Wireless Directory Assistance to Generate Billions

According to a new report the addition of mobile numbers to the U.S. directory assistance/enquiry (DA/DQ) database could translate to a revenue opportunity for telecommunications carriers and DA/DQ service providers of nearly $2 billion dollars by 2008.

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Avoid C# Memory Leaks with Destructor and Dispose

Here are two classes that allocate resources, the first class needs to implement a destructor and Dispose, but the second class doesn't need to. The difference is that the first class allocates resources in the constructor and doesn't clean them up immediately. In contrast, the second class allocates resources in a member function and carefully frees them before exiting (using a finally block), so the…

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The Upside of Search Engine Marketing

One thing you can count on at an SES conference is a solid staple of presenters. Safa Rashchty, managing director of Piper Jaffray certainly qualifies. Mr. Rashchty holds a master's from Boston University, a bachelor' degree in engineering from Purdue, and is a regular on CNBC and CNNfn. In other words, he knows what he's talking about.

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Paging mechanism using XML+XSLT

XSLT works pretty good to transform XML documents, but the things are getting much better when we are able to pass arguments to the XSL. This article will show how arguments can be passed without server side logic involved.

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More Perl Sorting

Perl has an easy to use "sort" function. For example, you might have an array like this:

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