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21 hours and 9 minutes ago
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width="1" height="1" //divpPeople who fail to tell the authorities of a change of address or amend
other key personal details within three months will face civil penalty fines of up to pound;1,000 a
time when the national identity card scheme is up and running, according to draft Home Office
regulations published yesterday./ppThe Home Office made clear that repeated failures to keep an
entry on the national identity register up to date could ultimately be enforced by bailiffs being
sent round to seize property./ppBut yesterday's detailed regulations to implement the national
identity card scheme make clear that they intend to avoid the creation of ID card "martyrs", by
levying no penalty on those who refuse to register for the national identity card database in the
first place./ppThe Liberal Democrat peer, Lady Williams, is amongst ID card "refuseniks" who have
said they are prepared to go to jail rather than sign up for the scheme. /ppBut the regulations
show that the main sanction they are likely to face is being barred from leaving the country when
it is time to renew their passport. /ppThe regulations confirm ministers' intention to make
passports a "designated document" which means anyone applying or renewing their passport will be
automatically issued with an ID card at the same time. Ministers claim that this does not amount to
compulsion but ID card critics disagree./ppThe consultation on the fine detail of how the ID card
scheme will work in practice published yesterday also makes clear:/pp· The pound;30 initial
fee for a standalone ID card valid for travel in Europe only is capped for the year 2009/10 when it
will be compulsory for airport workers and on a voluntary basis for students. The regulations allow
for this fee to be "modified" in future years including by 2012, when it is anticipated that mass
rollout will take place with 5-6 million combined passports/identity cards a year expected to be
issued. Passport fees will be on top of this basic charge./pp· If it necessary to change any
of the details held on the card, such as name or fingerprints which entail a new card being issued,
a further pound;30 will be charged. Changes of address or other details which do not appear on the
card will not be charged. /pp· Transgendered people: those "moving from their birth gender
to an acquired gender" will be able to apply for two ID cards - one for each gender. The second ID
card will use a different name, signature and photograph although they will be linked as one entry
on the national ID card register. Nevertheless they will be charged two fees for the privilege of
holding two cards./pp· Homeless people and others who live "transient lifestyles" will also
be able to register under the scheme. The Home Office expects to be able to agree with homeless
people a suitable place to be registered as their residence - presumably even if it is only a
railway arch. Those who move around frequently for work will be able to register their principal
residence without notifying each move./ppBut the draft regulations also set out in detail the
escalating series of fines for those who fail to keep their ID card register entry up to date or
fail to correct errors on it. /ppThe kind of details that must be provided within three months are
a change of address, a change of name perhaps because of marriage or by deed poll, a change of
nationality, a change of gender, or a significant change in an individual's face or their
fingerprints perhaps because of an accident./ppThe Home Office say they will not need to police
this aspect as it will soon become apparent when somebody tries, for example, to get on a plane
with a ID card/passport with an out of date address that does not match that the bank debit/credit
card they used to book the flight./ppThey say they may well find themselves not being allowed to
travel. Those who lose their ID Cards or have them stolen will have to report the loss within a
month./ppFines for failure to update the register start at pound;125 going up to pound;1,000 for
repeatedly failing to comply. As a civil penalty the bailiffs may be sent in to enforce
payment./ppThe shadow home secretary, Dominic Grieve, said the scheme was truly the worst of all
worlds - expensive, intrusive and unworkable. /pp"The home secretary has confirmed the worst
element of the scheme - a single, mammoth and highly vulnerable database exposing masses of our
personal details to criminal hackers. /pp"Worse still, she has magnified the scope for fraud by
allowing spot fines to be issued by email," he said./ppThe NO2ID campaign say that in just four
weeks in 2005, more than 10,000 people pledged online to refuse to register for an ID card. /pp"It
is possible that refusal could be made a crime but the government has shied away from that so far.
