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Hot Banana Wins 2005 e-Content Award -
Best Content Management System - CMS

Hot Banana Wins 2005 e-Content Award -
Best Content Management System - CMS 04/08/2005 04:55 AM
Hot Banana Software Inc., a leading North American Web Content Management Suite (CMS) company, announced today that it has won the 2005 e-Content award for the best Content Management System. The Canadian e-Content Awards are sponsored by the e-Content Institute and were created to recognize and honor e-content products and services used by Canadian organizations and individuals. [PRWEB Apr 8, 2005]

Usenet Content Up For Grabs On Content
Hungry Web

Usenet Content Up For Grabs On Content
Hungry Web 12/19/2004 03:08 PM
The age old question of copyright and Usenet comes up again.

The Difference Between Online Content
And Broadcast Content

The Difference Between Online Content
And Broadcast Content 02/10/2004 02:46 PM
Major League Baseball made news last year for claim ing to own all in-progress game data - saying they were going to go after websites that reported what was happening at a game in real-time. It didn't matter that the law is pretty clear that you can't copyright facts - MLB believes that just presenting the data is a "rebroadcast" of the game. That said, I guess it's no surprise to hear that they now believe that web audio and video broadcasts of games should work the same way as television broadcasts with a content provider paying a huge upfront fee for the rights to the games, and then telling them they can make it back in ad revenue and subscription fees. Of course, the various internet sites they've approached with this plan have been laughing them out the door, and pointing out that they're not television stations, and they just want to provide something useful to their users - but aren't going to lose money to do so. While MLB has been at the forefront of offering streaming video and audio, it appears they still look on this as a broadcast medium, and not the interactive medium it actually is. They're doing their best to squeeze more money out of existing fans, rather than attract new fans, which is dangerous for the future of the sport. Not only do you anger your biggest fans, you also make it less likely that you're going to pick up new fans.

The C# Programming Techniques Content
Area of Premium Content Aggregator
Braintique.com, www.braintique.com, is
Now Open

The C# Programming Techniques Content
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Braintique.com, www.braintique.com, is
Now Open 02/01/2005 09:17 PM
C# Programming Techniques features articles, tips, techniques, and source code created by well-known author and programmer Harold Davis. Davis is the author of more than twenty books about programming and technology, including most recently Building Research Tools with Google For Dummies published by John Wiley. [PRWEB Jan 30, 2005]

Fighting pop-ups

Fighting pop-ups 01/18/2004 08:17 PM
Standard pop-ups: Many tools, some of which are free, block the pop-ups that are displayed by Web sites. One of the most popular is offered by Google. ...

Fighting the last war

Fighting the last war 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
From 60 Minutes, Clarke's Take On Terror (Clarke was the White House terrorism adviser). "There's a lot of blame to go around, and I probably deserve some blame, too. But on January 24th, 2001, I wrote a memo to Condoleezza Rice asking for, urgently -- underlined urgently -- a Cabinet-level meeting to deal with the impending al Qaeda attack. And that urgent memo-- wasn't acted on. "I blame the entire Bush leadership for continuing to work on Cold War issues...

SAP comes out fighting

SAP comes out fighting 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
NetWeaver 2004 will go head-to-head WebSphere and BizTalk, according to a CNET News.com story, SAP plan could spawn ...

What We're Fighting For

What We're Fighting For 05/22/2004 03:39 PM
A newly formed women's group mounts undercover missions near American military bases to improve troop morale: "If you are out there partying and engage in casual sex you might as well 'Take One for the Country.'"

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps
Fighting

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps
Fighting 05/17/2004 12:02 PM
Dennis J. Kucinich would like to remind American voters of something: He's still here.

But I'm fighting Hitler..!

But I'm fighting Hitler..! 11/10/2003 10:48 PM
Daredevil and Captain America Hang Out... at the Quickstop.
(Warning: Flash --and geekfare!-- follow.)

