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New Camera: Nikon Coolpix S4

By www.shuttermag.com
Published On :: 2005-09-09

High Quality 10x Optical Zoom-Nikkor 38-380mm Glass Lens (35mm equivalent): allows you to zoom in on all the action and capture incredibly sharp, clear images plus a 4x digital zoom for a total zoom of 40x

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Southern Hospitality - California Style, Ch 56, More than Life Itself - Diane SanFilippo

By author-me.com
Published On :: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:54:49 GMT

We had to turn the car in on Thursday, and we had thought that we would do some ‘touring’ beforehand, but without air-conditioning, we were virtually prisoners in this small, but cool, room.

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Surban Speaks - from (new) Black Eagle Girls and the Pirates of the Mystic Caravan., by Kenneth Mulholland

By author-me.com
Published On :: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:58:05 GMT

Almost a whole year had gone by since both Priscilla Black and Monique Bateleur had passed within the gates as first-year students although, in that short space of time, they had had several adventures that most people would never encounter throughout their entire life. After all, not every one had the perplexing experience of encountering extra-terrestrial creatures from somewhere far off in deep space beyond Canis Minor, The Dog Star.

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Buster - from (new) Black Eagle Girls and the Pirates of the Mystic Caravan., by Kenneth Mulholland

By author-me.com
Published On :: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:25:29 GMT

'Buster has found your target and is waiting. You go tomorrow around midnight. Four hours maximum to get the goodies. And don't forget, I'll be right there with you all the way.'

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Keeping It Simple

By www.lkessler.com
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One of the difficult parts about programming is to figure out how to add features but still keep the program simple and intuitive. Every feature added, by definition, makes a program more complex. In the extreme, you get what's called "feature bloat". Even if you only have simple features but, say, 100 of them, it becomes difficult to even find the one task among the hundred that you want to do.

So as I've developed my alpha version over the last couple of years, I've been trying to finalize the features to be in Version 1.0. Many ideas have come along. Many excellent ones have been suggested by trial users and purchasers of Behold. Every feature I have added is core to what Behold is about. Behold must first display all your data logically and conveniently. It must have useful reorganize functions. And it must be set up in a manner that will allow it to advance towards direct on-the-screen what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing in Version 2.0. Everything else must in some useful way support that core functionality.

I have in the last few versions eliminated whole swaths of code and functions, such as the separate Name Index form, the GEDCOM viewer, complex numbering schemes, and soon I'll be getting rid of the log file by incorporating the warning messages right in to the file sections of the Everything Report. All of these were done in a move towards simplicity and ease of use.

Sometimes I don't see the simple way to do something. I've been working with Behold for so long, the internals sometimes get in the way of seeing the externals. So please let me know if there's something that you think can be done simpler or more logically.

I am further inspired by a book I discovered a few days ago, called Getting Real, a book by 37signals about building software. If you're interested, you can read it free online. I purchased a PDF so I can print it and read and reference it at my leisure. Although Behold isn't an online application, everything else the book says felt like a mirror as to the way I'm developing Behold. The only thing I'm lacking, is that I'm taking too long.

So where have I been the last two weeks: I've finished the display of references to notes. This is tricky, especially since I display the note inline if there is only one reference to it, and in the index section if there is more than one. This is to handle the various flavors of GEDCOM which implement notes in different ways.

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Controlling Web crawlers (search engine spiders) with robots.txt and meta tags

By www.buildwebsite4u.com
Published On :: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT

How to instruct Web crawlers (search engine spiders) what to do when they visit your site. You can specify that some parts of your site should be private and non-searchable. You can control how Web crawlers index your site at different levels - the entire site, specific directories, and individual pages.

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Jesus Piece Annouce NovDec Tour

By www.RoomThirteen.com
Published On :: Sun 10 Sep 2023 13:49:27 GMT

Hardcore unit unveil a run of shows across the UK and Europe this Winter!

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