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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Lily Allen wins Q Award for best track The Fear
Lily Allen’s plans to quit the music scene are likely to be put on ice after winning the Q Awards’ best track.
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Update 5.6 Now Live!
Update 5.6 has gone live on all servers today and brings with it the launch of the “Night of the Lost Souls” seasonal event, the Veteran Rewards system, and the new high-level Iron Tower dungeon.
I told Stephen Gately to wake but he was dead
The widower of Stephen Gately pleaded for the singer to 'wake up' but he was dead, it was reported today.
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GWT fu, Part 2: Beyond the basics
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) lets you implement desktop-like applications that run in a browser. In the second half of a two-part series, David Geary shows you how to use some of the more advanced aspects of GWT, including sinking events, using timers, and previewing events.
‘Novice’ Sienna Miller savaged on Broadway
Sienna Miller’s Broadway debut has been torn into by critics who described her as ‘vampy’ and ‘novice’.
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: New Subscription Rate Discounts!
Funcom has announced today new discount rates for multi-month subscribers of Age of Conan. Customers who opt for a three month subscription will receive a 20% discount, six month subscriptions will receive a 30% discount, and 12 month subscriptions will see a whopping 45% discount.
Acer Aspire AS1410-2285 – Best Value in a Shipping Netbook?
If you are looking for the best value in a shipping netbook, today is your day. For around $400 plus shipping, you can get the Acer Aspire AS1410-2285 shipped from Amazon, and if you’re willing to spend extra, you could have it on Friday.
What does $399.99 plus shipping get you? Quite a [...]
GWT fu, Part 2:: Beyond the basics
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) lets you implement desktop-like applications that run in a browser. In the second half of a two-part series, David Geary shows you how to use some of the more advanced aspects of GWT, including sinking events, using timers, and previewing events.
Freida Pinto saves girl from ‘car horror’
Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto rescued a fan who fell in front of an oncoming car in London.
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Nights of the Lost Souls Event!
Nights of the Lost Souls has been announced for Age of Conan as this year’s Halloween event, and it is scheduled to go live following the release of Update 5.6. The event will consist of several new quests that will pit players both solo and teamed against three Lost Souls. Defeating these Lost Souls will earn brave adventurers a number of interesting rewards. my favorite of which is the “Undead Backscratcher,” which is basically a large bone handle with a detached arm affixed to it by
Writing great code with the IBM FileNet P8 APIs, Part 3: Take a number
Yes, you, too, can have an ECM-backed corner bakery with a tidy customer queue! Just have them take a number. This article discusses
implementation techniques for getting reliably unique sequence numbers from a FileNet P8 repository. Some of the obvious approaches have hidden dangers,
but a correct and useful approach is simple and performant. Along the way to solving this common problem, we'll see some things about
P8 development that have a much wider scope.
Cole ‘gutted’ as Rikki bows out
Rikki Loney is voted off The X Factor in a show which featured performances by Cheryl Cole and Whitney Houston.
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Rise of the Godslayer Screenshots
Funcom has released these three new, exclusive screenshots from their upcoming Age of Conan expansion, Rise of the Godslayer.
Writing great code with the IBM FileNet P8 APIs, Part 3: Take a number
Yes, you, too, can have an ECM-backed corner bakery with a tidy customer queue! Just have them take a number. This article discusses
implementation techniques for getting reliably unique sequence numbers from a FileNet P8 repository. Some of the obvious approaches have hidden dangers,
but a correct and useful approach is simple and performant. Along the way to solving this common problem, we’ll see some things about
P8 development that have a much wider scope.