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I've had a hate-hate relationship with Hummingbird recently. But, I have to say that they've risen to the occasion. They've resolved the 'deal breaker' issue we had with the search engine. The default installation does not index punctuation marks. This is death in the legal environment. I'm actually surprised more people haven't raised hell over it.
Anyway they've resolved the problem. We still have an issue with multiple parenthetic statements combined with the
or keywords. We'd like to engine to parse like westlaw, but they need to do development work to do so....
Yes, there's actually useful stuff on Microsoft's site.
326338 - HOW TO: Display Hierarchical Data by Using Nested Repeater Controls and Visual Basic .NET is a very clean, quick example. There's a sister example for c# as well...
We purchased the
Hyundai HY-206 about six weeks ago. It worked well for a couple weeks, but now we're having major problems keeping it running correctly. It garbles some of the sound, stops for no reason (goes dead - no apparent power). There's no way of telling how charged the battery is.
It's frustrating because the manual is barely intelligible. Also there's no support site or phone number.... I'm continuing to look.
15 Seconds : Creating a Popup Date Picker a very nice example. I converted the code to vb.net and it works extremely well.
Channel 9 launches today. Some interesting content. I applaud the steps toward visibility, transparency what have you. I'm sure that they'll be some really interesting content for someone like me.
A thought though... Not all brilliant people should be featured as 'on-screen' talent. Just the director in me speaking.
WYSKster API's due soon
Rick has brought to the world's attention the
US Government announcement of Wyskster. I was particularly impressed that the initiative isn't costing any of my hard earned taxpayer moneys.
I did a little research and learned a little more about WYSkster. The management team was able to put me in touch with Rascheed Pitwaaller in Bangalor. Of course he had to be careful about what his team was doing, but It looks like they've done an awesome job.
He even hinted that they'll be releasing a soap interface so developers can integrate other applications easily. Imagine how much our lives will be improved when we order a book from Amazon and a window comes up and shows us how many birthdays and anniversaries we've missed (for everyone we've ever known). I understand that a firm in the North Pole is developing a 'Naughty or Nice' application to be used to leverage WYSKster's ability to track the web behavior of little children. Way cool..
