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Daily Find #110

Tim — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:44:41 +0000

This is the CodeIgniter edition, as you can tell I’m a big fan of the framework. It’s MVC, it works on PHP 4/5, and it gets out of your way.

Bamboo Invoice System – written in CodeIgniter PHP

Using Oracle Wilcards with CodeIgniter

Working with the Email Class in CodeIgniter

Getting started with Google Maps API and CodeIgniter

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Daily Find #109

Tim — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:43:21 +0000

Yammer – twitter for internal communication

Get Window 7 like features on Vista

jQuery ThemeRoller

color fading menu with jQuery

Introducing Cincinnati.rb – for those who insistent on doing Ruby

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Happy Third Anniversary

Tim — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:54:56 +0000

I normally keep things techie & geekie on the blog, but today is my 3rd year anniversary with my wife, Amanda. Believe it or not, we were high school sweet hearts - started dating in our senior year of high school. When I tell people our story most people are amazed that kind of thing still happens today, but it does, and we’ve been together since. It’s been an amazing ride together and no doubt the best time of my life.

You hear how opposites attract? Amanda and I are complete opposites. I’m a tech geek, she is in the medical field. I talk ideas & politics, she talks people & events. I like vanilla, she likes chocolate. History Channel vs The Hills. It keeps it interesting when you don’t agree on much. The good side to all of this is we compliment each other so well. My weaknesses are her strengths and vice versa. Over the years her strengths have rubbed off some & I’m a much better person because of it.

Here is to us, happy anniversary Amanda!

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Daily Find #108

Tim — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:07:23 +0000

Build a Web spider on Linux

Picasa Web Album PHP Widget

Google Destroyed Feedburner

PDC Videos

Google Analytics Integrates Adsense Data

Linux – Speed your file system up by 40%

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Daily Find #107

Tim — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:56:00 +0000

CodeIgniter 1.7.0 released

iTunes Data Grid Skin

Creating a Dynamic Data-Driven User Interface with ASP.NET

Free Microsoft Chart Controls released

Creating and Parsing JSON data with PHP

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Daily Find #106

Tim — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:34:42 +0000

Bloglines reliability has gotten worse and worse over the years. I only wish Google reader wasn’t so ugly or I would switch today…

Nice write up on ASP.NET MVC beta

Fiddler on Firefox

Ann Arbor Day of .NET 2008 – Recap

Microsoft Dogfood Developers Conference in Columbus

Tweet what you spend – I see twitter/clones being used more & more for apps

Freeing up disk space on Vista

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Daily Find #105

Tim — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:48:07 +0000

15 Tools for monitoring website popularity

30 tabs and accordion scripts

You know the economy is down in the programming world…

Restore SQL backup via command line

Preventing CSRF AND XSRF Attacks

Mozilla forming Developer Tools for the Web

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Must Have Software 2008 Edition

Tim — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:58:00 +0000

Development

FireFox 3 – Extensions have made this my main web development browser. Too bad it feel clunky now compared to Chrome

FireBug – The best toolkit for any web developer out there.

Web Developer Toolkit – I uses this less and less with Firebug getting the job done 90% of the time.

Better Gmail – Makes gmail go over a SSL connection and also replaces attachment images with a nice icon representation. I love the new skin, but at last Gmail is too slow on FF, have to use it on Chrome

ColorZilla – A great tool to quickly find the HEX value of anything on any web page.

Visual Studio 2008 – Visual Studio is still the standard for IDE’s. Of course it could always be faster but it is really nice.

Resharper – Love rescharper, cleans my code as I type.

Microsoft SQL Server – Most .NET projects connect to this so it’s a good idea to have a local copy running

Management Studio – At first I wasn’t a Management Studio fan, give me back the 2000 version of Enterprise Manager and Query Editer. Nevermind. Management Studio is double sweet for the price of one.

Notepad++ – My texteditior and most of the time PHP ide of choice. Fast, simple, customizable, a few nice plugins. Love the custom color schemes, I go dark.

WinSCP – A free opensource SFTP manager for when you have to work on the nix machines. FileZilla now does SFTP so I’m sure this is here anymore except it comes with PUTTY and they have a nice integration going.

FileZilla – Free, open source, clean, simple FTP client. Now does SFTP but doesn’t have way to open a terminal session like WinSCP.

Navicat – My preferred mysql manager of choice, although their query interface needs improvement.

CodeIgniter – Loving this PHP MVC framework. Simpler then cakePHP. I’m building a little something, something in this, more to come on that front.

IE Tester – A must for web developers. Test against IE 5 and up all on the same machine.

Surround SCM – Of course my version control software of choice. Cross platform, really nice GUI, intuitive interface. Plus integrates on almost all IDEs.

TestTrack Pro – Our bug tracking software. Great workflow engine.

QA Wizard Pro – Automated testing tool.

BitNami Wamp Stack – PHP development made much easier on windows.

Code Translator – I use to be a vb.net guy, this tools can be life saver.

System

Chrome – Some how this became my default browser of choice in less then 2 weeks. It’s fast.

iTunes – I use iTunes to manage my podcast listening list. It does a great job at that.

mRemote – Where would I be with out this terminal services manager.

Office 2007 – The biggest upgrade in Microsoft’s office line in some time. The ribbon bar is nice and I love how they brought really useful features to the forefront.

Fireworks – Still better then photoshop for web graphics and cutting

Blackberry Manager – For upgrading your firmware on your crackberry and other crackberry tasks.

TweetDeck – Best twitter client I have found

Windows Live Writer – Who knew Microsoft could put out a nice Web 2.0 , errrr, Windows client. Writing this post in Live writer as we speak…

CCleaner – Free PC crap cleaner.

7Zip – Can handle tar, zip, gz, and other compressed formats,

Foxit – PDF reader software. Runs so much smaller then Adobe.

FreeRam XP Pro – RAM manager

Process Explorer – Free microsoft add on, this should replace task manager.

SlickRun – Launcher program

CleanMem – Runs in the background to release RAM

UltraMon – essential if you have more then 1 monitor.

Safari for Windows – because I have too

Sites

bloglines – nicer interface then Google Reader

gmail – the standard for web based email

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-13

Tim — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:59:59 +0000

Google wants to charge me $250 to attend a Analytics seminar while Microsoft begs me to come to their events for free, score Msoft #
e6500 handles volume much better then d820 #
Generosity Index for those who think Blue gives more then Red - http://tinyurl.com/3ko3c7 #
@averyj Having Rank - Giving Rank = GI ratio #
@averyj it’s giving you the stat which states give vs their income rank. @nkohari - this is the source http://tinyurl.com/4xsrv #
@averyj @nkohari You can improve your states rank - send checks to the @tboland foundation #
Just figured out why no traffic this morning - It’s president’s day. I guess half of the people work for the government & banks #
@mattbrewer Doh, yes, yes, Columbus Day #
Can the bengals really run out fitzpatrick again, they have no chance with him #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-12

Tim — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:59:59 +0000

Cooking turkey bacon, I have my doubts its as good as the real stuff but we’ll see #
Turkey bacon ok, but not like the real stuff #
@glammi we need harold green back! CP had 15 yards rushing, I swear I could have had that, and they could pay me half his salary #

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