If you haven’t heard, Techmeme has a new feature, the “Leaderboard”. TechCrunch is heralding it as the defeating the last stronghold of Technorati. Robert Scoble is lamenting the “death of blogging”. Techmeme itself says the list consists of “Techmeme’s top 100 sources, including blogs, non-blogs, and everything in between”, so they’re not trying to be the sort of “Blog Authority” everyone else seems to be trying to make them.
Read more...Be sure to go and register now! The sooner you do the cheaper it is. I want to CodeMash 2007 and it was one of the most awesome experiences I had, be sure to check out my blog entries detailing last year if you want an idea of what it’s all about. It’s inexpensive, it’s at a waterpark, it’s easy to get to, people are friendly, what more reason do you need? Do you live to code? Why aren’t you already registered!?
Read more...Here’s a good overview of the compression in SQL 2008 and why it’s a good thing. Though I don’t quite get the point on memory, don’t you have to decompress the data at some point? Surely this will end up using more memory resources, say you have a 50% compressed piece of data in memory, to store the uncompressed data would require another 100% on top of that, effectively using 150% more then if you just had the uncompressed data in memory to begin with. Or am I missing something? Regardless, if you’ve ever zipped up a SQL Backup (I have, more times then I can count) then this seems like an obvious piece of “low hanging fruit” for the SQL 2008 team. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t at least include built in compression for database backup and restore…
Read more...Charlie Calvert’s Community Convergence posts are a great way to catch up with the Microsoft C# team. Be sure to check out the latest edition!
Read more...Or at least one employee does. Peter Torr, a program manager at Microsoft, admits to editing Wikipedia articles on HD-DVD in order to “[keep] the pages interesting, up-to-date, and accurate”. He also comes clean about doing a bit of anonymous editing in the past and states he created a Wikipedia account so noone can “stumble” on his edits and accuse Microsoft of astroturfing or such. Which of course people will. I personally applaud Peter for being upfront with his editing, it will be up to the users of Wikipedia to decide if his comments are biased or not. I would encourage Microsoft to make a standard corporate Wikipedia account that their employees should use if they want to edit Wikipedia. Or establish a policy that they must create a MSFT* user or some-such. Though most companies are becoming transparent wither they want to or not, thanks to WikiScanner. Regardless, another sign that Microsoft is more open then people give them credit for.
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