A Better Search Engine. X= (C*15) + (E*40) + ((A1*40) + (A2*30) + (A3*20) + (A4*10) + (A5*5)) + (M*20) X = The ranking value for any given entry for a given search query. C = The natural ranking given … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bing, Gigablast, Google, Microsoft, nutch, searchwiki, social search, Web search engine, Yahoo, YouTube
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I remember as a teenager programming for years in QBASIC – a free, lite version of QuickBasic Microsoft bundled with DOS and early versions of Windows. It was great fun – but I yearned to get my hands on the … Continue reading →
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Tagged asp.net, ASP.NET Web Matrix, c#, free, ide, Microsoft, Microsoft SQL Server, programming, QBASIC, software, SQL, SQL Server Express, vb, Visual Basic
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DotNetNuke (DNN) is a popular open source content management system written in ASP.NET with Microsoft SQL Server as the back-end. I’ve been using it for a number of years on sites of mine like davemackey.net. I’ve been a fan of … Continue reading →
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Tagged asp.net, cms, dnn, dotnetnuke, drupal, extensions, free, joomla, Microsoft, modules, mssql, MySQL, open source, oss, php, plugins, skins, wordpress
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I run a number of hobby sites – like this one. But unlike this one, many of my older hobby sites run on Windows. I’ve been using WebSecureStores (a shared host) and am fairly happy with them – but they … Continue reading →
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Tagged angry, ctrix, esx, frustrated, hosting, hyper-v, Microsoft, parallels, review, support, swsoft, ticket, virtuozzo, vmware, vps, vpsland, web, windows, xen, xenserver
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Image via Wikipedia If you want to write a document, what do you use? Microsoft Word. If you want to create a spreadsheet – what do you use? Microsoft Excel? What do you call those interactive slideshows you project onto … Continue reading →
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Tagged excel, impress, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org, Operating Systems, powerpoint, presentations, productivity, software, StarOffice, Sun Microsystems, Windows Vista, word processor
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