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- Geek Trivia: Out at first, but ruled safe
- Test your command ofuseless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automaticallysign up today!U.S. President George W. Bush has occasionally joked thathis biggest mistake before becoming president was trading Sammy Sosa, the starpower-hitting right fielder currently of the Chicago Cubs. Sosa was a far lessaccomplished baseball prospect for the...
- Tags: baseball, game, Jay Garmon, pastime, presidency, Sammy Sosa, William Howard Taft
- Technical articles 2004-06-15
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- SmartDraw in Video Game Design: Creating UML Diagrams in Video Game Development
- Dave Wagner is Engine & Tools Director for Sammy Studios, Inc., an interactive entertainment company that creates and distributes video games. Many of the company's programmers were using a popular diagramming tool to create UML diagrams for video game development. They were actually preparing to standardize with one of SmartDraw's...
- Tags: Video Game, SmartDraw.com, Video, Dave Wagner, Games, UML, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing
- Case studies
- Editing a custom dictionary in Word
- If your students use a custom dictionary—and they should—mistakes are bound to creep into it. Show them how to keep their dictionaries accurate and useful.Word’s spelling checker can make the difference between a professional, error-free document and one plagued with enough typos to raise the boss’ eyebrows. And checking the...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Jody Gilbert, custom dictionary, Microsoft Word
- Technical articles 1999-10-07
- Pets
- PetsThere was a suggestion a couple of days ago to start a discussion about pets. I thought that was a good idea for a Miscellaneous topic and since nobody else has started it, I will.I’ll say right here at the top of this discussion that I like most animals more...
- Tags: Tiffany, Buffy, Yoda Bear, rats, hogs, snakes, mice and whatever else you've got, cats, dogs, ItsTheInThingToDo, NeverBusted, off-topic, edited out, HaveFun_Peace, NB_HaveFun_Peace, Ol' NB, OnTheRopes
- Discussion threads 2006-05-22
- Why I hate Amazon reviews
- From Charles Stross via BoingBoing: What do the public really think of literature?The good Mr. Stross (my favorite contemporary science fiction author and a well known techno-cultural gadfly) has gone and cherry-picked the absolute worst Amazon reviews attached to great works of literature, illustrating that "customer-generated content" is only as...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
- Virtual Bar? No way!
- Virtual Bar? No way!I'm going for a [b]real[/b] beer. It's 5:35 local time and I will be sinking a cold Foster's by the time the thread can be loaded.See you later, guys and gals. :)oh dearis it beerthirty already? ;I'm not normaly a beer drinker in Canada and definitely...
- Tags: beer, Foster, Neil, neilb@..., off-topic, peer envy, schadenfreude, wiping the foam off my 'tache
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- Take advantage of strongly typed collection classes in .NET
- The .NET Framework provides abstract classes you can use to create strongly typed collections for more efficient data management. We'll walk you through some code samples that show you how to better access the data layer.As readers of Builder.com know from Lamont Adams’ articles "Collective confusion: Using collections in .NET"...
- Tags: .NET, Middleware, Microsoft development tools, Databases, Daniel L. Fox, Microsoft .NET, collection class, Microsoft .NET Framework
- Technical articles 2002-10-25
- Rate this Site!: The NBA site fouls out
- The NBA site reflects the league itself: lots of hot air, but no real personality. Kelly McKnight reviews their site, and we give you a chance to rate it for yourself.Enterprises are launching "corporate portals," gateway sites that act as an entryway to both a company's Web presence and its...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, Kelly McKnight, NBA
- Technical articles 2000-05-31
- Snakes on a Plane
- Okay, so I'm in my office talking to two of my employees and one of them hadn't heard anything about the Snakes on a Plane movie, so we're telling him about it. blah blah blah..Samuel L Jackson..blah blah blah..stupid name..etc. In the MIDDLE of this conversation, my phone...
- Tags: movie, Plane, Snake, planes, jules winfield, snakes, Snakes on a Plane, maecuff, off-topic, sub, Samuel L Jackson
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- Going out on your own
- You've got skills and qualifications. But do you have what it takes to become a successful independent trainer?So you’ve been doing the training thing for about two years now, and you’ve decided you really enjoy it. You like the classroom environment, and you like helping people learn about technology. But...
- Tags: Quality, Bruce Maples, certification, technical topic, training, independent trainer, Sam
- Technical articles 1999-04-28
- Rumpole of the Bailey
- Anyone here a fan of Rumpole of the Bailey BBS show staring Leo McKern?I was many years agoThere were SO many great shows like that at one time. Now the only hope is putting up with 40 minutes of pledge drives for every 20 minute segment of good British Comedy...
- Tags: Bailey BBS, Be Obeyed, CG IT, Dave Allen, Neighbour, off-topic, Penelope Keith, Richard, rumpole
- Discussion threads 2006-06-26
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