Yahoo Answer Script-question Answer Script

Any websites developers normally conclude that-rich content is king, but in my point of views- fresh content is queen. It means constantly updating with fresh content on your websites will be more beneficial for your website and ultimately it gives you a better result. This could only be possible when you use Question answer script. It is a website solution for making question answer websites. Question answer websites has many advantages over any other form of websites as it provides the straight forward and accurate answer to the user. It is far more beneficial to any user. They love to interact with these sites to get answer of their question. From the point of webmasters, he can easily earn great revenue from these websites. When you think about its maintenance then you have not to worry about the content of websites as users always ask and answer question which lead to the generation of fresh content always for the search engine. From search engine point of view also it is great. Let user to share their feeling of question and answer. Give them a platform to share all their feeling.

To make question answer website you need question answer script. It is very easy to make and manage. This takes a very well care of user. Websites made with in this format really earn a lot. This leads in the demand of question answer script which is exactly a yahoo answer clone. It provides the same flexibility and usability like yahoo answer and wiki answers. You really don’t need to be technically so sound however you can run it efficiently. Just made the websites and rest will be done by user who ask questions and give answer.

Features of question answer script


* it is just alike the yahoo answer, you can say it as yahoo answer clone.

* Easy to install.

* Search engine friendly URL of question and answer separately containing respective unique Meta tags.

* This feature helps in easily indexing on different search engines.

* Constantly updating of content.

* It is highly customizable. That means you can edit the design according to your choice and need.

* Design element is separate from code.

* Easy for the user to login, ask question and give answer.

* Webmaster can do according to his choice like adding or deleting category, question and answer.

* You can add filter to avoid alter things on your website.

* Administrator can block the registered user from posting new question or answering if he is doing spamming.

* A user gets an e-mail notification if any other user gives answer to his question.

* Question answer script made websites is fully customized with advertising space. You can add third party advertisement script also

These features become the reason for its high demand. Anyone can get benefits from its just buying it in affordable price. This is really a life long project for any wise and intelligent website developer. He definitely uses this Yahoo answer script to get more from this then the above described.

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Web Development And The Big Time Out

by: Scott Lindsay

One of the great debilitators in online business is simply the perceived (or real) lack of time. Business owners are used to moving forward. An online web presence can make them feel tied to an office chair learning skills they aren’t sure they want to know.

It’s not uncommon for those who deal in full time web design to have individuals contact them for a site design, but have absolutely no idea what they want. Furthermore when the designer questions them the response might be, “I don’t know, just make it look nice.”

Let’s not forget the core values or mission of the business. Many business owners have no idea how to answer those kinds of questions. They may stare blankly for a moment or two and there’s no more time for further deep thought so they go back to action – without answers.

In many cases it is possible to answer some of the questions needed, but it may require taking time away from a familiar setting. It may also require more time than you think you want to give.

If you can get to a place of concentrated contemplation you are likely to find yourself stripping ideas to their core to find out what your business is trying to accomplish and what your ultimate goals might be.

As with almost any project you can turn frustration around if you will just take the time to come to terms with your vision.

Sometimes we spend so much time ‘doing’ we never stop to ask the question, “Why?”

This process can be a bit like taking a bus that drives around the park. You keep looking at the flowers and the park bench and long to sit in the quiet shade of a tree and just absorb the calming atmosphere. You know they will have a positive effect on you, but for some reason you just can’t seem to find the energy to get off the bus.

It seems to me there are some sites that are misguided or rarely guided that could benefit from the process of self-evaluation. These sites may look nice, but there is a sense of disconnection that may not be easy to identify, but it’s fairly obvious to visitors.

Creative energy is at a minimum while business owners simply tackle what seem to be the most urgent details.

As more people gravitate to online business there needs to be a shift in the thinking of how one goes about doing business online. In many ways it can’t be approached in the same way a traditional business is developed, yet that is typically the way many new web commerce ventures choose to tackle the subject.

You may discover your business will be more successful if you take some time for rigorous reflection. The time set aside can be a bit like an architect that takes the time to develop plans for a new building. You wouldn’t expect the architect to simply tell a construction crew to, “Go out there and build – something.”

Work at ‘building’ your online business in a comprehensive way. Your effort can develop a firm foundation for long-term success.

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Do The Media Spread Computer Viruses?

by: Joel Walsh

Summary: Could the mass media hype about computer viruses actually make the problem worse?

