Bedtime stories go online as Noddy signs up to Windows Live Messenger (Guardian Unlimited) Published on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:10:15 GMT Bedtime stories may never be the same after the launch of an online tool to let parents and children who cannot be together share classic tales. Built by entertainment company Chorion for the Noddy stories, Time for a Story lets parents and grandparents contact a child through Windows Live Messenger and lead them through a digital version of stories about the character. Chorion is ... Click Here for Other Details

Getting Started with Drupal (O'Reilly Media) Published on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:46:41 GMT Once upon a time, website programming was a fairly arduous proposition. You could spend months putting together the various back end processing pages in ASP or PHP or Perl, writing included files that, if you were thoughtful about it, may contain some reuse, but overall writing such code by hand almost invariably meant that the code was not only very targeted to one particular use but was an ... Click Here for Other Details

What we learned on the web this week (Guardian Unlimited) Published on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:39:11 GMT Picks from the world wide web Related Stories President-elect Barack Obama 'to give up his BlackBerry' Former Coke executive Rafael McDonnell to retune EMI Music Carphone Warehouse ponders TalkTalk split Jon Blyth: A list to end listlessness Pirates stole my Christmas Wii Click Here for Other Details

Rugby captain tribute brings record numbers to Limerick paper's website (Guardian Unlimited) Published on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:25:40 GMT Local daily newspaper the Limerick Leader has seen record numbers of visitors to its website this week as outraged residents paid tribute to murdered rugby captain Shane Geoghegan. The 28-year-old was shot in what is believed to be a case of mistaken identity between rival drug gangs, highlighting an escalating crime problem in the city. Geoghegan was shot nine times with a Glock ... Click Here for Other Details

Microsoft woos SMBs with new server solutions (Infomatics) Published on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:55:06 GMT Microsoft has launched a new range of enterprise-class server technologies for small and medium sized firms with limited resources, which the company claims will enable them to reduce costs and become more competitive. Click Here for Other Details

LINQ-to-SQL and T-SQL (Dr. Dobb's Journal) Published on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:07:21 GMT LINQ-to-SQL, an API for working with data in a SQL Server database, fully supports the LINQ syntax for running queries. Click Here for Other Details

Research and Markets: Professional C# 2008 prepares you to Program In C#, And It Provides the Necessary Background ... (Centre Daily Times) Published on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:09:17 GMT Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1bd322/_net_3_5_wrox_box) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report ".NET 3.5 Wrox Box: Professional ASP.NET 3.5, Professional C# 2008, Professional LINQ, .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#" to their offering. Click Here for Other Details

Research and Markets: Professional C# 2008 prepares you to Program In C#, And It Provides the Necessary Background ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) Published on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:52:00 GMT DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report ".NET 3.5 Wrox Box: Professional ASP.NET 3.5, Professional C# 2008, Professional LINQ, .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#" to their offering. Click Here for Other Details

Relational Database Technology: A Crash Course (O'Reilly Media) Published on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:16:22 GMT The following is an excerpt from the newly released Programming ASP.NET 3.5 by Jesse Liberty, Dan Maharry, and Dan Hurwitz. According to them, ASP.NET 3.5 is possibly the fastest, most efficient, most reliable, and best-supported way to create interactive web applications today. Combined with the development tools available from Microsoft (both free and commercial), it is incredibly easy to ... Click Here for Other Details

Making sense of Microsoft's Azure (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) Published on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:00:00 GMT Last week, Microsoft announced its cloud-computing effort, called Azure. Fitting between Google's and Amazon.com's current offerings, it represents a very big step toward moving applications off the desktop and out of a corporation's own datacenters. Whether or not it will have any traction with corporate IT developers remains to be seen. Click Here for Other Details

Are Relational Database Systems Keeping Up with the Information ... - B-EYE-Network Published on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:35:49 GMT Are Relational Database Systems Keeping Up with the Information ... B-EYE-Network, CO - Nov 19, 2008 For a SQL programmer, SQL/XML is easy to learn because it involves additions to the existing SQL language. XQuery is a XML query language defined by the ... Click Here for Other Details

SQL still serves - SDTimes.com Published on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:39:28 GMT SQL still serves SDTimes.com, CA - Nov 18, 2008 Another factor in SQL?s favor is the abundance of skilled SQL programmers, said Vertafore?s Kinsman. ?We have folks [on staff] who know Transact-SQL. ... Click Here for Other Details

Programming a Parallel Future - GigaOm Published on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:16:54 GMT Programming a Parallel Future GigaOm, CA - Nov 8, 2008 Many legacy SQL programs parallelize naturally, and every SQL programmer continues to write inherently parallel code. Unfortunately, SQL represents a ... Click Here for Other Details

Creating Windows Mobile Databases with SQL Anywhere - eWeek Published on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:04:38 GMT Creating Windows Mobile Databases with SQL Anywhere eWeek,  NY - Nov 12, 2008 ... to the C:\Program Files\SQL Anywhere 11\Documentation\en\HTMLHelp and open the sqlanywhere_en11.chm file to get started. Once a programmer finally jumps ... Click Here for Other Details

Hands-On SQL - Microsoft Certified Professional Published on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:18:32 GMT Hands-On SQL Microsoft Certified Professional - Oct 30, 2008 They also tackle?head on and in a light, informative manner?how to tune the actual SQL code itself. In fact, the authors show a SQL programmer making his or ... Click Here for Other Details

Parallel Programming in the Age of Big Data - GigaOm Published on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:07:24 GMT Parallel Programming in the Age of Big Data GigaOm, CA - Nov 9, 2008 In this context, there is some good news for parallel programming. Data analysis software parallelizes fairly naturally. In fact, software written in SQL ... Click Here for Other Details

Credit Card Theft: Steps to Protect You and Your Customers - Practical Ecommerce (subscription) Published on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:27:32 GMT Practical Ecommerce (subscription) Credit Card Theft: Steps to Protect You and Your Customers Practical Ecommerce (subscription), Grand Junction - 19 hours ago Just like any other type of software, ecommerce software is subject to programmer errors. These errors could allow a thief to get access to credit card ... Click Here for Other Details

We are now seeking to hire an experienced GIS Programmer to ... - GISuser.com (press release) Published on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:24:45 GMT We are now seeking to hire an experienced GIS Programmer to ... GISuser.com (press release), MD - Nov 14, 2008 ... demonstrated abilities with various programming languages (Java, Visual Basic, ASP/ASP.NET), and proficient knowledge of SQL Server or Oracle databases. ... Click Here for Other Details

Cloud Thinking: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google - PC Magazine Published on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:09:14 GMT Cloud Thinking: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google PC Magazine - Nov 12, 2008 Other than a few Excel macros, I haven't done any real programming in years. And it's been even longer since I've been a professional programmer. ... Click Here for Other Details

Senior C#.Net Analyst Programmer - $100K - iTWire Published on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:15:54 GMT Senior C#.Net Analyst Programmer - $100K iTWire, Australia - Nov 13, 2008 T-SQL skills are also important, and you must have a minimum of 3 years experience and skills in developing and tuning a medium scale SQL Server environment ... Click Here for Other Details