CULLY Technologies blog now takes comments!

, May 29, 2005

I hope I know what I’m doing. I’ve added the ability for my blog to accept comments. This opens me up to criticism, I guess. I’m hoping that it will be interesting to get some feedback on what I’m posting on the web site. Who knows. Perhaps no one reads my ramblings anyway. I’ll use [...]


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New Search Engines Getting More Specific

, May 27, 2005

MSN and AOL are trying to beat Google at it’s game. As this gets more and more difficult, other search engines are starting to pop up that will more specifically solve a problem. Beating the generic search engines by doing a specific task better than the huge generic search engines could. One that I’m very [...]


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How nerdy are you?

, May 24, 2005

How nerdy am I? Sheesh! I didn’t think I’d score *THAT* high! I need to get out more … and buy computer parts. <g> Of course, I do hand code my html entries into this blog and I know the codes for the less-than and greater-than symbols. To that end, I build this blog software [...]


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Henzenwerke books get reviewed …

, May 20, 2005

Tracey Donvito reviews the “The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org” by Benjamin Horst over on the Mad Penguin Dot Org site. The small publishing company Hentzenwerke focuses their books on two areas: the migration from Windows to Linux, and OpenOffice.org. They have already published three books on OOo, and are becoming the go-to publisher for OOo [...]


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Save your .NET projects by converting to VFP

, May 19, 2005

Pretty funny. The AFUG group had Rick Schummer down to speak and he turned me onto this site. William Sanders has set up this site: http://www.dotnetconversions.com. Most of the site isn’t working at the time of this writing but I hope to see him finish the site. I’ve got to think that this is in [...]


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Video campaign to spread the word on Firefox

, May 13, 2005

These videos are spreading over the web like … erm … fire. Pretty funny. http://funnyfox.org/


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Splosky on Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

, May 12, 2005

I have often had spirited discussions about Hungarian notation with fellow programmers. Well, here is an interesting article that discusses a lot about coding, coding in safe ways, and ultimately Hungarian notation. Something that I didn’t know is that there were two types of Hungarian notation: Apps Hungarian and Systems Hungarian. It’s the Systems Hungarian [...]


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Windows Mobile 5.0 Revealed, Pocket PC and Smartphone Retired

, May 11, 2005

Click here for the AP article Microsoft Unveils New Windows Mobile. Ouch #1: It also marks another change of course in Microsoft’s long-evolving strategy to extend the dominance of its Windows computer platform to mobile devices. Ouch #2: The updated version of Mobile Windows also serves as another example of Microsoft seeking to barge into [...]


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