If you believe what you hear in the media, there are an awful lot of viruses going around. No, I'm not talking about the make-you-sick kind of virus, though they get plenty of airtime, too. I'm talking about the kind of virus that enters via your internet connection rather than your nasal passages.

What the mainstream media often don't tell you--at least, in most radio and television newscasts and in the crucial headlines and opening paragraphs of newspaper articles-- is that many of these "viruses" are not viruses at all.

What Computer Viruses Really Are

The main reason the mainstream media always are in alarm over viruses is that they tend to call any malicious computer program a virus. In reality, there are at least eleven distinct types of malicious software, or malware, commonly affecting computers today. The most common of these are worms, Trojans, and spyware.

So, what's the difference between computer viruses and the other types of malware? The difference is that computer viruses are just about the only ones that regularly shut down computers and cause other obvious damage. The most common of the other kinds of malware--worms, Trojans, and spyware--are usually only detectable with a special scan.

The Real Danger of Computer Viruses

If the other types of malware are so unobtrusive that they can only be detected with a special scan, then what's to worry about? For starters, these programs are called malicious for a reason: they are designed to cause some kind of damage, if not to your computer, then to someone else's.

Worms are most famously used to damage, destroy, or disrupt other computer networks than the one on which the host computer is located. For instance, worms have been used by website owners to shut down rival websites by sending overwhelming numbers of requests to the computer that hosts that website. Worms have also been used to send out viruses to other computers, often without infecting the host machine--after all, what would it benefit the worm to shut down its host computer?

Trojans, in turn, are often used to insert worms and other malware on your computer, even if the Trojan itself does no damage.

But even if you don't care what happens to anyone else, you should still be concerned about one kind of malware: spyware, a kind of malware that, true to its name, collects data from your computer and sends it back to a remote host.

Most spyware is only interested in monitoring your internet usage so it can tell other programs, called adware, what advertising to popup on your computer. However, there are criminal spyware programs that steal financial data, or perform a thorough identity theft. Don't think you have personal or financial data on your computer? Some spyware programs contain a keylogger, which is a program that copies whatever you type, usually in order to snatch passwords. Even if you keep no financial information on your computer, if you ever buy anything over the web, the keylogger would allow its owner to buy stuff using the same information you typed in to buy stuff yourself.

Why Blame the Media?

Given the danger of all these different types of malware, isn't it a good thing that the mass media are becoming hysterical about it? And can't they be forgiven the sloppy reporting of calling Trojans, worms, spyware, and other malware "viruses"?

No, no, no.

This is a classic case of bad reporting doing more damage than no reporting at all. In this case, the damage bad reporting has done is to promote a common myth that goes something like this: "The only malicious software is a virus. Viruses damage your computer. Therefore, if my computer is working OK, my computer has no malicious software. I only need to scan my computer for problems when there is a sign of problems."

Thanks to this myth, many people complacently let their antivirus software go months out of date, not wanting to be bothered with scheduling an automatic update. Just as bad, many people don't have any extra software to combat the other types of malware that may not be covered by antivirus software.

In fact, it's not uncommon for people who have found malware on their computers after a scan to say, "but I never had malware on my computer before!" But how would they have known if they had never scanned!

Until the biggest mainstream media--and especially television--start educating the public about the need to have their computers automatically scanned at least daily, the world will continue to have major, drawn-out problems with malware that could have been wiped out as soon as soon as the anti-malware software makers discovered it.

And until that day, the mainstream media will have many more opportunities to run hysterical stories about "viruses," thereby forcing them to sell more newspapers and broadcast to even larger audiences of people who suck at the information trough yet somehow never become full.
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Optimizing C# Application

7 Ways To Optimize C# Code

Code optimization is an important aspect of writing an efficient C# application. The following tips will help you increase the speed and efficiency of your C# code and applications.
1. Knowing when to use StringBuilder

You must have heard before that a StringBuilder object is much faster at appending strings together than normal string types.

The thing is StringBuilder is faster mostly with big strings. This means if you have a loop that will add to a single string for many iterations then a StringBuilder class is definitely much faster than a string type.

However if you just want to append something to a string a single time then a StringBuilder class is overkill. A simple string type variable in this case improves on resources use and readability of the C# source code.

Simply choosing correctly between StringBuilder objects and string types you can optimize your code.
2. Comparing Non-Case-Sensitive Strings

In an application sometimes it is necessary to compare two string variables, ignoring the cases. The tempting and traditionally approach is to convert both strings to all lower case or all upper case and then compare them, like such:

str1.ToLower() == str2.ToLower()

However repetitively calling the function ToLower() is a bottleneck in performace. By instead using the built-in string.Compare() function you can increase the speed of your applications.

