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Ever wonder which social media activities are most effective for promoting a small business website? We did, so we set out to test just that. With 6 brand new websites, all in the same niche and all created in a different major city,

Android's openness and large market share make it a target for attackers, but with a little tweaking, you can speed up, optimize, and secure the mobile OS

I have been coding a Windows 8 Metro Style App using the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview bits and Visual Studio 11 Express.  The app is going to be a retro shooter that takes advantage of HTML5 Canvas for the main game engine along with several Windows 8 Metro Style App Features.  This post is going to cover how to layout the elements of your game interface on the screen. 

Microsoft Word Automation clients cannot set the duplex print flag before a print job starts in Microsoft Office Word. Although a parameter in the PrintOut method indicates that there is support for duplex printing, the parameter does not provide true duplex printing. To work around this limitation on Microsoft Windows systems, you must change the duplex flag for the active printer driver before the PrintOut function is called in Word.

All eyes were on Microsoft's rather important launch of Windows Phone in China earlier this year. Nokia followed up with the Lumia 800c, released on China Telecom. According to Michel van der Bel, COO of Greater China Region at Microsoft, the company has achieved 7% marketshare in the country, overtaking the iPhone (sitting at just 6%).

The lesson here is that the impact of some of the new JDK 7 constructs are going to a little bit subtler than we might expect.

Will 3D printing really change the world?

We don’t need another SIM design, we need to get rid of the SIM. It’s a 1998 that just got little updates over time.

This article provides a very lucid explanation of one of the most commonly used design pattern in Object oriented environment - Factory design pattern. The explanation through practical examples has always been the success story for Idiotechie. Hope our readers will enjoy reading.

EasyNetQ is my high-level .NET API for RabbitMQ. Until recently, to publish a message using EasyNetQ you would create an instance of IBus and then call the publish method on it:

I've started using the mongrel2 web server and set it up with graphite on the same server. So I could just proxy all graphite requests from mongrel2 to Apache, or I could do try to get mongrel2 to talk wsgi to graphite directly. I chose latter and here’s how I did it.

Lostorage. js uses the HTML5 localStorage and sessionStorage APIs to provide a persistant client-side storage, mainly targeted at web apps. It has a cookie.js like interface. FEATURES: The minified version is 2.0 KiB large, 0.87 KB if minified and gzipped. It has no dependencies. You can store any kind of data with lostorage.js: Booleans, numbers, strings, arrays and plain objects. With the usual localStorage you can just read strings. lostorage.js supports chaining.

This page shows you how to install and configure the Nagios monitoring tool on your SmartMachine.

In this tutorial we'll look at HTML5 Canvas Interactivity, including how to make a simple drawing application!

cool solution using bytecode injection.

We’ve talked about the Select() and Where() LINQ extension methods before. The Select() method lets you project from the source type to a new type, and the Where() method lets you filter the list of items to the ones you are interested in. Most people know of these methods in their simplest form, where they simply take a projection and predicate respectively that operates on just an element. However, there are overloads for both of these methods that take a delegate that operates on both the element and the index of the element.

MobileRuby – A Slim Framework for Developing Your iOS Apps with Ruby MobiRuby is relatively new open source endeavor by Yuichiro MASUI who works for Appcelerator the company behind the popular Titanium platform to write native iOS, Android apps in JS. MobiRuby is built on top of mruby making it the first demonstration of what motivated developers can do with Matz new implementation. MobiRuby aims to replace Objective-C/C/Java on mobile platforms with Ruby, just like you can use Lua or Mono to build apps on those platforms. MobiRuby will be available under the Apache License 2.0.

Over some certain pieces of infrastructure (or infrastructure services) accumulate some feature or functionality that is not automated or documented. Here is how you prevent that...

This author will show you how to install Neo4j in GWT with Eclipse, and includes links to all the necessary software.

You are serving a Django application using Nginx to proxy to an Apache server running mod_wsgi and you want to allow slashes in your URL keywords.