In my experience working with programmers in both categories, those who have a background of knowledge of the lower level programming languages always seem to be quicker at solving more complicated problems. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule but I would say 98% of the time this is true. [^]

"The goal of the joint work, which will include contributions from Microsoft engineers, is to make it easier to use Java to write applications that take full advantage of the look and feel of Windows" :omg: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9898168-7.html[^]

Search e.g. for Don Clugston's successful (412,246 views on CP) FastDelegate[^] article.

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Also, if you do a search on an article's title, no CP results turn up. I mirrored a recent article I wrote on my website. Google nicely throws up my website URL for the article, but doesn't show the CP URL. My website gets less traffic than a Jewish cartoon site would in Saudi Arabia. So this is definitely very surprising.

That's a consequence of the CP upgrade disaster. CP articles 'disappeared' from Google due to the link changes. A site like CP lives from incoming traffic. Being invisible on Google is a severe but seemingly ignored problem for the whole CP site. CP is big enough to be noticed by Google when someone form CP approaches them with the problem. Merely, CP has to talk to Google.

"Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba. Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th 2007 .... " http://www.linux.com/feed/123633[^]

code-frog wrote:

1. Am I the only one who thinks Yahoo Webmail is great?

No

code-frog wrote:

2. If you think there's a better interface who has it?

:~

code-frog wrote:

If you think there's a better service (notice I'm not saying interface but mail service) who has it?

Well, Google offers free POP access, Yahoo not.

code-frog wrote:

4. Are you willing to pay for a premium web based mail service and if so which one would you choose?

I'd probably pay to use my own domain instead of ...@gmail.com

martin_hughes wrote:

Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008[^] I was expecting great things from this book, but after 3 days with it I'm highly disappointed. Given the "Pro" in the title, I was expecting very in-depth coverage of just about every feature of LINQ with extensive code examples.

'Pro' is Latin and means something like 'for'. 'Pro LINQ' may be translated as 'Towards LINQ'.

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Or maybe some at Google decided to gradually remove all MFC search results from such searches

Tried your own articles?

Use Firefox 3 Beta 1 and everything is faster, even (current and future) CP forums. Prefer Portable Firefox 3 Beta 1[^] because: "All you have to do is download, extract/install it, and you’ll be playing with Firefox 3 Beta 1. You also don’t have to worry about messing up your existing Firefox profile since it is all self-contained in the single Portable Firefox folder." One drawback so far: existing FF bookmarks cannot be imported (at least not the thousands I have).

CP violated one of the fundamental rules of the Web ("Never change your links!"). Now it gets punished: Google doesn't find CP articles any more, at least temporarily. Try Maunder Grid Control[^]

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This might interest some of you: Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2008[^]

VA_ wrote:

How?

The interface provides a very 'desktop-like' experience. Google tries to move in the same direction with the new interface. OTOH, I dislike GMail's 'threaded' mail organization which cannot be turned off. Yahoo's disadvantage is the non-free Pop access.

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

Now, can anyone recommend a good MFC reference?

STL and MFC are completely unrelated. Not a reference (see MSDN for a reference) but an MFC introduction: Jeff Prosise: Programming Windows With MFC[^]

Yahoo Mail currently is one of the best web mails. IMO, it's better than GMail.

Parting words for dear friends[^]

Brady Kelly wrote:

Nearly everywhere I've worked, and in nearly every workplace I've visited, a fair number of people have their monitors on boxes, books, or whatever raises it enough off the desk to be properly eye level.

Yes, some people do it but it's unhealthy and causes pain in neck and shoulders. You become accustomed to looking 'down' to the monitor within a few hours and avoid these problems.

Brady Kelly wrote:

Yeah, you're not alone. My right hand is too heavy.

The bad news is: it won't go away. :(

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

For the past few days, my neck and shoulders have been hurting quite a bit. I couldn't think of what I'd done to them, and then this afternoon it hit me: My headphones are too heavy!

Really? I'd rather say: Welcome to the RSI club!

CataclysmicQuantums wrote:

t makes sense, but... http://www.codeproject.co.uk/ That certainly isn't a European version of codeproject.

Some people exploit those possible variants and esp. typos in domain names to make money. Compare e.g. http://www.php.net/[^] http://www.php.org/[^] or http://www.cafeaulait.org[^]/ http://www.cafeaulait.com/[^]