Fighting back

Fighting back 01/06/2005 04:59 PM
USA Today Jan 6 2005 8:02PM GMT

Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting

Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting 12/15/2003 04:29 PM
More misguide copyright protection fun: Miramax demands Kung Fu site remove link to a site that USED to sell a current Miramax property

Fighting ID theft

Fighting ID theft 06/08/2004 07:28 AM
USA Today Jun 8 2004 11:57AM GMT

"Fighting Failure"

"Fighting Failure" 09/27/2004 11:18 AM

"Fighting together for one America"

"Fighting together for one America" 07/06/2004 09:52 AM

The ignorance you're fighting against

The ignorance you're fighting against 08/13/2004 03:47 AM
Folks, it appears that you haven't been doing your job, or perhaps you're just being ignored. I'm speaking to both vendors and IT personnel here. The security execs and "senior IT" people don't seem to get it when we talk about identity management.

Eriksson comes out fighting

Eriksson comes out fighting 08/14/2004 02:48 AM
England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson slams the media after the recent FA controversy.

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps On
Fighting

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps On
Fighting 05/16/2004 10:44 PM
Before Americans get too engrossed in a showdown between President Bush and Senator John Kerry, Dennis J. Kucinich would like to remind them of something: He's still out here.

Fighting comment spam

Fighting comment spam 02/01/2005 08:40 PM
Jay Allen has written a very nice document on how to fight comment spam Jay Allen should know a thing or two about comment spam. Before joing Six Apart he wrote the now famous MT-Blacklist plugin for Movable Type. If...

Fighting spam: Opting out is in

Fighting spam: Opting out is in 06/23/2004 01:13 AM
Straits Times Jun 23 2004 5:26AM GMT

Spamholes Fighting Spammers

Spamholes Fighting Spammers 12/09/2003 08:28 AM
mike9010 writes "A person named I)ruid has come up with an ingenious way to combat those spammers. His program, spamhole, creates a false 'open relay' that the ...

HD-DVD comes out fighting, launch in
2005

HD-DVD comes out fighting, launch in
2005 07/26/2004 09:09 AM
The HD-DVD (High Definition/High Density-DVD) next-generation optical disc format got a boost Monday with the announcement by Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. that they plan to launch compatible products next year and with word that a major Japanese content producer is backing the format. Toshiba and NEC announced their plans to launch HD-DVD hardware during the 2005 calendar year as a three-day event aimed at promoting the standard to Japan's entertainment industry got under way in Tokyo. Toshiba plans a home player and possibly a recorder while NEC said it plans a drive for use with computers.

Fighting Infections with Data

Fighting Infections with Data 09/20/2004 01:04 AM
Technology Review Sep 20 2004 5:40AM GMT

New Google Spam Fighting

New Google Spam Fighting 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
WebmasterWorld: Good news about expired domains. ``We've also put more of a focus on algorithmic improvements for spam issues. One resulting improvement with this index is better handling of expired domains--the authority for a domain will be reset when a domain expires, even though dangling links to the expired domain are still out on the web. We'll be rolling this change in over the next few months starting with this index. [...] I think you'll see more emphasis at Google on scalable algorithms rather than responding to individual spam reports.'' Basically, when you buy a domain that previously expired, you won't get the PageRank the old domain's owner accrued. Neat idea....

Fighting Child Pornography

Fighting Child Pornography 02/10/2003 03:00 AM
With the help of ordinary Internet tools like Google, Mapquest and Internet phone directories, the Clovis team was able to track down the abusers of 70 children ...

Fighting trust 'erosion'

Fighting trust 'erosion' 08/06/2004 12:53 AM
Usatoday.com - Wed Aug 4, 08:38 am GMT

Verizon, Qwest still fighting for MCI

Verizon, Qwest still fighting for MCI 03/17/2005 03:42 AM
ZDNet Mar 16 2005 4:40PM GMT

The Business of Fighting Terror

The Business of Fighting Terror 01/05/2005 06:47 AM
Wired News Jan 5 2005 10:39AM GMT

Nine killed in Sri Lanka fighting

Nine killed in Sri Lanka fighting 04/09/2004 04:03 PM

Enforcement is key to fighting
cybercrime

Enforcement is key to fighting
cybercrime 07/02/2004 11:26 AM
Analysis Leave law alone and feel more collars, MPs' report concludes

Berners-Lee comes out fighting to save
Web

Berners-Lee comes out fighting to save
Web 10/30/2003 12:36 PM
Father of the Web insists US patent office review vital case

Fighting viruses on the frontline

Fighting viruses on the frontline 11/05/2003 02:29 PM
BBC Nov 5 2003 1:19PM ET

Fighting Cyber-Crime

Fighting Cyber-Crime 01/03/2005 02:43 PM
InternetRetailer.com Jan 3 2005 6:46PM GMT

The Big Prize - Fighting Danzas

The Big Prize - Fighting Danzas 03/20/2003 06:38 PM
This is actually, in some aspects, a happy story. I entered my girlfriend in a contest on www.itavisen.no. And she...

