Today Playboy is going freemium with shots of the HP marketing consultant at the center of the Mark Hurd situation, Jodie Fisher , who evidently posed for 16 pictures, some of which were featured in the September, 1980 issue feature called Girls of the Southwest Conference.  (Tidbit:  if you look at the cover, you can see that issue cost $2.75 in 1980 dollars.)  There are several stories in the media covering Playboy’s move.

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If Playboy Were on MarkLogic, The Jodie Fisher Shots Would Have Been Up a Week Ago

Microsoft has released a patch for faster Visual Studio 2010 performance on Windows XP, Vista & 2003 platforms. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981741…( read more )

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VS 2010 Software Update for Improved Performance on Vista, Win 2003 & XP

This post is in response to this story in today’s Mercury News:  Actress’s Role At HP Called Puzzling . (That’s the print title, the online title is different, probably for SEO reasons.) While there are many things puzzling about the situation at HP, the role they describe for Jodie Fisher is not:  it’s called wingman .

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Fisher Role at HP called “Puzzling” by the Mercury News; Not to Me

Just a quick post to highlight some interesting facts from Fenwick & West’s (F&W’s) quarterly Silicon Valley venture capital survey . Valuations are up.  Up-rounds beat down rounds 55% to 27%, with flat rounds making up the difference.  F&W’s venture capital barometer showed an average price increase of 30%.

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Highlights from the Fenwick & West Venture Trends Report

Pioneering a new market and introducing an innovative technology in the process invariably results in customer confusion, usually driven by a fairly predictable “I’ve never seen one of those before” reaction: What is a relational database and why would I need one when IMS is doing just fine? What is a business intelligence tool anyway why would I need it in addition to ReportSmith?

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Confusion Is The Enemy and Inconsistency is His Ally

As you might know configuration settings for IIS 7 and above are stored in multiple XML configuration files (alike of ASP.NET), replacing the metabase store. The online reference for these config files are here ( http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference )….( read more )

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IIS v7 & v7.5 Configuration File Reference

It was John Snelson who told me about the ‘ XQuery 1.0 Grammar Test Page’ which presents a Java Applet that will parse your XQuery or convert it into XQueryX. For those people dipping their toe in the XQueryX waters then this is a better place to start than stumbling around using oXygen and the XQueryX schema like I did initially. I also found ‘ XQ2XML: XML syntaxes for XQuery’ by David Carlisle I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet but it may prove useful too

Originally posted here:
A quick straw poll – XQueryX have you or are you
using it?

Just a quick question, if I may, Have you or are you using XQueryX? I’ve noticed that the XQueryX recommendation has been updated as part of the XQuery 1.1 work and I’m interested in knowing if people are using XQueryX, you don’t have to say why or what for, I just want to gauge how many people are using it.

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A quick straw pole – XQueryX have you or are you
using it?

Hurts me every time I write an XML file as well !!! David A Lee On Jul 31, 2010, at 1:52 AM, Daniela Florescu wrote: > > > > > > > It could be done with an extra-grammatical disambiguation rule not unlike many of the rules we already have: if the next thing after the “> ” at the end of a direct constructor is immediately followed by “

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Comma problem Re: ANSWERS to "What’s wrong
with XQuery" question

> > > > It could be done with an extra-grammatical disambiguation rule not > unlike many of the rules we already have: if the next thing after > the “> ” at the end of a direct constructor is immediately followed > by “

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Comma problem Re: ANSWERS to
"What’s wrong with XQuery" question