Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Where do you look

...okay, it's been almost a year and a half since Microsoft rolled out Bing and told us that it was better than Google because they were calling it a "decision engine."

I've used it, read a bit about it, and I still don't see significant difference, and certainly very little of significant value to me out here.

What I do see is that it's much better for Microsoft (and notably, its advertisers) if I search at Bing.  Good for you guys!

Can anyone tell me an actual practical benefit that I might see as a user of Bing rather than as a user of Google for searches? (I've read the Wikipedia and the Microsoft agit-prop on the matter. I'm looking for something that I can tell my grandmother about it -- something that benefits us!)

Sunday, March 27, 2011

How do YOU view?

...if you've never taken a leisure day to explore the richness that Second Life has to offer, you should do that as soon as you can. Some myths you can ignore.

Reduce to Dashboard

When developers use DataWeave, they often come to rely on the reduce() function to fill in any gaps left by the standard Core library. Altho...