ProtestWarrior.com - fighting the
left... doing it right

ProtestWarrior.com - fighting the
left... doing it right 07/19/2004 11:34 PM
"Fighting the Left - Doing it Right" .. This is absolutely brilliant .. this quality entertainment .. young fascist punks .. Protest Warrior .. ProtestWarrior .. Hippie Haters .. infiltrated .. this a-way

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Sun's fighting chance

Sun's fighting chance 09/20/2004 02:55 PM
Forrester CEO George Colony argues that if Sun goes down, it's going to go down taking very big swings.

Fighting Click Fraud

Fighting Click Fraud 07/20/2004 05:44 PM

Exposing click fraud: This is why I think that, ultimately, pay-per-click business models are flawed for the advertisers.

[...] some marketing executives estimate that up to 20 percent of fees in certain advertising categories continue to be based on nonexistent consumers in today's search industry.

[...] Human operations can be more difficult to detect because a wide network of people can click on ads from different computers across many regions, without a steady pattern. According to a report in the India Times, residents are being hired to click paid links from home, with the hopes of making between $100 to $200 per month.

I think the future is pay-for-performance (the advertiser only gets paid if someone actually puchases something).

This is an evolution, but so was the original pay-per-impression model that's slowly vanishing these days. I remember when pay-per-impression began to lose favor, site owners protested by saying, "But hat's how it works on TV and radio..."

However, with those mediums, you can't easily measure performance. With the Web, you can. That fact led to the demise of per-per-impression, and I think it will eventually lead to the demise of pay-per-click too. Pay-for-performance is pretty foolproof — the merchant doesn't pay until they have cash in hand, and that's hard to spoof.

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Fighting Online Extortion

Fighting Online Extortion 09/19/2004 11:24 AM

Fighting On Is the Only Option,
Americans Say

Fighting On Is the Only Option,
Americans Say 12/22/2004 01:50 AM
Many Americans said they were dispirited or angry about the war in Iraq, but many expressed equal unhappiness about seeing a lack of options.
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No more "clearing" DIVs?

No more "clearing" DIVs? 05/21/2004 03:55 PM
This is an intriguing article. (If you're a web developer.) How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup "One of the major premises of CSS is that it helps reduce the bloated HTML markup found it the average site these days. So having to re-bloat the markup just so floats can be kept within their containers is not an ideal arrangement...Thanks to the efforts of Tony Aslett, ...

Absolute Lists: Alternatives to Divs

Absolute Lists: Alternatives to Divs 01/27/2004 07:04 AM
Learn how to structure your site with lists, for the crazed semantic in all of us.

MSIE6 bug with floating divs and spacers

MSIE6 bug with floating divs and spacers 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

FTSE loss deepens as ex-divs, Cisco
update weigh

FTSE loss deepens as ex-divs, Cisco
update weigh 08/11/2004 04:50 AM
Reuters Aug 11 2004 9:13AM GMT

Regex-PreSuf-1.16

Regex-PreSuf-1.16 05/12/2004 05:10 PM

Regex-Iterator-0.1

Regex-Iterator-0.1 08/21/2004 05:04 PM

Test-Regex-0.01

Test-Regex-0.01 08/01/2004 11:30 PM

Regex-Iterator-0.2

Regex-Iterator-0.2 08/22/2004 05:58 AM

Apache Regex Problems

Apache Regex Problems 12/29/2003 08:07 PM
Noel Davis looks at problems in Apache, mod_php, XDM, Goahead Web Server, Xerox Document Center, SARAH, phpBB2, OpenBB, SquirrelMail, and pServ.

