Data Services & WCF RIA Services
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Rob Conery | Rob Conery's Blog | 06 Feb 2010 23:05
Rob Conery writes "....In my last post I took a look at possible approaches to using NoSQL and Reporting, and many people wanted to see what this might look like in practice. In part one, below, I’ll show you ways to work with a NoSQL solution (in this case DB4O) in ways..."
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NoSQL – A Practical Approach, Part 1
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 06 Feb 2010 10:00
Oren Eini writes "....I just finished drawing the following: It makes me feel dirty inside, to do so. Mostly because I really don’t like or believe in building applications in this manner anymore. I would really like to be able to do this: Unfortunately, I am..."
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Traditional architecture makes me flinch
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen | 06 Feb 2010 01:47
Scott Hanselman writes "....My one-hundred-and-ninety-ninth podcast is up. I chat with Jeremy Zawodny, a developer at Craigslist on how the system is put together. How many servers do they have? How does it all fit together and what are the major technology problems they have..."
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Hanselminutes Podcast 199 - How Craigslist Works - with Jeremy Zawodny
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 05 Feb 2010 10:00
Oren Eini writes "....I get a lot of requests for what I term, the regex problem. Why the regex problem? Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I’ll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. — Jamie Zawinski in comp.lang.emacs. A..."
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If you are way off in the deep end, there is only so much that tooling can do for you
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