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Já passei a minha fase de jovem inconsciente, com quantidades industriais de pirataria e gigas de downloads da Internet. Há já algum tempo, faço questão de adquirir o software que necessito, assim como música ou vídeo, apesar de ser da opinião que não faz sentido adquirir filmes ou séries que estão de momento a passar na TV. No final das contas, já se paga o serviço, que por sua vez, já pagou a obra. Chego à conclusão que a nível de arte (passível de duplicação) existe a ideia, e talvez por parte das companhias e não pelos artistas, que os ganhos devem ser astronómicos e vitalícios. No entanto, acho que já estou a entrar em terreno perigoso e discutível.

Zend Framework Book: Surviving The Deep End is a free book still in development. The objective is to tutor the user in a learn as you go manner.

It all started out from a series of posts entitled An Example Zend Framework Blog, which were very useful for many users starting on Zend Framework. The idea of changing those posts into a book came up, which was a very good one!

The book came to life and the progress of it can be followed here Zend Framework Book: Surviving The Deep End. The second chapter just made it’s way into the book.

Had to setup Merge Replication between SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server Compact, here's the result on a video for reference.

Anyway, don't forget all the pre-requisites, database, sql server tools, iis, etc.

You can get perceptible quality by following "vimeo" link and downloading the original.

Enjoy!

The Book Depository - Homepage - Cheap books with free delivery worldwide "all books for all people"

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A friend just brought this site to my attention The Book Depository. It's an online book store with a nice feature, they have free shipping worldwide and if you care to notice, the prices are also very competitive. Comparing one of the books i recently bought from Wook.pt with The Book Depository, it's half the price.

Check it out! My future acquisitions will sure come from The Book Depository.

Why didn't someone told me about this earlier :/

Oh! Also you can follow it on twitter http://twitter.com/bookdepository. Enjoy!

CUPS-PDF Package for Mac OS X | codepoetry

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Tonight the lifesaver was CUPS-PDF for Mac. I was creating some diagrams in a Java application and needed to get them printed. In the print menu there wasn't the usual "Save to PDF" i like so much.

One thing i use in Linux if cups-pdf. It does the exact same thing a virtual pdf printer does. So i rushed to look into the config files on the Mac, thinking i could do the same. It missed the cups-pdf module.

Trying to get the stuff done, a quick web search revealed CUPS-PDF for Mac. Everything went smooth, just download, install and go to your printer setup in System Preferences. Pretty easy.

The printed pdfs end up in the Desktop in a folder called cups-pfd (all is automatic). If a urge to change its place, takes over you, it can be configured under /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf.

Diagrams printed, off to bed! Thank you www.codepoetry.net! :)

Two interesting projects andLinux and Cooperative Linux for running Linux applications inside Windows. Never tried it myself, but it sure looks interesting.

From Cooperative Linux Website

Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software such asVMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software. In its current condition, it allows us to run the KNOPPIX Japanese Edition on Windows (see Screenshots).

MacUpdate Promo Holiday Bundle is available and featuring the following apps:

• Drive Genius
• RapidWeaver
• Default Folder X
• VirusBarrier X5
• MacGourmet Deluxe
• Little Snitch
• iVolume
• KeyCue
• MacPilot
• WhatSize
• iDive (for the first 10000 bundles sold)

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