Beginnercode.com

I couldn’t remember a bit of dev information, so I went to google it up for some quick reference. To my immediate surprise was a Google web Page with a virus warning!

Of course, at first I thought it was a querry processing problem, so I hit it up again. After deciding to actually examine and read the warning, it was stating that I was infected or trying to do a nono.

I tried to google the google error, and didn’t find much other than other confused users with the same question. Most of which, in a nutshell, claimed that their antivirus was up to date, and thier machines were clean. So I Began to investigate and here’s what I found…

Runnning Firefox 1.5 (of which I just upgraded last week), and using the querry phrase:
textarea line break -javascript php I would receive the error.

In my searching I came across 2 items of interest. First I found a link http://www.google/ie. This link DID allow me to use that querry, but it just listed the results without a summary. Kind of interesting.

Secondly, when I tried the querry in the google home page using Internet Explorer version 7.05.112.0 the querry was sent right through.

This leads me to believe that Firefox is the ‘culprit’ in this. But is it? Does firefox have some type of embeded wicked code? OR is it possible that Google is playing favorites? OR is it simply that firefox has some new technology that is triggering the alarm from google?

You are definately welcome to provide feedback, suggestions, or any other similar findings you have regarding this topic!

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So I went to check on a referrer that came to beginnercode.com and it took me to an interesting place. To the logon screen of the new Windows Live Mail Beta. Otherwise dubbed code word: Kahuna

According to the myspaceds blog of the hotmail team, it has enhanced security, improved searching, spellcheck as you type, a scrollable message and contact list, resizeable panes, Improved Error Message Discoverability, Easier to send mail when you don’t know email address, Support for browsers other than IE6 & higher, Empty Junk Mail Folder or Deleted Items Folder with one click, and Print Messages.

From the screenshots, it looks like a nice outlook feel to it (for those of us who use Outlook)

I find it interesting that they are using ajax, but I am more pleased about the support for other browsers. Maybe they are recognizing that users who use other software still use Microsoft products, and don’t have to be loyalists?

Looks like the Google heat is definatley pressing the Market. I can’t wait to try this one out for myself. Im looking forward to it.

Comment? Suggestions?

Live Mail Beta, Microsoft, hotmail, Kahuna

On November 17th I attended the Microsoft SQL server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Launch event in Green Bay WI.

It was a full day event. There were in my estimation about 200-250 people there.

There were the usual handful of vendors peddling their products and services, as well as their drawings (of which I always look forward to some good prizes!).

I haven’t done any programming in asp or vb. So I was interested what it could do for me.

The hotel casino had its spread of coffee, pastries, soda, juice and water for the taking. Of which I had none. The last thing I wanted to do was fall asleep.

The first session (morning – lunch) was about SQL server. Most of which I know nothing about. I would agree with my friend TDavid that it seemed geared toward large companies who have huge databases and infrastructure. The speaker, Kevin, did a pretty good job. He has a blog at http://blogs.technet.com/kevinremde

I was impressed with the reporting tools. What I did not know was that for much SQL database management that the database actually gets taken offline. With the 05 version, you can do what you need to do and it remains online(though not accessable). Including making upgrades to the server software. When you bring it back online, it will catch itself up and resynch to any other servers you have setup be it local, or remote. It was also nice to hear that XML is a 1st class data type in SQL.

When the morning session was finished, we were able to get the carrot dangled before us…. a brand new copy of SQL server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 with 1 license key. Cool!…

I had chatted a bit with a guy I met in the morning session. I found he doesn’t live too far from me. Someday I’d like to get together with him again so we could talk shop. He was more familiar with asp. The 2 of us headed over to the casino buffet. $8 for lunch. I was being careful not to overeat. Ever eat a whole bunch of food, and try to sit for 3.5 hours listening to someone talk? ZZZzz…

Ok the second session was on the Visual Studio 2005. Before the session began we watched a video promoting thecoderoom.com, an ‘Experimental’ site where they throw some programmers in a room and assign them a project. You can watch it online, as they plan using the tools in the seminar.

Finally, some programming! His name is Jacob Cynamon. He started the session off by explaining how to get the IE7 Beta version off of one of our promo disks.

Why? Well apparently the team that put his disk together, forgot to tell him that it included a certificate that expired in October 05. So he showed us to changed the system date on our pc(the clock in the taskbar) back a few months so the program would install.

What I do like about the studio suite is the drag and drop object orientation. Really cool how you can change the properties, and have objects like login and registration forms drag/droppable. Ok cool, a wysiwyg! Seriously bloated wysiwyg, to me anyhow.

I was trying to be objectionable, and still havn’t had the time to give it a fair shake yet. At one point Jacob brought up the point that visual studio has a new built in feature called a config page. In this page you can set a lot of the applications variables and procedures. Now in my mind, I was thinking “ok, a config page? this is exciting?”. From that point on, every thing I was being shown could be done in php as well. I’m not knocking it, but the only thing I found to be real positive was the drag and drop, not too much need for design, objects. You can make fairly easy template and template systems.

I must say my interest was captivated for the afternoon. After the session, there were the prize drawings, of which I didn’t win anything. Oh well. Of course the true benifit, was that after the 2nd session, we got to get in line for our free SQL/Studio 05 software AGAIN!

What I can say, is thank you for the free software. Now I can try to play and experiment with a new language.

SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, VS 2005 Launch Tour

From InternetWeek –

Google Inc. on Wednesday was sued by a major publishing association for digitizing library books without the permissions of copyright holders, the second such suit filed against the search engine giant

I didn’t even know about Google Print(Still in Beta) until I read this. So I went and checked it out. It pretty much looks and works like the google web search, except it searches for books.

I thought I would give it a run. I typed in ‘cats’. The usual list pops up including a color photo of the front cover of each book. I randomly chose a book about why cats paint. (Didn’t know they could). From there I could see a few pages. Table of contents, and a couple of other pages. From there you could search even deeper into the book. I typed in ‘color’. I was presented with about 10 links to several pages within the book. After being prompted to login with my google account, each link would show me a page, and a page or 2 forward or backward in the book. I’m not sure how far is too far with copyrighted content.

They do reference the author, the publisher, and a few links to where one could buy the book. I can only imagine that they have the permission of the publishers and authors. It is duly noted on this page:

Library books still in copyright: For books that we have scanned from a library which are still in copyright, you will only be able to view the bibliographic information and a few short sentences of text around your search term.

I seriously doubt that google wouldn’t have covered those bases before they attempted this endeavor.

I wrote an entry about a similar service called codefetch{ that allows you to search for books on programming code. These also would show a few excerpts of each authors pages. (A handy tool BTW!).

If anything you would think authors might even persue google, to plan how and what content would be shown. What a great way to advertise, and get books sold!

I’m thinking we haven’t seen the end of this topic, or copyright rules and laws.

google, google print, lawsuit, publisher, books, internet