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Understanding the StackOverflow Database Schema - SQLServerPedia

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Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:01:58 PM GMT Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:00:06 PM GMT
See Also: Main Page - Business Intelligence - Data Mining the StackOverflow Database Now for some schema notes, and I'm going to go out of alphabetical order because everything links back to the Users table. I'm only going to cover the fields that aren't immediately obvious: Contents * 1 Users Table * 2 Posts Table * 3 Comments Table * 4 Badges Table * 5 Votes Table * 6 Related Articles About the StackOverflow Database Users Table * Id - primary key, identity field from the original S... (more)
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How to de-salinate seawater when stranded on a deserted island

published 1052 days, 3 hours, 33 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 1055 days, 7 hours, 53 minutes ago
Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:01:58 PM GMT Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:42:28 PM GMT
Your items: You have only the nylon sailcloth and what you were wearing when you washed ashore: a dark, waterproof windbreaker; a T-shirt; and shorts, in which you find your Swiss Army knife (or Leatherman tool) and a pack of waterproof matches. If it provides additional motivation, feel free to be cast away with the fantasy celebrity of your choice--but this person is still counting on you to provide drinkable water. And if you're looking for extra points here, forget the pack of matches. Good luck,... (more)
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Homemade Sunscreen

published 1052 days, 3 hours, 33 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 1055 days, 7 hours, 55 minutes ago
Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:01:58 PM GMT Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:39:59 PM GMT
Make your own sunscreen with this easy recipe. Sunscreen is intended to shield your skin from harmful UVA and UVB rays. These can cause premature aging, and more tragically, skin cancer. But commercial suncreens often involve more nasty chemicals than necessary. By making your own sunscreen, you control exactly what goes in! (more)
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tags: health
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Prism Silverlight - 10 Things to Know

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Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:01:58 PM GMT Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:19:13 PM GMT
Downloading Prism10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism July 1st, 2009 Prism is one of the hottest topics in Silverlight.  Here, I provide the top 10 things that I think every developer should know about Prism. For a great write-up on Prism, I recommend: Shawn Wildermuth’s MSDN article. 1. Prism is a collection of libraries for implementing best-practices in Silverlight Now, Prism actually contains more than just the libraries (it also has source code, examples, quickstarts and excellent docum... (more)
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tags: programming, Silverlight, web design
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Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine

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Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:01:58 PM GMT Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:03:42 PM GMT
When people talk about image optimization, they consider only the limited parameters offered by popular image editors, like the “Quality” slider, the number of colors in the palette, dithering and so on. Also, a few utilities, such as OptiPNG and jpegtran, manage to squeeze extra bytes out of image files. All of these are pretty well-known tools that provide Web developers and designers with straightforward techniques of image optimization. In this article, we’ll show you a different approach to image... (more)
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Quite the Ketch | MadMariner.com

published 1053 days, 5 hours, 12 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 1055 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes ago
Saturday, July 04, 2009 5:23:22 PM GMT Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:47:15 PM GMT
Leave it to the former head of Sun Microsystems to commission a yacht where the lighting and other systems are operated through touchpad screens much like that of the iPhone. This is Ethereal, the 190-foot ketch commissioned by Bill and Shannon Joy from Royal Huisman, which recently completed her maiden voyage from Holland to the Canary Islands and back. While touchpad controls are nothing new, some of the other technologies employed onboard certainly make her, in Bill's words, "a floating lab." The J... (more)
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Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon - Preview and Details

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Saturday, July 04, 2009 5:23:22 PM GMT Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:43:42 PM GMT
Facebook’s iPhone application is one of the most popular iPhone apps overall - nearly 25% of all iPhone owners use it according to Joe Hewitt, lead engineer for Facebook’s iPhone application. Today, Hewitt shared some more details on the upcoming version 3.0 of the Facebook iPhone app. What will be coming in the new version? 1. The “new” News Feed Like Events (including the ability to RSVP) Notes Pages Create new photo albums Upload photos to any album Zoom into photo... (more)
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tags: Facebook, iPhone
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Bing Adds Twitter Posts to Search Results - Business Center - PC World

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Saturday, July 04, 2009 5:23:22 PM GMT Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:41:07 PM GMT
Microsoft on Wednesday started adding some Twitter posts into Bing search results, gaining a bit of a leg up on competitors even though the capability is limited. For now, Microsoft is indexing a "few thousand people, based primarily on their follower count and volume of tweets," wrote Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft's Silicon Valley Search Technology Center, on a company blog. The company did not appear to work directly with Twitter to deliver the capability. "We think this is an inte... (more)
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tags: Bing, search, Twitter
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Best Practices For Effective Design Of "About us"-Pages | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:27:44 PM GMT Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:47:11 PM GMT
The “about us”-page is one of the most overlooked pages in development and one of the highest ranked pages on many websites. In a world that’s becoming increasingly connected through the Web, it’s important that you engage your audience in a personal and friendly way, otherwise you risk just being another faceless web designer among a sea of websites. We had to go through hundreds of sites to come up with the following list. It seems most designers and developers run out of steam by the time they got ... (more)
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tags: web design
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10 Things Every Web Designer Just Starting Out Should Know