Perl vs. Java RegEx

Perl vs. Java RegEx 08/28/2004 01:03 AM

Tim Bray compares Perl and Java regular expression performance with the result of Java performing twice as fast as Perl when output performance is factored out.  Fantastic.  I knew Java regular expression library was fast but I didn't know it was this fast.  Even more encouraging, there are even faster third party regular expression libraries for Java.  I wonder if .NET 2.0 makes up for the lackluster RegEx performance in .NET 1.1.

Java Regex Wrangling

Java Regex Wrangling 08/22/2004 05:32 PM
I needed a quick and dirty tokenizer for a big chunk of XML-ish text to feed into some Java code so I was going to fire up Perl, then I remembered that modern Java comes with its own regular-expression library. Hey, it’s good! I put it together in quick-n-dirty hacker style, and it ran over a 100M file, finding fifteen million tokens, in about three minutes of CPU time on my 1.25GHz PowerBook. Quite respectable, but, I thought with a snicker, I bet Perl can beat that. (Perl’s regex engine is generally regarded as the state of the art.) So I whacked together a Perl version (I’m considerably more practiced at Perl than Java) and hrumph, Perl 5.8.1 fell over and refused to run the big regex. Experts may read on to look at the gory details. [Update: some have, the perl version is flawed, stand by for further reports.]...

Open-Source Regex

Open-Source Regex 08/27/2004 02:07 PM
A few days ago I wrote a little report on regular-expression performance; it drew a surprising amount of feedback, including one piece that throws an interesting sidelight on the trade-offs around Java and Open Source...

Data Globbing with MySQL Regex

Data Globbing with MySQL Regex 07/13/2004 11:50 PM

As I become a more experienced developer, I'm learning when you should and shouldn't break the rules. While following every rule of programming and data modeling is wonderful, sometimes you need to bend the rules for the sake of simplicity and expediency.

Always remember, an app in the hand is worth a thousand on the white board.

This being the case, lately I've been known to "glob" up data in database fields. Yes, I know this breaks the first normal form — that of atom icity — but there are times when doing it right would involve three more queries, two more database tables, another UI screen, etc. Often it makes the cure worse than the disease.

For instance, consider this little XML document as the contents of the "children" field for one of the records in my "church_attender" table:


<children>
  <child>
    <first_name>Isabella</first_name> ;
    <last_name>Barker</last_name>
  </child>
  <child>
    <first_name>Gabrielle</first_name&g t;
    <last_name>Barker</last_name>
  </child>
</children>



Now if I never wanted to search for individual children, I would make no excuses for this. It saves us a database table, a join, and a ton of complexity in the interface. Life is good.

Searching a globbed up field is a problem, though. We alluded to it in this post when we said:

However, the problem is that the XML field is a black box that — on most database platforms — you can't look inside. What if you want a list of articles written by a particular author? Well, you need to use SQL to get all the XML back, spin that collection, XPath into every single one to find the value author of the author node, then keep that record it matches.

So what if I want to find a person with a child named Gabrielle? Some databases (Oracle, for one), will let you do something like this:


SELECT * FROM church_attender WHERE XPATH(children,'/child/first_name') = 'Gabrielle'


That'd be great, but I don't have Oracle. However, given our experience this week with MySQL regular expressions, how unacceptable would this be:


SELECT * FROM church_attender WHERE children LIKE '%Gabrielle%' AND children RLIKE '<children>.*<child>.*<first_name> Gabrielle </first_name>.*</child>.*</children>'


(Note that there are some extra spaces in there just so the lines would wrap.)

Yes, yes, I know the database Gods would frown on this, but given the enourmous amount of complexity it would save us, is it acceptable? Does the good outweigh the bad?

Fishing for opinions here. Let's hear them.

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Crawl Master (OO Perl, LWP, regex)

Crawl Master (OO Perl, LWP, regex) 04/04/2005 10:24 AM
Open List, Inc. - United States, N.Y., New York (2005-04-04)

C++ Regex Engine 0.05b (Default branch)

C++ Regex Engine 0.05b (Default branch) 04/14/2005 04:12 AM
C++ Regex Engine provides a robust regular expression library for use in C++. The syntax of the regular expression language is very close to the Perl 5 standard. The classes given somewhat mirror those found in Java's regular expression library, but have several improvements. The intended audience of this package is anyone who does a lot of data parsing (e.g. sysadmins), people tired of trying to decipher Perl scripts, and regular expression beginners who know C++. Some knowledge of the STL's vector and string will come in handy, but isn't necessary.