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Planet Ubuntu -
1 days ago
img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/keescook.png alt= pThere#8217;s this great CPU
feature called #8220;a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bitnx/a#8221; #8212; it protects your
computer from intrusion by blocking execution of memory regions that weren#8217;t expected to be
executable (i.e. stack/heap data). You really want this enabled. Unfortunately for you, it seems
some BIOSes default to disabling it. On Dell laptops, look under #8220;Security#8221; / #8220;CPU
XD Support#8221;: you want it enabled. In an American Megatrends BIOS, I found it under #8220;CPU
Features#8221; / #8220;Execute Disable Bit#8221;: you want it enabled./p pAs far as making use of
the CPU feature once it#8217;s not disabled in the BIOS, you#8217;re already using it if
you#8217;re running a 64bit kernel. And if you#8217;re using 32bit, you can start using it if you
install the code-server/code flavor of the 32bit kernel. As a bonus, you get to a
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all your physical RAM/a if you do this too (since -server#8217;s #8220;a
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_ExtensionPAE/a#8221; mode is the kernel mode
that allows #8220;nx#8221; to work). For Ubuntu Jaunty, I#8217;m hoping to get some element of the
system (installer? jockey?) to a
href=https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/use-pae-when-possiblemake the right kernel
selection/a for a given system./p pIf #8220;pae#8221; is in your /proc/cpuinfo flags:br / code pre
$ grep --color pae /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr strongpae/strong mce cx8 apic sep
mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall emnx/em lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr
lahf_lm /pre p/p/code(note the #8220;nx#8221; in there too, since my BIOS isn#8217;t set to disable
it)/p pThen you almost certainly want to use code-server/code kernel flavor:br / code pre sudo
apt-get install linux-server linux-restricted-modules-server /pre p/p/code/p
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The Allmusic Blog -
1 days and 1 hours ago
 Remember when Kanye West
threatened to make an album where he would bear his heartbroken soul, align with T-Pain, sing on
every song with the then inescapable Auto-Tune effect and, less problematically, lean on the
common element — the Roland TR-808 drum machine — of classics like “Make It
Last Forever,” “Posse on Broadway,” “808,” and “Bossy”?
It would have been a wreck, a case of an artist working through paralyzing heartache while loose
in a toy store. Except West wasn’t joking. Not only did he go through with it, but
Roc-A-Fella released the result in time for the 2008 Christmas shopping season. It was indeed a
wreck, if a kind of fascinating one, which helped make the material — voiced by someone who
could not really sing, whose substantial shortcomings were not made less obvious by a polarizing
studio device — seem a little less difficult on the ears.
In various spots across 808s &
Heartbreak, the constant flutter of West’s processed voice, along with a seldom
interrupted sluggish march of aching sounds, is enlivened by the disarming manner in which
despair and dejection are conveyed. When, in “Welcome to Heartbreak,” he
dispassionately recounts sitting alone on a flight, ahead of a laughing family, he makes first
class sound like Siberia; he’d swap lives with the father in an instant. The majority of
the lyrics, however, are directed at an ex who evidently did some damage; in
“RoboCop” alone, she gets compared to the antagonist in Misery and is called
a “spoiled little L.A. girl.” Earlier in the album, the number she did on him is
called “the coldest story ever told,” yet he admits he still fantasizes about her.
All the blocky drums, dragging strings, droning synths, and joyless pianos lead to a bleak set of
productions — even the synthetic calliope in “Heartless” is unnerved, and the
relative pep of “Paranoid” provides no respite, its bitter lyrics subverting a
boisterous beat. Several tracks have almost as much in common with irrefutably bleak post-punk
albums, such as New Order’s Movement and the Cure’s Pornography, as contemporary rap and R&B. (”Coldest Winter,”
where West longs for his departed mother, samples the most desolate song from the first
Tears for Fears album.) For anyone sifting through a broken relationship and self-letdown,
this could all be therapeutic. Otherwise, no matter its commendable fearlessness, the album is a
listless, bleary trudge along West’s permafrost.
