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WebReference Update: October 11, 2007

New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:

FEATURE: Blogging: The Free Internet Marketing Method
OTHER VOICES:

• Hosting ASP.NET Applications in Medium Trust
• Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL Feature Comparison - Part 2
• Photoshop's Blend If: An Overview

SIGHTINGS AROUND THE WEB: A Brief History of Billiards and the Tools of the Trade
NET NEWS:

• Zend Brings Microsoft Into the PHP Fold
• ICANN Begins Testing URLs with Non-Roman Characters
• Mozilla Gets Serious About a Mobile Browser

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FEATURE: Blogging: The Free Internet Marketing Method

Blogging is one of the easiest ways to get your message noticed on the Web. While blogging has now become a hot method for teens to broadcast their thoughts, it's also a great Internet marketing tool.

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OTHER VOICES

• Hosting ASP.NET Applications in Medium Trust

  This article, by Scott Mitchell, looks at Medium Trust: what it is, why Web hosting companies use it, and what impact it may have on your hosted Web application.
  4 Guys from Rolla

• Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL Feature Comparison - Part 2

  In the last piece of our database comparison, we hit upon various areas such as triggers, views, and stored procedures. This time around, we'll discuss some areas where the platforms differ more significantly, most importantly in their handling of complex SQL and optimizing choices.
  Database Journal

• Photoshop's Blend If: An Overview

  Richard Lynch walks readers through this powerful tool, which is a mystery to most Photoshop users.
  Graphics.com

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SIGHTINGS AROUND THE WEB: A Brief History of Billiards and the Tools of the Trade

Advances in the game of billiards and the equipment used to play the game occurred very much in parallel. This brief history is intended to chronicle the links between the two. Covers the period 1600-1930 and topics such as an early form of the game played with two wooden balls, the mace and the cue, types of cushions and chalk, and ivory and synthetic resin balls. From the English Amateur Billiards Association. [Source: LII]

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NET NEWS

• Zend Brings Microsoft Into the PHP Fold

  Though PHP is competitive with ASP.net, Microsoft makes PHP a first-class citizen on Windows.
  internetnews, October 9, 2007

• ICANN Begins Testing URLs with Non-Roman Characters

  Starting on Monday, October 15, the first fully Internationalized Domain Names will be accessible to Internet users everywhere, as ICANN starts to roll out support for Unicode characters in top-level domains.
  Ars Technica, October 11, 2007

• Mozilla Gets Serious About a Mobile Browser

  After a couple of experiences dipping a toe into the mobile market, Mozilla Corp. said it plans to get serious about developing a mobile browser. Mozilla has recently hired two new developers to help work on the project and plans to release Mobile Firefox some time in the next year or two.
  Computerworld, October 11, 2007

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That's it for this . I'll have more for you next time.

Lee Underwood
Newsletter Editor, WebReference.com
lunderwood(at)jupitermedia.com

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