---

Changes:
Possibly very buggy Unicode support was added. Preliminary tests show that both Unicode and ASCII matching works, though the Unicode aspects have not yet been tested thoroughly.

Revisiting C# and Java RegEx Benchmark

Revisiting C# and Java RegEx Benchmark 01/18/2004 03:45 AM

Last year, these benchmark  ;results became hot points of contention between Java and .NET developers.What the results suggested was that Java regular expression engines are significantly faster than .NET's Regex.

I thought it might be fun to port one of the fastest Java regular expression engines to J# and see how it performs compared to .NET's Regex.  I chose the dk.brics.automaton engine because it seemed easiest to port.  It was.  When I ran a straight-forward C# port of regtest.java on the J# version of dk.brics.automaton and compiled singleline Regex, I got these results:

dk.brics.automaton	2303 milliseconds>
Regex	2894 milliseconds>

I also ran regtest.java on the original dk.brics.automaton and Java's built-in regular expression engine.  Results were:

dk.brics.automaton	511 milliseconds>
java.util.regex	1061 milliseconds>

Based on these admittedly informal results, Regex performance is probaly not caused by bad design or implementation of regular expression but by performance issues that may exist within CLR and core classes.  Since I lack the enthusiasm to dig into the innards except in pursuit of a critical bug, I'll leave it up to the CLR team to chase further.

IMHO, .NET performance is 'good enough' for server-side use at this time so please don't misinterpret this post as an attempt to pull .NET down in favor of Java.  BTW, I won't be using my port of dk.brics.automaton in production because it's seems to miss some patterns that it should have found.

Regex Wizard Needed for Web Site
Migration

Regex Wizard Needed for Web Site
Migration 08/16/2004 02:38 PM
Federation of American Scientists - United States, DC, Washington (2004-08-16)

Strip!

Strip! 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
Today was normal, as usual. Nothing great. Rehearsal today was alright (full dress rehearsal)...the fact that we haven't gone through...

"La strip di oggi"

"La strip di oggi" 12/21/2003 09:38 AM

Chart-Strip-1.01

Chart-Strip-1.01 02/14/2004 06:32 PM

Chart-Strip-1.0

Chart-Strip-1.0 02/12/2004 11:37 PM

Speed Strip SSA-1

Speed Strip SSA-1 02/12/2004 08:39 AM

Safety Strip

Safety Strip 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
A "warning badge" that can alert emergency workers to the presence of dangerous chemicals.

Strip Club

Strip Club 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
0.6.2 released

Strip Bracelet

Strip Bracelet 04/06/2005 11:31 AM

The Strip Bracelet is single length of silver, stamped with the logo of its designer. It arrives flat in a felt case and you bend it yourself to fit your wrist. It might possible be the laziest product design I've ever seen. The next model will require you to mine your own silver.

Strip Bracelet [MoCoLoCo]

Daily Strip Manager 1.3

Daily Strip Manager 1.3 07/23/2004 11:44 AM
A simple PHP UI for the DailyStrips Perl script.

"Mayor of the Sunset Strip"

"Mayor of the Sunset Strip" 04/13/2004 08:48 AM
Meet L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who helped launch the careers of Blondie, the Ramones, Van Halen, the Go-Go's and countless others.

Daily Strip Manager 1.0

Daily Strip Manager 1.0 11/04/2003 06:00 PM
A simple PHP UI for the DailyStrips Perl script.

this Tom Tomorrow cartoon strip

this Tom Tomorrow cartoon strip 11/12/2003 01:16 PM
his own inimitable manner .. Chicken Hawk Down! .. latest comic .. cartoon

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Man Convicted of Tricking Men to Strip
(AP)

Man Convicted of Tricking Men to Strip
(AP) 04/01/2005 05:42 PM
AP - Prosecutors offered a man convicted of tricking men into stripping by posing as a radio disc jockey a plea agreement that would send him to prison for up to 16 years.

Fighting Content Rot

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