"New to SEO? Need to polish up your knowledge? The Beginner's Guide to SEO has been read over 1 million times and provides comprehensive information you need to get on the road to professional quality SEO."
"Microsoft SQL Server performs dynamic memory management based on the memory requirements of the current load and activities on the system. On a Windows Server 2003 or a Windows XP or later version system, SQL Server can use the memory notification mechanisms that are provided by the QueryMemoryResourceNotification Windows API. On a Microsoft Windows 2000 Server-based system, SQL Server periodically calculates the free physical memory on the system by using the native Windows API. Based on this information from the QueryMemoryResourceNotification Windows API or from the memory calculation, SQL Server responds to the current memory situation on a specific system. This provides the following benefits:"
"Recently I encountered a case when I knew much more about the data than the optimizer. Originally the performance was horrible, this is why I had to have a look at the query in the first place. When I was able to share my knowledge with the optimizer, it produced a better plan, and the query ran dramatically faster."
"To say I like SP_WhoIsActive is an understatement. This is probably the most useful and effective stored procedure I've ever encountered for activity monitoring. The purpose of the SP_WhoIsActive stored procedure is to give DBAs and developers as much performance and workload data about SQL Server's internal workings as possible, while retaining both flexibility and security. It was written by Boston-area consultant and writer Adam Machanic, who is also a long-time SQL Server MVP, a founder of SQLBlog.com, and one of the most elite individuals who are qualified to teach the Microsoft Certified Master classes."
"As part of my talk at the 2009 US PASS Summit here in Seattle called Inside SQL Server Wait Types, I'm creating this blog post as a reference point that can be used to find out information about wait types in SQL Server 2005 and 2008. My hope is that if you have a question about a wait type you encounter with SQL Server 2005, 2008, or beyond, you will use this blog post as the starting point. This blog post should also be used as an enhancement to what you can find at the following SQL Server Books Online topic:"
"UPDATE: I've updated the msysgit installation screens so they are more current. Git-1.7.2.3 is the latest one as of this update. The subsequent screens show Git-1.6.3. I assure you that all of the commands in the first three parts of this series will work on 1.6.3."
"WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. Currently certain functionality used in Web sites is not available to some users with disabilities, especially people who rely on screen readers and people who cannot use a mouse. WAI-ARIA addresses these accessibility challenges, for example, by defining new ways for functionality to be provided to assistive technology. With WAI-ARIA, developers can make advanced Web applications accessible and usable to people with disabilities."
"Evently is a jQuery plugin designed to take the repetition out of writing event-based applications. This page collects documentation and tutorials for using Evently, both inside and outside of CouchApps."
"jQuery 1.6 is now live and available for consumption! We're quite proud of this release, it includes a major rewrite of the Attribute module and a number of performance improvements."
" Django may be built for the Web, but CouchDB is built of the Web. I've never seen software that so completely embraces the philosophies behind HTTP. CouchDB makes Django look old-school in the same way that Django makes ASP look outdated.
-Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django developer
CouchDB's design borrows heavily from web architecture and the concepts of resources, methods, and representations. It augments this with powerful ways to query, map, combine, and filter your data. Add fault tolerance, extreme scalability, and incremental replication, and CouchDB defines a sweet spot for document databases. "
" HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing. Supporting tens of thousands of connections is clearly realistic with todays hardware. Its mode of operation makes its integration into existing architectures very easy and riskless, while still offering the possibility not to expose fragile web servers to the Net, such as below :"
"I was writing a web application and wanted to find a regular expression to validate user's e-mail addresses, but when I searched for one I found dozens of slightly different variations of the same expression. Almost all of the posts were followed by comments describing examples of false-positives or false-negatives. But dispite all the criticism, I couldn't find a definitive "best" expression. So, I setup arrays of some of the most promising ones as well as a (hopefully) complete sampling of valid and invalid addresses. I think that it's better to accept a few invalid addresses than reject any valid ones, so I'm shooting for 0 false-positives and as few false-negatives as possible."
"SQL Server 2008 introduces two tracking features that enable applications to determine the DML changes (insert, update, and delete operations) that were made to user tables in a database. Before these features were available, custom tracking mechanisms had to be implemented in applications. These custom mechanisms often required schema changes to the tracked table or the use of triggers. Neither change data capture nor change tracking requires any schema changes at the source or the use of triggers."
" Fred George discusses Programmer Anarchy, a development process where programmers are not just empowered to act but the driving force behind a product, leading to substantial increase in results. "
