Paper+Color+Concept=40 Creative & Inspirational Piece of Art

40 spectacular paper designs (using amazing colors & concepts) that need to look good and be informative in order to focus users’ attention and effectively convey the message.

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7 Fresh and Simple Ways to Test Cross-Browser Compatibility

This post is written for designer, developers, or anyone else who has struggled with testing their websites across multiple browsers.

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10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website

You may have a personal portfolio website for a number of reasons. If you’re a freelancer, then you’d need one to showcase your work and allow people to contact you. If you’re a student (or unemployed), then you’d need one to show prospective employers how good you are and what you can do, so that they might hire you.

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Paper+Color+Concept=40 Creative & Inspirational Piece of Art

40 spectacular paper designs (using amazing colors & concepts) that need to look good and be informative in order to focus users’ attention and effectively convey the message.

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13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Designers

Here are countless free stuffs available for designers which everyone should review at least once. In this post, I have collected 13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Every Designer.

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How to use Icons to Support Content in Web Design

This article showcases beautiful examples and best practices of using icons to support content in web design. Please feel free to take a look at the showcases of navigation menus, search boxes, blockquotes and web forms.

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How to use Icons to Support Content in Web Design

This article showcases beautiful examples and best practices of using icons to support content in web design. Please feel free to take a look at the showcases of navigation menus, search boxes, blockquotes and web forms.

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Problems connecting to SSAS 2005 from Excel 2003

Today I was trying to connect to SSAS 2005 cube from Excel 2003 and I was not able to do so using the exisitng OLAP 8.0.

I had to download the folowing to resolve the problem.

1. Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 SP1
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services 9.0 OLE DB Provider

I have followed the article on Microsoft downloads http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940167

and that solved my problem !

Internal Domain Redirects with ASP.net and C# (C-sharp)

An extremely useful article explaining how to issue internal domain redirects in ASP.net, through modifying global.asax.

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Terminate User processes in SQL Server

This article illustrates how to create a simple procedure to kill many sessions at the same time, kill a range of sessions and kill all of the sessions connecting to a database.

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Custom Error Handling in ASP.net C# (C-Sharp)

An article offering a nice solution on how to properly set up custom error handling in ASP.net.

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CopyFileEx With Progress Callback in 20C

This article will show you how to call unmanaged DLL functions from C#. It will specifically walk through how to call CopyFileEx with a callback to report progress.

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Flash vs Silverlight: Laser Orbit

A stunning effect with a laser orbiting around the mouse! In this example, it demonstrated the difference in dispatching Event between AS3 and C#.It included both Flash and Silverlight versions with complete source codes.

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Creating 3D and 2D Interactive Web Content

Learn and read more about this 3D platform, that is web-based (supports most common browsers)!

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Collections of Internet Resources for Software Developers

As a software developer, you need to constantly update your knowledge on new software technologies and new career opportunities for your own career development. This requires you spending time on search and find information on software technologies and career opportunities. This collection of Internet resources will help your to locate the informat

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How To Watch YouTube Videos In High Quality

The technique to view youtube videos in higher quality is extremley simple and can be applied to any youtube video, it will however only work directly on the youtube website and only for some videos reportedly all after 2006.

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Flash Quiz - Create your own free quiz

Want to create a quiz for your website but don't have the skills? This free software lets you quickly create and customise your very own multiple choice quiz. Just download the software and use the step-by-step wizard.

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Grade your website

Website Grader is a free tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a web site. The tool provides a score that incorporates elements such as web site traffic, SEO, social popularity, and other technical factors. This is a great tool when it comes to gaining an idea about what's working well and what could be improved on your site.

Scheduling a SSAS backup on SQL Server 2005

Today I had a requirement to schedule a backup on SQL Server Analysis Services. Here is the link that I found very useful for me. SSIS package to backup SSAS databases

Copying records from database into another -- SQL

I had this requirement today where I had to copy from a table in one database into a similar table in another database.

the code I have used in

[code]
insert into database1.dbo.table1 select * from database2.dbo.table1 where xxxxx
[/code]

where xxxx is the criteria that you need to add.

Precautions you have to tak before you do this.

Backup the database into which you are copying the record so that you can restore if something goes wrong.
Copy contents when there are no other transactions being entered into the database1