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Autoblog -
1 days and 1 hours ago
pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/spyphotos/" rel="tag"Spy Photos/a, a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/economy/" rel="tag"Economy/a, a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hatchbacks/" rel="tag"Hatchbacks/a, a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mazda/" rel="tag"Mazda/a/pa
href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/spy-shots-2010-mazda3-5-door/1178000/"img vspace="4"
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align="center"emstrongsmallClick above for more "official spy shots" of the 2010 Mazda3
5-door/small/strong/embr //div br /The styling of the new a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/19/la-2008-2010-mazda3-shows-its-smiling-face/"Mazda3/a is
generally pretty good, with one notable and extremely controversial element: that happy-go-lucky
smiling face. Still, we've yet to get an official uncovered glimpse of the upcoming 5-door hatch,
so there may still be some surprises up Mazda's sleeve. Today we discovered the odd batch of
"official spy shots" straight from a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/spy-shots-2010-mazda3-5-door/1178016/"the horse's mouth/a,
Mazda that is. They show the upcoming hatchback as it a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/spy-shots-2010-mazda3-5-door/1177992/"sheepishly/a plays a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/spy-shots-2010-mazda3-5-door/1177994/"peek-a-boo/a with its
sedan sibling through some beautiful European scenery. From what we can tell, that blissfully
chipper visage is alive and well on the 5-door. The rest of the details, unfortunately, are still
pretty obscured by all that effective black vinyl clothing. br /br /When it finally is a
href="http://www.motivemag.com/pub/news/2010_Mazda3_Hatchback_Coming_to_Bologna_Motor_Show_in_a_Few_Weeks.shtml"debuted
at the 2008 Bologna Motorshow/a in Italy next month, the hatch's engine options should basically
mirror those of the sedan's, which means the U.S. will initially get both a 148-horsepower 2.0L and
a larger 167-horse 2.5L version of the MZR four cylinder engine. Could a Mazdaspeed3 be far behind?
br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a
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kottke.org -
1 days and 2 hours ago
In celebration of its semisesquicentennial1, Esquire magazine shares the seven
greatest stories ever told in the pages of their magazine and has published them online in
their entirety. (See also Esquire's 70 greatest
sentences.) Get a load of these initial paragraphs.
The School by C.J. Chivers:
Kazbek Misikov stared at the bomb hanging above his family. It was a simple device, a plastic
bucket packed with explosive paste, nails, and small metal balls. It weighed perhaps eight
pounds. The existence of this bomb had become a central focus of his life. If it exploded, Kazbek
knew, it would blast shrapnel into the heads of his wife and two sons, and into him as well,
killing them all.
The Falling Man by Tom
Junod:
In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he
appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very
well be flying. He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. He appears comfortable in the grip
of unimaginable motion. He does not appear intimidated by gravity's divine suction or by what
awaits him. His arms are by his side, only slightly outriggered. His left leg is bent at the
knee, almost casually. His white shirt, or jacket, or frock, is billowing free of his black
pants. His black high-tops are still on his feet. In all the other pictures, the people who did
what he did -- who jumped -- appear to be struggling against horrific discrepancies of scale.
They are made puny by the backdrop of the towers, which loom like colossi, and then by the event
itself. Some of them are shirtless; their shoes fly off as they flail and fall; they look
confused, as though trying to swim down the side of a mountain. The man in the picture, by
contrast, is perfectly vertical, and so is in accord with the lines of the buildings behind him.
He splits them, bisects them: Everything to the left of him in the picture is the North Tower;
everything to the right, the South. Though oblivious to the geometric balance he has achieved, he
is the essential element in the creation of a new flag, a banner composed entirely of steel bars
shining in the sun. Some people who look at the picture see stoicism, willpower, a portrait of
resignation; others see something else -- something discordant and therefore terrible: freedom.
There is something almost rebellious in the man's posture, as though once faced with the
inevitability of death, he decided to get on with it; as though he were a missile, a spear, bent
on attaining his own end. He is, fifteen seconds past 9:41 a.m. EST, the moment the picture is
taken, in the clutches of pure physics, accelerating at a rate of thirty-two feet per second
squared. He will soon be traveling at upwards of 150 miles per hour, and he is upside down. In
the picture, he is frozen; in his life outside the frame, he drops and keeps dropping until he
disappears.
