April 2008

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Daily Find #62

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

jQuery Combo Selector

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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Daily Find #61

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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Daily Find #60

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.

Twitter API talk

5 iPhone Twitter Hacks

Written by Tim on April 24th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Daily Find #59

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

Online JSON Editor

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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Daily Find #58

jQuery Plugin of the day -Spoiler Effect.

CodeMash 2008 Podcast coming soon.

Surround SCM 2008.1 Ships - Grants likes at least 2 features

QA Wizard Pro 2007.3 Ships

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)

FireFox 3 about.config hacks.

Written by Tim on April 22nd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Daily Find #57

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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Daily Find #56

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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Dealer.com - Impressed

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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Daily Find #55

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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Daily Find #54

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.

iPhone SDK Beta 3 Released

Super Mario Brothers in Javascript - Wow

Add Windows Explorer to Visual Studio

Cache between sites

Gantt Chart in Excel

6 free web based WYSIWYG plugins

Written by Tim on April 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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