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AV-Compariatives: A site comparing antivirus programs

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Here's a great site with reviews and lots of useful information about antivirus programs.

On this site you will find independent comparatives of Anti-Virus software. All products listed in our comparatives are already a selection of some very good anti-virus products. In order to get tested by us, companies must fulfill various conditions and minimum requirements. To stay informed about current tests and releases, please also have a look to our Weblog.
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If you plan to buy an Anti-Virus, please visit the vendor's site and evaluate their software by downloading a trial version, as there are also many other features (e.g. firewall, behaviorblocker, etc.) and important things (e.g. compatibility, graphical user interface, language, price, etc.) for an Anti-Virus that you should evaluate by yourself. Even if quite important, the data provided in the test reports on this site are just some aspects that you should consider when buying Anti-Virus software. The results of our old survey can be found here...

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

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Why Small Programs Can Take Years To Complete

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Here's a review of Dreaming in Code and an interesting discussion of some of the factors that can make finishing programs take far longer than they otherwise might.

One way to look at Salon co-founder Scott Rosenberg's new book, "Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software," is as an attempt to tell the story of a specific software development project -- the effort by industry legend Mitch Kapor and a band of ace programmers to create Chandler, a kind of turbo-powered personal information management program that would dazzle users with its ability to enhance their productivity...

Article here: http://www.salon.com.../2007/02/03/leonard/

And read an excerpt of the book here: https://www.donation...index.php?topic=7322


The MicroISV Show: A Show on Small Software Businesses

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Micro-ISV stands for "micro Independent Software Vendor", which is basically just a fancy name for a tiny software (shareware) company (usually consisting of just 1 or 2 people).

They are already up to show #10:

Joining Michael Lehman as co-host of The MicroISV Show is Bob Walsh, Managing Director of Safari Software (www.safarisoftware.com), author of "MicroISV: From Vision to Reality", author of the soon to be published "Clear Blogging", and proprietor of 3 websites which are useful to the MicroISV community: www.mymicroisv.com, www.todoorelse.com and www.clearblogging.com.

In this first collaboration, Michael and Bob interview former MicroISV and successful software entrepreneur, Joel Spolsky (http://www.joelonsof...are.com/AboutMe.html), co-founder of Fog Creek software, prolific blogger and host of the Joel on Software forums including one on the Business of Software (http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz) on which many MicroISVs ask and answer critical questions about starting and staying in the software business.  Bob Walsh along with Eric Sink are the "hosts" of the BoS forum...

http://channel9.msdn...ws/The_MicroISV_Show


For Programmers: The wxAUI Library

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wxAUI is an open-source advanced user interface library that aims to make it easy to implement "cutting-edge" interface usability and design features for wxWidgets applications.

I was poking around this morning looking at various bits of Python stuff and I came across wxPython's wrapper around wx.aui. I am a fan of Eclipse RCP and this looks like an attempt to build something similar via wxWidgets. wxAUI uses the concept of a "perspective" in a manner similar to RCP. There are panels which can easily be dragged and repositioned. I'm going to try using it on one of my smaller apps.

WxAUI page: http://www.kirix.com...aui/about-wxaui.html
See also: wxDockIt.



Little Setup Builder: Mini-Review

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Little Setup Builder (hereon LSB) is a free program to create installers for software and any other computer product. It features:
  • Multi-Language Installers
  • Easy Customization of Text/Images/Features
  • The Ability To Create a Complex Installer, in a easy-to-use interface
  • Choose Groups and Categories for Files
  • Create Shortcuts
  • Ability to Customize Different Installer Types (Regular/Minimum/Custom/Etc...)
  • Add to Add/Remove Programs
  • Checks for Overwrites and Updates (Previous Versions of Your Product) before Installing
  • Check Windows Version

Continue reading the full mini-review..


A new kind of search: guided search

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Well.. Here's www.ChaCha.com. They explore a new kind of search, based on chating with someone and that someone finding you search results?
I think it's just dumb, isn't useful at all but... It's fun!!  ;D
Just type your search and press "search with guide".

[url=http://www.chacha.com]chacha.com


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