What Do You Think of Ted
Williams Now? by Richard Ben Cramer:
Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those. There's a story about him I think of
now. This is not about baseball but fishing. He meant to be the best there, too. One day he says
to a Boston writer: "Ain't no one in heaven or earth ever knew more about fishing."
"Sure there is," says the scribe.
"Oh, yeah? Who?"
"Well, God made the fish."
"Yeah, awright," Ted says. "But you have to go pretty far back."
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
by Gay Talese:
Frank Sinatra, holding a glass of bourbon in one hand and a cigarette in the other, stood in a
dark corner of the bar between two attractive but fading blondes who sat waiting for him to say
something. But he said nothing; he had been silent during much of the evening, except now in this
private club in Beverly Hills he seemed even more distant, staring out through the smoke and
semidarkness into a large room beyond the bar where dozens of young couples sat huddled around
small tables or twisted in the center of the floor to the clamorous clang of folk-rock music
blaring from the stereo. The two blondes knew, as did Sinatra's four male friends who stood
nearby, that it was a bad idea to force conversation upon him when he was in this mood of sullen
silence, a mood that had hardly been uncommon during this first week of November, a month before
his fiftieth birthday.
M by John Sack:
One, two, three at the most weeks and they would give M company its orders -- they being those
dim Olympian entities who reputedly threw cards into an IBM machine or into a hat to determine
where each soldier in M would go next, which ones to stay there in the United States, which to
live softly in Europe, and which to fight and to die in Vietnam.
The Last American
Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes! by Tom Wolfe:
Ten o'clock Sunday morning in the hills of North Carolina. Cars, miles of cars, in every
direction, millions of cars, pastel cars, aqua green, aqua blue, aqua beige, aqua buff, aqua
dawn, aqua dusk, aqua aqua, aqua Malacca, Malacca lacquer, Cloud lavender, Assassin pink,
Rake-a-cheek raspberry. Nude Strand coral, Honest Thrill orange, and Baby Fawn Lust cream-colored
cars are all going to the stock-car races, and that old mothering north Carolina sun keeps
exploding off the windshields. Mother dog!
Superman Comes to the
Supermarket by Norman Mailer:
For once let us try to think about a political convention without losing ourselves in housing
projects of fact and issue. Politics has its virtues, all too many of them -- it would not rank
with baseball as a topic of conversation if it did not satisfy a great many things -- but one can
suspect that its secret appeal is close to nicotine. Smoking cigarettes insulates one from one's
life, one does not feel as much, often happily so, and politics quarantines one from history;
most of the people who nourish themselves in the political life are in the game not to make
history but to be diverted from the history which is being made.
[1] That's seventy five years, yo. Quattuordecennial is
the anniversarial name for fourteen years. Others. ↩
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freshmeat.net announcements (Unix) -
1 days and 2 hours ago
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hspace="10" vspace="10" Gmsh is an automatic 3D finite element grid generator with built-in CAD and
post-processing facilities. Its design goal is to provide a simple meshing tool for academic
problems with parametric input and advanced visualization capabilities. It is built around four
modules: geometry, mesh, solver, and post-processing. The specification of any input to these
modules is done either interactively using the graphical user interface (based on FLTK and OpenGL)
or in ASCII text files using Gmsh's own scripting language. hr / strongLicense:/strong GNU General
Public License (GPL) hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / This release improves the transfinite
algorithm, introduces a new uniform mesh refinement scheme, and fixes the high order meshing
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hspace="10" vspace="10" Gmsh is an automatic 3D finite element grid generator with built-in CAD and
post-processing facilities. Its design goal is to provide a simple meshing tool for academic
problems with parametric input and advanced visualization capabilities. It is built around four
modules: geometry, mesh, solver, and post-processing. The specification of any input to these
modules is done either interactively using the graphical user interface (based on FLTK and OpenGL)
or in ASCII text files using Gmsh's own scripting language. hr / strongLicense:/strong GNU General
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algorithm, introduces a new uniform mesh refinement scheme, and fixes the high order meshing
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CNET News.com -
1 days and 3 hours ago
Online gaming competition site, BringIt, has launched in open beta, but its gambling element may
cause some issues.
