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"Nietzsche would have been right at home on an ugly team: what does not kill the ugly team makes the ugly team stronger." "Real heroes are ugly. [...] In spite of their failings, they find ways to achieve, betting everything on passion, persistence, and imagination. [...] For these reasons, when things get tough, it's the ugly teams that win. People from ugly teams expect things to go wrong and show up anyway. They conquer self-doubt, make friendships under fire, and find magic in ideas that others abandon."

Excerpt: "Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. As more data is gathered data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool to transform this data into information. It is commonly used in a wide range of profiling practices, such as marketing, surveillance, fraud detection and scientific discovery."

From time to time you'll probably want to send a website visitor who tries to access a page that has moved, been deleted, etc to a brand spanking new page of which quite possibly will have the content they were looking for. In this article I'll introduce you to the 301 re-direct, show you how to create one, and you'll see why sometimes just depending on the 404 page isn't practical. I'll also show you various methods to create one by using PHP, ASP, and HTML.

"It is still a good idea to run Firefox and NoScript to help protect yourself from all kinds of Javascript attacks." Not more of this?!

Ever wanted to display the number of posts your blog has achieved for your blog readers or perhaps just for yourself? Or, what about the number of posts in a specific category? If so, I'll show you a quick and easy way to do just that, and we'll style up the output with a bit of CSS Level 2.1 the standard way.

A series of samples including demonstrations of all the functions that are new in Windows 7 and exposed via the API, including: * building a jump list with custom categories and custom tasks, * setting an overlay icon and progress bar * creating and handling events from Thumbnail Toolbar buttons * customizing taskbar thumbnails

Interesting clippings from the slides: "What can we do with it? * Write applications. Melodie uses lots of Smalltalk, first pure-Smalltalk app committed to svn in January. * Write scripts. Corner activation and gesture app uses Smalltalk for scripting. * Modify existing apps... " "We can inspect classes in a code browser, see method names, and write replacements in any running application. In a perfect Free Software system, any user can make any changes. "

My comment above might imply that Smalltalk is not modern. The truth is far from it, as Smalltalk is still pushing the boundaries of technology and user interfaces, from Croquet and Qwaq, to Alice, Sophie, Scratch and Etoys.

(I fixed Friday's broken link to the PDF.) From what I read so far, this seems to be another attempt at a fully introspecitve integrated and customisable personal computer with a graphical desktop. In other words, it is Dynabook Smalltalk and Lisp workstations all over again, but quite likely with some interesting modern twists.

This post really digs into Get-TfsItemHistory ...

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This is a living breathing ARM port contributed by John McIntosh in 2008 and forward. I wonder if there are any Squeak apps in the iTunes App Store yet.

It wasn't that long ago when I was searching for a couple of good code-snippet applications to store bits of source code. Well, I found a couple and published 2 Really Useful Code Snippet Applications. Now, I've found a few more worth noting, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, but they all serve their purpose nicely.

Things we aren't told about life. As long as we have our target towards life, we will get the success no matter what.

Window.TaskbarItemInfo lets you create custom buttons on the Windows 7 thumbnail window ...

A little bit of the "what's new" in System.Speech 4.0

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has links to useful tutorial and reference guide