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November 2007

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The Daily Find #8

Software Development

Test Drive Development - Does writing software backwards really improve quality? A real world case example.

ASP.NET/Web Development

Silverlight Add-on Tools for VS2008 Released

Dynamically Adding Image Reflections using ASP.NET

Another CSS framework

MIsc

What If Google were Evil?

 

Written by Tim on November 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Daily Find #7

Took a day off yesterday, back to the find ;)

State of SubSonic - Is SubSonic relevant anymore with Linq? Rob promises really good MVC support so maybe.

Dzone, Fresh links for developers - Amazing how many good resources are on Internet, and how easy it is to miss them completely.

Stored Procedures vs SQL Calls - Another opinion on this matter, as if you need it.

242 Free .NET components - Free is good

Data Layer Testing

Written by Tim on November 29th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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The Daily Find #6

Ajax with ASP.NET MVC Framework - It feels like they are teasing us with these demos.

LINQ to Active Directory - Linq is the best thing Microsoft has done in years.

Written by Tim on November 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Daily Find #5

SQL

Update database row if exists, insert if not

ASP.NET

ASP.NET MVC Framework to Mobile Device

Highlight rows on OnMouseover event in GridView - A simple technique to add more sophistication to your gridview controls.

MISC

Leopard released before it was ready - This is a problem all software has.

Zune #1 on Amazon - The black Friday special of $89 was tempting but I passed.

Online office comparison - via SuperSite for Windows

Written by Tim on November 26th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Daily Find #4

Software Development

Has CAPTCHA Been "Broken" - Actually It’s not, if you do a good job with it.

VS2008/.NET 3.5 Ships…sooooo…where’s the source?

Updated AJAX Control Toolkit Released - Looks like your going to need to run 2 different versions between .NET 2.0 & .NET 3.5

SQL

Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier

Misc

Install Telnet on Vista - Most are surprised to find Telnet is not installed by default on Vista

Apple Safari 3.0.4 beta update for Windows released

SendStudio NX 1.3.1 Released

Written by Tim on November 21st, 2007 with 2 comments.
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The Daily Find #3

Software Development

Code Spaces - Subversion/Bugzilla hosting - Free for 2 users and 1 project -via Double Shot

ASP.NET

Dev.Opera.com Style TabContainer Theme - More great stuff from Matt Berseth

MISC

FireFox 3 Beta 1 Released - Good Luck ;)

ASP.NET MVC Framework - Exception Handling

Written by Tim on November 20th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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The Daily Find #2

Open Source

A Fresh Cup back up - Mike G daily shots on RoR.

ASP.NET

Castle Founder sounds off on ASP.NET MVC

JQuery TabContainer for ASP.NET - More  good stuff from Matt Berseth.

Software Development

How to Program Google Android - Oh I wish it wasn’t Java.

Howto: Create a Custom Control in ASP.NET (C#) - Nice tutorial for getting this done

Compressing a file as it is uploaded - Never had to do it myself but now I know how to.

Obtain Size Of All Tables in SQL Server - Not using the GUI

Misc

Microsoft Dynamics GP SP1 Released - That was quick.

Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite Released

Code Mash 2008 Key Note - The one and only Scott Hanselman

Written by Tim on November 19th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Daily Find #1

Web Development

MooTools 1.2 beta released

Software Development

How To Demo Software - Some good tips

AdInsight - LDAP real time monitoring tool

Misc

Better Gmail 2 - It’s still missing folder colors so I’m still using the old version of gmail but this looks to be progress.

FireFox 3 Preview - When I installed the alpha last week it still had tons of ways to go.

Written by Tim on November 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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5 year old, whisky, & football

How in the world do these 3 thing things relate?  It’s not easy but let me share with you the best conversation I’ve had in while.

So last night my 5 year old, Nick, and I are watching the Lakers survive a comeback attempt by the Rockets.  Nick always wants to know whom I’m "Yeahing for".  We also use the game to keep up on his numbers, who has more, less, how much by-it’s a good way to keep him sharp and for me to get my NBA fix.  Anyway’s, they flash some highlights of a Timber Wolves game and Nick belts out "Hey is that the whiskies team I saw play".  Ahh, maybe I heard that wrong, repeat.  Oh yeah, he said whiskies.  "Duh, Dad, I went to the football game last week with Grandpa, UC was playing the Whiskies."  Not Whiskies I pointed out to him, they played the Connecticut Huskies.

I laughed for a good bit over that one.

Written by Tim on November 15th, 2007 with no comments.
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New Gmail 2.0 Version Today

There is a new version of Gmail out today, my account got upgraded not entirely sure if everyones has. It seems much faster, although it did make me disable firebug. Gmail Label Colors is broke and so is Better Gmail. Hopefully they’ll be a fix coming soon cause I’m not use to the “old” gmail and MIGHT be willing to switch over to the new Live.com since you can FINALLY get a live.com address.

Update - You can go back to the previous version of Gmail - Top Right Corner -> Previous Version

Written by Tim on November 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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