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Online gaming competition site, BringIt, has launched in open beta, but its gambling element may
cause some issues.
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Cinematical -
1 days and 4 hours ago
Look, I know the drill. If any element of the Twilight movie varies even
slightly from the way you pictured it in your head, then it is the worst film ever made and you
hate it and Catherine Hardwicke has ruined your
childhood. Or, alternatively, you've built up so much anticipation for the movie that you're going
to love love LOVE it no matter what, even if it's bad, you don't care, you refuse to listen to any
criticisms LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU. I know how it goes.
The book's most devoted fans are seeing the film anyway, so I guess I'm talking to everyone else --
those who haven't read the book, or who (like me) read it, mostly enjoyed it, then didn't give it
another thought. Is the Twilight movie of any use to those people? Or, as a friend asked
me, does it work purely as a vampire movie?
Oh, heavens, no. Noooooo. This is not a vampire movie. This is a somber teen romance that happens
to have some vampires in it. Little attempt is made to establish the mythology of the bloodsuckers,
and the supernatural elements are downplayed -- a wise move, since the special effects, when they
are necessary, are at about the level you'd expect from a movie that is more focused on romance
than sci-fi action.
All of which is in keeping with the tone of Stephenie Meyer's book, which is eight parts romance
and two parts action/fantasy. That's why it's been such a phenomenal success with women, and why
the male-dominated geek industry -- the Nerderati, if you will -- has been so skeptical of that
success. "What?" they scoff. "A super-popular vampire book that we, as men, AREN'T interested in?
Inconceivable! It must be terrible, and its popularity is probably being over-reported!"
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kottke.org -
1 days and 5 hours ago
Ecommr is a collection of interface and design elements from
ecommerce sites. I wish there were a bit more context around each screenshot (e.g. which
interface element is the focus and what's novel about it) but it's a good start.
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CiteULike: Borelli's watchlist -
1 days and 6 hours ago
iNature (12 November 2008)/ibr /br /Crosstalk between the oestrogen receptor (ER) and ERBB2/HER-2
pathways has long been implicated in breast cancer aetiology and drug response, yet no direct
connection at a transcriptional level has been shown. Here we show that oestrogen-ER and
tamoxifen-ER complexes directly repress ERBB2 transcription by means of a cis-regulatory element
within the ERBB2 gene in human cell lines. We implicate the paired box 2 gene product (PAX2), in a
previously unrecognized role, as a crucial mediator of ER repression of ERBB2 by the anti-cancer
drug tamoxifen. We show that PAX2 and the ER co-activator AIB-1/SRC-3 compete for binding and
regulation of ERBB2 transcription, the outcome of which determines tamoxifen response in breast
cancer cells. The repression of ERBB2 by ER-PAX2 links these two breast cancer subtypes and
suggests that aggressive ERBB2-positive tumours can originate from ER-positive luminal tumours by
circumventing this repressive mechanism. These data provide mechanistic insight into the molecular
basis of endocrine resistance in breast cancer.
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Autoblog -
1 days and 7 hours ago
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/On display at this year's a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/LA-Auto-Show/"LA Auto Show/a is
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at a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/11/19/la-2008-nissan-altima-hot-rod-hybrid/"Autoblog
Green/a. The car was first released at the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/SEMA/"SEMA/a
Show in Las Vegas, but the LA crowd is really more up its alley. This Altima is a direct result of
the team at Braille Battery pairing up with Nissan North America and Universal Technical Institute.
The "Hot Rod Hybrid," as it's called, is a construction aimed at competing in the new
hybrid/electric class of the Redline Time Attack series. There are also plans to give it a run in
the 2009 Cannonball Run/One Lap of America event. We know the car will be in good hands, too.
Driver Blake Fuller is experienced with both front- and rear-wheel-drive vehicles, as exemplified
by his finishes in the Pike's Peak hill climb and Formula D drifting events. br /br /a
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src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/015111908_opt.jpg" alt="" //aThe Braille
Battery Nissan Altima Hybrid is constructed with great attention to detail. The green eco-friendly
DuPont paint initially catches your eye, but the best part can be found once the car passes by you.
