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Developing Efficient CSS For Your Web Development

Author → Asif → in CSS
Nov19

One way for a smarter approach is to reset the base CSS style. This will give you a clean slate to customize every element. It will also give you the step up on browser inconsistencies when it comes to design elements. A CSS Reset is designed to set a number of element styles to a specific baseline that creates consistency across various browsers. Another smart approach is to try a CSS framework like Blueprint css.

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Compilation, Recompilation, and Plan Caching in SQL Server 2005

Author → Asif → in MS-SQL
Nov18

SQL Server will manage the objects in its cache in a few main ways: freeing up buffers or aging execution plans. Before a query, batch, stored procedure, trigger, prepared statement, or dynamic SQL statement begins execution on a SQL Server, the batch gets compiled into a plan. The plan is then executed for its effects or to produce results. Plans are cached for possible reuse opportunities. If a query plan is not even cached, its reuse opportunity is zero. Such a plan will be compiled every time it is executed, resulting in poor performance. In rare cases, non-caching is a desirable, and this paper will point out such cases later on.

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Obama Election Spurs Race Crimes Around Country

Author → Asif → in U.S-News
Nov17

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

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President Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech Transcript

Author → Asif → in Politics
Nov5

Obama delivered a brilliant and uplifting speech. There were remnants of Dr. Martin Luther King in this speech:
 
OBAMA: Hello, Chicago.
 
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
 
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
 
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
 
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
 
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.
 
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Presidential Results

Author → Asif → in Politics
Nov4

In a historic decision, Democrats after 8 years of fierce resistance, came back with a glorious victory, House Senate and White house. Today democrats after JFK and LBJ, BC , celebrating a Reagan type FDR type president; Barack Obama. It is important for this current political movement of both young and old to not rest of its laurels. We must continue to be politically aware, socially active, and most of all concerned citizens. If this election was race driven, in four years I believe the next election will be gender driven. My prediction is for Sarah Palin to trust herself onto the presidential platform. You have already seen her incubated, with four or even eight years of maturity, expect to see Sarah Palin again.

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What If You Reversed Information about Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin

Author → Asif → in Politics
Oct21

This is from an email I recently received, something interesting to contemplate.
 
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
 
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review
 
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
 
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
 
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
 
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
 
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
 
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Typo? Freudian Slip? Hmmm....

Author → Asif → in Politics
Oct12

New York county prints ‘Barack Osama’ on ballots. The possibility of a typo or mistake seems far-fetched to me.
 

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