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Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 15 of 19): XNA Deep Dive, Part 2

Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 15 of 19): XNA Deep Dive, Part 2

...with the StartupMode property. It covers the importance of event logging, the 'gotchas' of Tombstoning in XNA, persisting game data and storage, the Back button... Read more

29 October, 2010

Keeping cloud computing in perspective

I've been talking about cloud computing a lot recently, both at an analyst conference and at seminars organised by a... Read more

25 November, 2011
Windows 7 migration: Calculating the costs (part 2)

Windows 7 migration: Calculating the costs (part 2)

...in turn, will minimise downtime, making it a very worthwhile investment. Possible gotchas Of course, there will still be things you haven't planned for... Read more

23 November, 2010 by Alan Stevens

I, Spammer (Or: How Google Made Me Evil)

Like the red light in the cockpit or the 2am phone call, that out-of-hours IM from a workmate comes with its very own... Read more

29 October, 2010
Ace's Poker Guide to Hold'em HD 1.0

Ace's Poker Guide to Hold'em HD 1.0

...lose you the hand! Ace entertains you with his humor, tips, and gotchas as you progress through this guided tutorial. Like any good coach, Ace... Read more

3 September, 2011
Regular Expressions Cookbook 1.0

Regular Expressions Cookbook 1.0

...and irreplaceable tool. You'll learn powerful new tricks, avoid language-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with this huge library of proven solutions to... Read more

11 September, 2010

Avoid Java threading gotchas

...threading before they're ready. Let's look at some of the gotchas that can sneak in while using threads. Unsynchronised wait()This is a... Read more

5 February, 2003 by Ryan Brase

Avoid common PHP gotchas

If you find yourself debugging PHP code at the last minute, it makes sense to look for some of the more common errors first Read more

7 August, 2002 by James Cox

Bare-Metal VM Farms Part2

Talked to a rep today at Virtual Computing. There are some "soft gotchas" with the bare metal VM concept. ( A soft gotcha is one that... Read more

3 September, 2009
Create Formulas With Formula AutoComplete

Create Formulas With Formula AutoComplete

The Formula AutoComplete feature in Office Excel 2007 helps to avoid gotchas - those little syntax or typing mistakes that can break the formula and... Read more

1 January, 2008

Avoiding 10 common Web-application flaws

...list of the most common Web application security mistakes. These are the "gotchas" I usually see: Blind trust of information retrieved from cookies and parameters... Read more

19 February, 2004 by Ronald Anthony Lewis

Windows 7 confirmed for 2009 launch

...beta version. "You know pretty quickly if you've got any big gotchas," he said. "You can get a pretty good sniff pretty quickly." Equally... Read more

12 May, 2009 by Ina Fried

Jaunty Jackalope's April First jape

...who's had to codify time will testify, there are a million gotchas in coping with the many oddities that happen when humans try to... Read more

1 April, 2009
10 things you should know about Windows XP Backup

10 things you should know about Windows XP Backup

...IT consultant Erik Eckel created this list of Windows Backup's options, gotchas, and usage considerations, including a look at advanced settings and types of... Read more

8 August, 2006

MSN Spaces launch stumbles

...and hard for this release and unfortunately, it was one of those gotchas that only showed up once we were in production." The blog entry... Read more

4 August, 2006 by Daniel Terdiman

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

40 minutes ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

51 minutes ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

2 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

4 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

4 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

5 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

6 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

7 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

9 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

9 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

13 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

15 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

17 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

24 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

1 day ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

1 day ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

1 day ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

1 day ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report