The exhaust outlets are formed out of leaf silhouettes. No environmentally conscious element on
this vehicle is left unturned, even the race seats are a new product from Sparco containing
recycled materials. The roof is also topped with battery recharging solar cells. To help the car be
competitive on the racetrack, the internal combustion engine is tuned to run on E85 ethanol while
being boosted by a Vortech electric supercharger. All in all, it is an intriguing experiment. We
look forward to seeing how the car fairs under the wear and tear of many Time Attack battles. More
details can be found in the press release after the jump. Also be sure to take a gander at the
gallery below for SEMA shots provided by Braille Battery, along with those we captured in LA.br /br
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ScottGu's Blog -
1 days and 11 hours ago
font size="2" face="arial" pLast month I blogged about a target="_blank"
href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft.aspx"how Microsoft is
extending support for jQuery/a.#160; Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery
team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer
2008 Express (which is free).#160; This is now available to download and use./p h3Steps to Enable
jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008/h3 pTo enable intellisense completion for jQuery within VS you'll
want to follow three steps:/p pustrongStep 1: Install VS 2008 SP1/strong/u/p pVS 2008 SP1 adds
richer JavaScript intellisense support to Visual Studio, and adds code completion support for a
broad range of JavaScript libraries. /p pYou can download VS 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008
Express SP1 a target="_blank" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/cc533448.aspx"here/a./p
pstronguStep 2: Install VS 2008 Patch KB958502 to Support quot;-vsdoc.jsquot; Intellisense
Files/u/strong/p pTwo weeks ago we shipped a patch that you can apply to VS 2008 SP1 and VWD 2008
Express SP1 that causes Visual Studio to check for the presence of an optional quot;-vsdoc.jsquot;
file when a JavaScript library is referenced, and if present to use this to drive the JavaScript
intellisense engine./p pThese annotated quot;-vsdoc.jsquot; files can include XML comments that
provide help documentation for JavaScript methods, as well as additional code intellisense hints
for dynamic JavaScript signatures that cannot automatically be inferred.#160; You can learn more
about this patch a target="_blank"
href="http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/11/07/hotfix-to-enable-vsdoc-js-intellisense-doc-files-is-now-available.aspx"here/a.#160;
You can download it for free a target="_blank"
href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB958502/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1736"here/a./p
pstronguStep 3: Download the jQuery-vsdoc.js file/u/strong/p pWe've worked with the jQuery team to
put together a jQuery-vsdoc.js file that provides help comments and support for JavaScript
intellisense on chained jQuery selector methods.#160; You can download both jQuery and the
jQuery-vsdoc file from the a target="_blank"
href="http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#Download_jQuery"official download page/a on the
jQuery.com site:/p pimg src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step1.png" / /p pSave the
jquery-vsdoc.js file next to your jquery.js file in your project (and make sure its naming prefix
matches the jquery file name):/p pimg src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step2.png" /
/p pYou can then reference the standard jquery file with an html lt;script/gt; element like so:/p
pimg src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step3.png" / /p pOr alternatively reference it
using the lt;asp:scriptmanager/gt; control, or by adding a /// lt;reference/gt; comment at the top
of a standalone .js file.#160; /p pWhen you do this VS will now look for a -vsdoc.js file in the
same directory as the script file you are referencing, and if found will use it for help and
intellisense.#160; The annotated /p pFor example, we could use jQuery to make a JSON based get
request, and get intellisense for the method (hanging off of $.):/p pimg
src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step4.png" / /p pAs well as help/intellisense for
the $.getJSON() method's parameters:/p pimg
src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step5.png" /#160;/p pThe intellisense will continue
to work if you nest a callback function within the method call.#160; For example, we might want to
iterate over each JSON object returned from the server:/p pimg
src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step6.png" / /p pAnd for each of the items we could
execute another nested callback function:/p pimg
src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step7.png" / /p pWe could use the each callback
function to dynamically append a new image to a list (the image src attribute will point to the URL
of the returned JSON media image):/p pimg
src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step8.png" / /p pAnd on each dynamically created
