tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71277192011-04-21T14:13:05.259-04:00Anything's PossimpibleChris Dickersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11671515169945749143noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7127719.post-87217422747331734732011-02-16T09:09:00.006-05:002011-02-16T09:32:53.148-05:00You can now block "content farms" with a Chrome <a href="http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-block-sites-from.html">extension</a>. <br /><br />Content farms are websites that just re-publish information from useful sites like stackexchange.com, and fill the rest of their site with ads. When you search the web, you end up finding their site first, and they get credit for people seeing their ads. <br /><br />Some sites like (<span style="font-style:italic;">yeah I'm not naming sites, they don't need more publicity</span>) come up near the top in a search and it’s a pay site – they expose the questions but demand payment for the responses from members (<span style="font-style:italic;">even though the answer is still exposed at the bottom of 12 pages of ads</span>).<br /><br />I found a <a href="http://www.jongales.com/blog/2011/02/14/list-of-content-farms/">list</a> of content farms (<span style="font-style:italic;">although some may just be annoying sites</span>).<br /><br />Whatever you block is reported to Google and supposedly they will take them into consideration for their search rankings.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7127719-8721742274733173473?l=chrisdickerson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Chris Dickersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11671515169945749143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7127719.post-28412828335449313422009-05-27T19:46:00.003-04:002009-05-27T19:49:35.024-04:00ISerializable's Roy Osherove <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/06/16/156948.aspx">discusses</a> implementing the BackgroundWorker control.<br /><br />See also: <a href="http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/20639?trk=DXRSS_DOTNET">Asynchronous Windows Forms Programming</a> by Juval Löwy<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7127719-2841282833544931342?l=chrisdickerson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Chris Dickersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11671515169945749143noreply@blogger.com