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Enterprise iPhone (a week with 2.0 beta)
Wordpress 2.5.1 released - 2.5 has security issue.
Hacking jQuery ThickBox - A couple of nice add functions for Thickbox
GridFox - Grid Layout Firefox Extension
OpenEXT - There is a ton of feedback, mostly bad, about extjs changing their license status to GPL. This guy isn’t happy.
Written by Tim on April 29th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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I’m just glad I’m not in Ely Minnesota today, they are getting 10-15 inches of freaking snow! It’s April 25! My guys Bret & Jim must be suffering today 
Jeff is blogging now about Surround SCM.
AjaxControlToolkit TabContainer Theme Gallery
Changing & Customizing your Mouse Buttons Actions with X-Mouse Button Control
Microsoft about to go hostile on Yahoo! - Been waiting to see this
Written by Tim on April 25th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Twitter edition. I’m going to give this twitter a try - catch me at tjb. So far it’s ok. I’m looking for a nice Blackberry Twitter App, not entirely sold on Twitterberry or using GTalk.
Twitterberry - It’s ok, but I’m not entirely sure how to reply to someone or auto notice of friends tweets.
Digsby - IM, Social, Twitter all in one application.
twitterrific - Mac Only twitter application
twirl - Cross platform twitter application written on Adobe Air platform
http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps - Main resource for twitter applications
http://m.slandr.net/index.php - Mobile site for twitter.
Written by Tim on April 24th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Comparing Popular Javascript / AJAX frameworks - And the winner is…jQuery of course
Microsoft unveils Live Mesh - Substitute Mesh with Mash and that’s what you have, a mash of existing Microsoft technologies in a windows pane. Oh and you can write in your own plugin. Facebook as an application anyone?
Central Ohio Day of .NET 2008 Recap
eBay suing Craigslist - You know it’s bad when your own investor is suing you.
Behold Wordpress, Destroyer of CPUs
Written by Tim on April 23rd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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jQuery Plugin of the day -Spoiler Effect.
CodeMash 2008 Podcast coming soon.
Surround SCM 2008.1 Ships - Grants likes at least 2 features
Multiple Update Panels - Who caused the update? (Asp.Net Ajax)
PayPal to block Safari? This won’t go over well, but surely a step in the right direction. 3 browsers is a crowd, death to Safari (only because it is the smallest market share and I’m sick of testing across 3 crappy platforms)
Written by Tim on April 22nd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Alan See talks about the Quality Ready Assessment a SDLC benchmarking score.
mRemote - My choice for Remote Desktop/VNC/Shell tabbed interface.
The end of Mowser - Looks like Mobile only focused sites might not be enough to hold up on their own.
ASP.NET Ajax and LINQ Cheatsheets
Community Server 2008 Released - Probably the leading commercial CMS/User group software.
Internal Vista Sales Video - Cheesy is a word that comes to mind. I’m actually really close to going back to XP (second time), I don’t think my laptop has enough to really run it well.
More about Microsoft Cloud Services
Written by Tim on April 17th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Enabling .htaccess in OS X - This almost drove me up a wall yesterday.
Using Django with Google Apps Engine
Extract Hard Coded Strings to Resource Files
TIOBE Programming Community Index for April 2008 - A ranking of popularity amount programming languages.
Written by Tim on April 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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We recently were in the car market because of a bad transmission on our Toyota Corrolla. As I was browsing thru the different online car dealers websites, I ran across a few that really impressed me from a tech/geekie view. These sites were using lightbox for car photos, had some really nice icon work, their search had multiple filters you could apply, real nice rollover effects on their grids, all really good web techniques were being displayed. I started noticing a trend that these sites were being made from the same mold, not exactly cookie cut, but defiantly produced by the same web shop. Today I figured out they were all produced from dealer.com.
Here is the list of technology they are using to make car sites really nice for once and what other technology they use that I could gleam from their source & site:
So here is a run down on their architecture and my choice if I was the evil mastermind behind the scene:
| Dealer.com | Mine | |
| Javascript Framework | jQuery | jQuery |
| Imaging Javascript | Thickbox | Thickbox |
| Ajax Framework | Ext JS | ASP.NET AJAX |
| Server Side Language | Java | C# |
| Database | MySQL | SQL Server |
| ORM | Hiberate | LINQ |
| Rich Application Framework | Flex | Silverlight |
Written by Tim on April 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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Hartija - CSS Print Framework - This looks like a promising addition to add to my library.
3 Tips for working with AjaxControlTookits’ TabContainer Control
How to Quickly and Easily print from Firefox - 1 click printing.
Scott Hanselman outtakes - hilarious
SearchStatus FireFox Plugin - shows Google PR, Alexa Rank & Complete ranking in your browser -via SEO Blackhat
MVC Storefront Series - For you ASP.NETers
37 jQuery Plugins - Yes jQuery is great.
Written by Tim on April 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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Techtoolblog might have been down yesterday and part of today. Had some issues with the domain name and registration with the Yahoo! small business people. A phone call later and they were able to fix the issue.
Super Mario Brothers in Javascript - Wow
Add Windows Explorer to Visual Studio
6 free web based WYSIWYG plugins
Written by Tim on April 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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