image we could wire-up a click event handler so that when it is pressed it will disappear via an
animation:/p pimg src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step10.png" / /p pNotice how the
jQuery intellisense works cleanly at each level of our code.#160; /p h3JavaScript Intellisense Tips
and Tricks/h3 pJeff King from the Web Tools team a target="_blank"
href="http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/11/18/jscript-intellisense-faq.aspx"wrote up a
great post/a earlier this week that answers a number of common questions about how JavaScript
intellisense works with VS 2008.#160; I highly recommend reading it./p pOne trick he talks about
which I'll show here is a technique you can use when you want to have JavaScript intellisense work
within user-controls/partials (.ascx files).#160; Often you don't want to include a JavaScript
library lt;script src=quot;quot;/gt; reference#160; within these files, and instead have this live
on the master page or content page the user control is used within.#160; The problem of course when
you do this is that by default VS has no way of knowing that this script is available within the
user control - and so won't provide intellisense of it for you./p pOne way you can enable this is
by adding the lt;script src=quot;quot;/gt; element to your user control, but then surround it with
a server-side lt;% if %gt; block that always evaluates to false at runtime:/p pimg
src="http://www.scottgu.com/blogposts/jquerynov/step11.png" / /p pAt runtime ASP.NET will never
render this script tag (since it is wrapped in an if block that is always false).#160; However, VS
emwill/em evaluate the lt;script/gt; tag and provide intellisense for it within the
user-control.#160; A useful technique to use for scenarios like the user control one.#160; Jeff has
even more details in his a target="_blank"
href="http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/11/18/jscript-intellisense-faq.aspx"FAQ post/a
as well as his a target="_blank"
href="http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/10/28/rich-intellisense-for-jquery.aspx"original
jQuery intellisense post/a.#160; Rick Strahl also has a good post about using jQuery intellisense a
target="_blank" href="http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/536756.aspx"here/a./p h3More
Information/h3 pTo learn more about jQuery, I recommend watching Stephen Walther's a
target="_blank" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC31/"ASP.NET and jQuery/a PDC talk. a
target="_blank"
href="http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/archive/2008/10/29/jquery-and-asp-net-ajax-demo-code.aspx"Click
here/a to download his code samples and powerpoint presentation./p pRick Strahl also has a really
nice a href="http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/jQuery/default.aspx"Introduction to jQuery/a
article that talks about using jQuery with ASP.NET.#160; Karl Seguin has two nice jQuery primer
posts a target="_blank"
href="http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ajax/JQuery-Primer-Part-1.aspx"here/a and a
target="_blank" href="http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ajax/JQuery-Primer-Part-2.aspx"here/a that
provide shorter overviews of some of the basics of how to use jQuery.#160; /p pI also highly
recommend the a target="_blank"
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933988355/102-4745100-5076967?ie=UTF8amp;tag=scoblo04-20amp;linkCode=xm2amp;camp=1789amp;creativeASIN=1933988355"jQuery
in Action/a book./p pHope this helps,/p pScott/p /fontimg
src="http://weblogs.asp.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6749212" width="1" height="1"
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TechCrunch -
1 days and 20 hours ago
When we first wrote about Genwi a year ago, it
was asocial feed
reader with content feeds that could be organized by different categories (blogs, news,
videos, music, podcasts) and shared with your friends. Today, it is relaunching with a completely
new design that takes into account what your friends are doing across the Web as well.
You can think of Genwi as a combination of Google Reader and FriendFeed with sophisticated
search, auto-categorization, and filtering features. As before, Genwi is a super RSS feed reader.
It suggests feeds by category, or you can add your own (via search or by importing an OPML file
from another reader). You can also invite your friends by giving Genwi permission to match its
members to your contacts in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn, AOL, Outlook and elsewhere (although it
does not have Facebook integration yet).
Once you do that, you can track your the social activity of your friends across the Web, just
like on FriendFeed. Anytime a contact does something on Twitter, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, or other
social media sites, it appears on Genwi. (The other supported services are Vimeo, Blogger,
Wordpress, Tumblr, Pownce, Yelp, Upcoming, Last.fm, iLike, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia,
Jaiku,Webshots, Picasa, Smugmug, Zoomr, Furl, Reddit, Mixx, and Diigo).
