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Friday, 10 March 2006
If you’re a software developer, string concatenation is something you do regularly, irrespective of the programming language you use. While languages such as C, C++, Perl and PHP all support the very useful sprintf() function, the VB/VBScript developers have traditionally had to resort to using a combination of single and double quotes, escape characters, text, line continuation characters and ampersands (&) to get the job done.
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Monday, 6 March 2006
It now appears that Dale Begg-Smith is quite a bit more than the “spam man” he was initially labelled by some sections of the media. According to this article from The Age, it seems that a number of people have been busy trying to uncover Dale’s shady business practices.
When “Our Dale” won his event at the Torino Games a few weeks ago, the Australian media initially dubbed him as the “internet millionaire who got gold”. What they didn’t seem to know at the time was that “Our Dale” apparently made millions of dollars at the expense of millions of computer users that suffered from the technology his spyware company (AdsCPM) was peddling.
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Thursday, 2 March 2006
About 18 months ago, Sensis launched its new multi-content search engine to much fanfare. According to the ZDNet article Telstra launches search heavyweight, the Sensis management had high expectations that their new search engine would be the one others would eventually be compared to, because apparently:
“It is not about technology and it’s not about volume or providing thousands of irrelevant results. After all, who wants 10,000 irrelevant results when you can receive 20 or so highly relevant results that meet your precise needs? What we have done with sensis.com.au is create a new benchmark for internet search against which future search engines will need to be compared”
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