My friends at Educator.com recently rolled out their new website. Sufficient to say, they did a great job on the new site design & the content looks very promising. It’s very interesting to see how their business model will work out, $20 a month or $200 a year subscription.
With all of the education budget crisis we are seeing in this country, could a system like this help fill the void? Educator isn’t offering “core” classes, rather advanced Math & Science, in which good teachers are tough to come by & students are of a different nature. Just a thought…
Some of their courses
Algebra I
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Java
Written by Tim on July 2nd, 2009 with 1 comment.
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Pear:Log – ELMAH for PHP if you will
In case you don’t know it yet, Seapine is releasing TestTrack RM (Requirements Management) very soon, in fact the beta site was opened last week & you can now go sign up for it.
CodeIgniter Conference
ASP.NET AJAX testing with Visual Studio 2008 Web Test
Written by Tim on June 29th, 2009 with no comments.
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We are building a little something here at work and I needed to throw together a quick UI design before things got heated. In the past I’ve come across Visio designed application or a mix of visio & photoshop. I found some decent visio stencil sets for web applications but I just wasn’t satisfied with the end result and didn’t want to jump into Photoshop to make things prettier. I wanted a something simple, that understood I was building a web application, & a low learning curve. That’s what I found with Balsamiq Mockups. I highly recommend you give it a try.
Written by Tim on June 2nd, 2009 with no comments.
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LinkedIn Architecture
ASP.NET 4.0 & VS 10 – Talk given at Mix 09 about these two
HTML Color OneBox – Google a hex color value and it’ll show you what it looks like
Written by Tim on March 26th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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I am alive! Hoping to return to a daily find next week. Stay tuned.
http://www.datejs.com/ – Gives you RTM type of date handling
Masked Input Plugin – Jquery plugin to mask data input, very nice.
Asp.Net Control Panel Control – Great idea
.NET Developer Survey Results
Written by Tim on March 6th, 2009 with no comments.
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Charles – Http watcher similar to Fiddler
AMY Editor – online source code editor based off of textmate, very cool
Mozilla Bespin – Online code editor
Microsoft offers $250K for Conficker virus creator – Was it you? Email me if so 
Written by Tim on February 18th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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In honor of Steve Jobs stepping down, I’ll call this the Mac OS X Server edition.
Optimizing an Xserve for Web Hosting – Been there done that.
Macos-x-server.com – wiki full of info not found many other places.
Apple Server Discussion Group – If you must ask a question
Mac OS X Manual Pages – Boy do I wish I would have found this resource earlier
Written by Tim on January 15th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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Thought I would jot down my 2008 tech goals in reviews. I’ll be putting my 2009 list shortly.
Learn MVC – Accomplished. I started down the asp.net mvc route but after a short bit realized I didn’t want to learn beta technology that would be a moving target on top of learning mvc. I then went down the ruby on rails route but again I was learning 2 things at once and ended up settling on CodeIgniter MVC framework for PHP. I really enjoyed learning CI and mvc and made doing PHP much more bearable and actually enjoyable again! I can’t imagine writing PHP without a mvc framework and hopefully it will make learning asp.net mvc or ruby on rails that much easier since I now understand the mvc concept pretty well.
Get Microsoft Certified – Accomplished. Passed the MCTS 70-536 exam test. Learned/memorized some new things but frankly I think I’ve already forgotten alot of it. It was worth it though.
Actively Post to this Blog – Accomplished. I’m going to say “mission accomplished”. The daily find never was daily and really was never meant to be. It’s just a name and besides I do have real work to do besides finding the best web stuff for my readers, the 2 of you 
Learn LINQ – Accomplished. Big fan of linq and grudge when I’m working on an older application that uses plain sql strings.
Learn Ruby – Fail. Really epic fail. Just never got to it. This is one of my top goals for 2009.
Learn Silverlight – Fail. This I don’t feel that bad about. I’ve never been keen on Flash development and silverlight falls under this category for me. I’m not a great designer so my UI will never be sweet and I don’t see myself using this professionally so, eh… off my list.
Zero Inbox – Fail. Instead I now depend on search, either in Gmail or outlook 2007 (which is actually not bad). It’s been working good for me. Off my list.
Discover New Tools – Accomplished. This is the the techtoolblog after all :). Biggest win tool for the year = BitNami/mRemote.
5 out of 8 is one heck of a batting average in baseball and I’ll take it.
Written by Tim on January 2nd, 2009 with 4 comments.
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