So far, so what. But Genwi has some interesting features that could push the ball forward in the
Web filtering/lifestreaming game. Genwi treats the Web as a collection of information objects. An
object can be a blog post, a video, a streaming song, a photo, a Tweet, a Digg. Genwi lets you
grab the objects you care about either directly through RSS feeds or indirectly by paying
attention to what your friends do and presents them all in a manageable, personalized, searchable
feed. Explains Genwi co-founder Killian P. McKiernan:
At first a web page was a published document. It has evolved to a collection of
objects—wading through all of these objects by searching and loading pages may
not be the most efficient way to consume them. It might be better to bring in all the objects
that matter to you and create a context enabling you to filter and directly consume what is most
interesting.
Once all the objects are ingested into Genwi, it starts to do some interesting things with them.
Each post/video/song/object can be filtered by type and category, as well as by most popular,
highest rated, and most recent. They can be rated, shared, or added as a favorite. All of your
friends favorites show up in your wire (which is what Genwi calls your personal super feed). The
most popular items are available in a public wire, which can also be sorted in various ways. When
you search for things, favorite items across the network come up top, adding an element of social
rank to the searches.
There are other features that noteworthy as well. You can follow other people’s wires
without having to “friend” them. If you wan to send a “quick post” to all
your friends, it will appear Twitter-like in all of their feeds (FriendFeed has something similar
called “messages”). It handles all sorts of media quite adeptly. And it does a better
job of showing what’s popular on the service in a very granular fashion.
On the downside, the site takes longer to load than FriendFeed and is not quite as responsive.
But it has a few tricks worth checking out.
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Guardian Unlimited -
1 days and 21 hours ago
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width="1" height="1" //divpCorby, Crawley and Croydon are bidding to join Cambridge as university
towns, it was announced yesterday. Basildon, Basingstoke, Dudley and Stockport are also among 27
areas in England bidding for funding to launch new higher education (HE) centres, said the
universities secretary John Denham. They are among the first places to apply to take part in the
government's "university challenge" initiative, launched in March./ppDenham said the project would
help regions hit by the recession by providing education and regeneration in rural areas as well as
cities. Opposition MPs accused the government of "knocking up" the idea to compensate areas which
had been earmarked for casinos but missed out after the project was scaled back at the beginning of
the year. /ppPartnerships of regional development agencies, local authorities and colleges have put
together bids for the universities centres, which will teach a range of degrees but fall short of
being standalone universities because they will not have their own degree-awarding powers or privy
council approval. /ppUniversities in neighbouring areas will be a crucial element in the
partnerships accrediting the degrees. The government wants 20 new higher education centres planned
within the next six years. The new centres could provide study places for up to 10,000
students./ppMinisters want the centres to open up the chance to study for a degree for people who
would not have given much thought to a degree previously. According to economists, every extra job
a university creates is matched by another elsewhere in the economy, such as in restaurants and
bars, to cater for the student population./ppBut Martin Freedman, head of pay, conditions and
pensions at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: "Some of the 27 towns interested in
setting up higher education centres already have successful further education colleges. We don't
want these colleges and new universities to compete for students at each other's expense./pp"In the
light of the government's cap on the number of extra HE students, this proposed university
expansion raises questions about how additional universities can function if limits are placed on
the number of students?"/ppUniversities are already struggling to fill their places after ministers
were forced to cut the numbers funded to go to higher education next year. Last month, Denham froze
additional student numbers after admitting the government had botched its estimates for student
grants and could no longer afford its support package./ph2University hopefuls/h2pAreas bidding to
run universities: Accrington, Basildon, Basingstoke, Corby/Kettering, Crawley, Croydon, Doncaster,
Dudley, Ebbsfleet, Halifax, Havering, Herefordshire, King's Lynn, Milton Keynes, Rochdale,
Rotherham, Sandwell, Scarborough, Shropshire, Somerset, Stratford Island, Stockport, Swindon,
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