To check if two strings are equal ignoring case would look like this:

string.Compare(str1, str2, true) == 0 //Ignoring cases

The C# string.Compare function returns an integer that is equal to 0 when the two strings are equal.
3. Use string.Empty

This is not so much a performance improvement as it is a readability improvement, but it still counts as code optimization. Try to replace lines like:

if (str == "")

with:

if (str == string.Empty)

This is simply better programming practice and has no negative impact on performance.

Note, there is a popular practice that checking a string's length to be 0 is faster than comparing it to an empty string. While that might have been true once it is no longer a significant performance improvement. Instead stick with string.Empty.
4. Replace ArrayList with List<>

ArrayList are useful when storing multiple types of objects within the same list. However if you are keeping the same type of variables in one ArrayList, you can gain a performance boost by using List<> objects instead.

Take the following ArrayList:

ArrayList intList = new ArrayList();
intList.add(10);
return (int)intList[0] + 20;

Notice it only contains intergers. Using the List<> class is a lot better. To convert it to a typed List, only the variable types need to be changed:

List intList = new List();

intList.add(10)

return intList[0] + 20;

There is no need to cast types with List<>. The performance increase can be especially significant with primitive data types like integers.
5. Use && and || operators

When building if statements, simply make sure to use the double-and notation (&&) and/or the double-or notation (||), (in Visual Basic they are AndAlso and OrElse).

If statements that use & and | must check every part of the statement and then apply the "and" or "or". On the other hand, && and || go thourgh the statements one at a time and stop as soon as the condition has either been met or not met.

Executing less code is always a performace benefit but it also can avoid run-time errors, consider the following C# code:

if (object1 != null && object1.runMethod())

If object1 is null, with the && operator, object1.runMethod()will not execute. If the && operator is replaced with &, object1.runMethod() will run even if object1 is already known to be null, causing an exception.
6. Smart Try-Catch

Try-Catch statements are meant to catch exceptions that are beyond the programmers control, such as connecting to the web or a device for example. Using a try statement to keep code "simple" instead of using if statements to avoid error-prone calls makes code incredibly slower. Restructure your source code to require less try statements.
7. Replace Divisions

C# is relatively slow when it comes to division operations. One alternative is to replace divisions with a multiplication-shift operation to further optimize C#. The article explains in detail how to make the conversion.
Conclusion

As you can see these are very simple C# code optimizations and yet they can have a powerful impact on the performance of your application. To test out the optimizations, try out the free Optimizing Utility.
Profiling

An important concept when it comes to increasing the speed and efficiency of you C# code, is code profiling. A good profiler can not only let you know about the speed bottlenecks in your applications, but it can also help you with memory management. The best .Net profiler is probably RedGates ANTS Profiler. They have a free trial at their homepage you can download before purchasing the full product...

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Testing C# Code Performance Speed

Programming with C#, as in a lot of languages, gives an infinite amount of ways to write applications. All the different programming pratices can vary your application's speed and efficiency. Determening which coding techniques are faster is an essential skill.

The algorithm to test out fast and efficient C# source code run is:

-> Initialize variables needed

-> Declare a System.Diagonistic.StopWatch varible.

-> Include this line before starting the test: [StopWatch variable].Start();

-> Setup a for loop with the code to be tested inside

-> The amount of trials should be set up in such a way that the total execute time lasts an appropriate duration

-> Execute this line to stop the StopWatch: [StopWatch variable].Stop();

-> Initialize a new TimeSpan variable with: TimeSpan span = new TimeSpan([StopWatch variable].ElapsedTicks);

-> The span variable has the amount of time the source took to run

An optional part is to divide the time it took to execute the C# code and divide it by the amount of times the for loop ran. Giving you the average time per call.

I myself like to compare the total execution time because it has less chance of variation in the results.

Often the first time the code is run the source code will run slower than normal, so try to run several tests and average out the results.

Additionally I recommend to test source code from within Visual Studio since source code that runs with the debugger runs a bit slower. Creating a nicer window of time to compare different snippets of source code.

Remember that the optimized Release version of your program will be optimized by the compiler (inline code and such) and will almost always run faster than the debug version.

You can download a free C# Example Utility that uses the algorithm described at => http://vckicks.110mb.com/code_speed_test.html

Also for general tips on optimizing C# code visit => http://vckicks.110mb.com/optimize_csharp_code.html for 5 ways to quickly improve your C#.Net code.

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