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My son’s Chinese exceeded my expectations
During our trip to Dallas for spring break, I was pleasantly surprised that my first grader’s Chinese is better than I expected. My son was in a Japanese immersion Montessori school for pre-school (3-4) and kindergarten (5). We put him in the Japanese immersion program because Japanese is as close to Chinese as I could…
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DotNetNuke 3.1.0 initial setup
My own experience of setting up DotNetNuke (DNN) 3.1.0. Hopefully somebody will find it useful. 1. Installed a standard Windows 2003 server. Through Manage Your Server wizard, chose custom and installed as an Application Server (IIS and ASP.NET). FrontPage extension and ASP.NET were installed. Install media was required during IIS install; 2. Downloaded DNN 3.1.0.…
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Don’t over do it, Sql Server; Watch out, Oracle
SQL Server 2005 was released in November, 2005. I actually played with it much earlier than that. Overall, I am pretty happy with it. I think it is a great product, and will give Oracle’s namesake RDBMS a run for its money. Previously, there were a lot of arguments against Sql Server for its perceived…