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:27:44 PM GMT Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:18:54 PM GMT
10 Things Every Web Designer Just Starting Out Should Know July 1st, 2009 by John Urban There are many aspects of creating a website design. Web designers often have to play multiple roles and be very knowledgeable about building effective and usable site layouts. Most of the lessons you’ll learn in web design comes from work experience; learning is an iterative process and there is no better way to gain knowledge than to make mistakes (and then and lea... (more)
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Photo and original diagram of the world's first ethernet cable | Boing Boing Gadgets

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:27:44 PM GMT Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:08:27 PM GMT
POSTED BY Lisa Katayama AT 10:54 AM Tuesday June 30, 2009 Cables • Research Bob Metcalfe • ethernet • Parc • printers • themes • XeroxPhoto and original diagram of the world's first ethernet cable Behind an ordinary door in a nondescript room hosting several printers and copiers at PARC is the world's first Ethernet cable. In 1973, Bob Metcalfe sent an internal memo to his colleagues at Xerox proposing a local system of interacting workstations, files, and printers. The devices would a... (more)
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tags: ethernet, history
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Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework - Home

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:27:44 PM GMT Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:01:23 PM GMT
The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access some new Windows 7 features (and some existing features of older versions of Windows operating system) from managed code. These Windows features are not available to developers today in the .NET Framework. (more)
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tags: .NET, programming, Windows
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Shipping Container Dormitory

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:27:44 PM GMT Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:57:39 PM GMT
Keetwonen, 1000 shipping containers from China modified into student housing in Amsterdam, is the largest shipping container housing development in the world.  It has been praised for its innovation, cost effectiveness and design. For students, living in modified shipping containers is actually better than it sounds on paper.  Each unit addresses many of the common concerns for students living in student housing such as privacy and cleanliness, while retaining the social aspects of living in dorms.  Eac... (more)
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tags: housing, shipping container
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WebContent.gov: Better Websites. Better Government.

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:27:44 PM GMT Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:44:08 PM GMT
Social Media and Web 2.0 are umbrella terms that define the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and content creation. Social media use the "wisdom of crowds" to connect information in a collaborative manner online. Through social media, individuals or collaborations of individuals create web content, organize content, edit or comment on content, combine content, and share content. Social media and Web 2.0 use uses many technologies and forms, including RSS and other syndicat... (more)
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DHS | Social Media at the Department of Homeland Security

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:27:44 PM GMT Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:42:06 PM GMT
The Department of Homeland Security is using "Web 2.0," social media technologies and Web sites to provide you with information in more places and more ways. Below is the list of tools and sites that the Department and our components use to provide up-to-date information, straight from the source. If a site is not on this list, it is not presently being used by the Department of Homeland Security. If you think something is missing, or if you have any questions, contact us. (more)
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tags: DHS, government
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Friday, July 03, 2009 11:43:38 AM GMT Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:45:39 PM GMT
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Beautiful Allied Luders 33 sailboat

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Friday, November 27, 2009 3:15:17 AM GMT Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:55:13 PM GMT
A beautiful Allied Luders 33 sailboat named Diana. (more)
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Brazil wins FIFA Confederations Cup final, defeats USA 3–2 - Wikinews, the free news source

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:27:44 PM GMT Monday, June 29, 2009 1:13:19 PM GMT
Brazil wins FIFA Confederations Cup final, defeats USA 3–2From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!Jump to: navigation, search Monday, June 29, 200928 June 2009United States'BrazilCoca-Cola Park, Johannesburg Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)Dempsey10' Donovan27'ReportFabiano46'74' Lúcio84'Wikinews SportsOther sports stories29 June 2009: Brazil wins FIFA Confederations Cup final, defeats USA 3–226 June 2009: Blake Griffin taken first in 2009 NBA Draft25 June 2009: Lleyton Hewitt knocks Juan ... (more)
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World's smallest car enters Ripley's Believe it or Not museum - Wikinews, the free news source

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:29:12 PM GMT Friday, June 26, 2009 7:09:59 PM GMT
World's smallest car enters Ripley's Believe it or Not museumFrom Wikinews, the free news source you can write!Jump to: navigation, search Thursday, June 25, 2009Peel P50 Image: Philip (flip) Kromer. The Peel P50, a single door, three wheel microcar went on display at New York'sRipley's Believe It or Not! Museum on Monday. The Peel Engineering Company manufactured 50 to 100 of the one-seater vehicles which weighed 130 lb (59 kg), and are 52.8 in (134 cm) in length, 47 in (120 cm) in height and 39 in ... (more)
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Singer and songwriter Michael Jackson dies at age 50 - Wikinews, the free news source

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:29:12 PM GMT Friday, June 26, 2009 7:02:57 PM GMT
Singer and songwriter Michael Jackson dies at age 50From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!Jump to: navigation, searchThis article is breaking news and may change rapidly. Cite all sources used. Please consider joining our IRC channel to help co-ordinate work. Thursday, June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson in 1988 Image: Alan Light. Michael Jackson, a singer and songwriter who was dubbed as the 'King of Pop', has died today at the age of 50. Initial reports had stated that Jackson is in a coma a... (more)
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