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Bing vs Google
Feb 6th
Ok let’s compare results for an EF how-to: linq to entities group by date
Google results vs Bing results
Bing does not have the expert.tc and questionhub spamsites, and also ranks the msdn forum solution higher (#2 vs #4).
Albeit the correct solution for EF4 involves EntityFunctions.TruncateTime.
Gotchas
Jan 23rd
Small things I always forget:
.equals where comparing strings in Java!
HH:mm instead of hh:mm with DateTime.ToString!
… to be continued
SqlFunctions
Nov 15th
I had no idea about these functions, you can now use all SQL Server features in Entity Framework 4 Linq queries.
PSDBreaker
Nov 13th
PSDBreaker is a Photoshop add-in to automatically export your website design to HTML and CSS. It doesn’t use absolute positioning, detects columns and has lots of other nice features, the resulted code is very usable. Give it a try now!
Qt SDK Commercial Pricing
Nov 3rd
ROFL – Nokia wants to kick Android and iOS with their commercial Qt SDK being only 2995 euros ?!
Startup Batch
Aug 3rd
Two startups I wished I’d though of that:
- GazeHawk – Webcam-based eye-tracking website heatmaps, tech-based but not easy at all to develop
- Rapportive – GMail Social Sidebar, much easier to build but harder to monetize ?
VS2010 drop files in editor
Jul 16th
If you have “Drag and drop text editing” disabled you cannot drop files anymore in the editor (to open them).
Please vote for the bug: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/575691/dropping-files-in-the-editor-does-not-work, maybe they fix it in the SP.
Calling All Innovators – Romania
Jul 16th
Urbee is finalist: http://www.callingallinnovators.com/romania/
The Old New Thing
Jul 8th
Win32 guru Raymond Chen answers a comment of mine after 3 years 
. Thanks God I don’t do Visual C++ anymore, Win32 was an absolute horror .
Windows Live Writer
Jun 30th
Rules because of one feature: you can paste an image directly in the editor (like in MS Word) and have it posted on the blog, no more saving and uploading.
