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Ok I know s.Length != 0 is faster but I still say s != "" is more readable ...

Always, but *always* set DataKeyNames on a ListView, if not you may end up with weird errors when editing etc.

You don't find each day such a high prize for an algorithmic contest. Basically all you have to do you is to write an algorithm to give better movie recommendations :), you have a huge dataset of movie-related data to play with. Sounds fun and I may give it a try ...

It seems that Windows has the default gateway the last public interface that was enabled, now, this is ok except that sometimes Windows shuts down the non-default internet connection and then re-enables it when a connection is coming - thus changing the default outgoing gateway ...

I managed to code a J2ME chat using a http connection that stays open, however there are few more problems: the database is polled to retrieve the new conversations and worse on IIS 6 I can't stop the page when the connection is closed (IsClientConnected stays true)!

If you want to forward a range of ports on a Windows Server with RRAS, the only way to do it is:

FOR /L %I IN (5001,1,5201) DO netsh routing ip nat add portmapping name="Internet" tcp 0.0.0.0 %I 127.0.0.1 %I

Here on DataLoadOptions implementation. I'm debugging a website and it seems that indeed in some cases DataLoadOptions works faster, in some cases it doesn't, I just can't find any explanation.

Also sometimes with Linq it may be faster to have many small queries to load the related child data than a single query using join, no idea why as it's the same data in the end.

At last, a real-world web course, made by UberVU, Adobe and Yahoo.

Ok, what the hell ? I've applied like 3 months ago and still no word from them. But why am I surprised, one of my friends have applied since the start of the program and still nothing ...