May 2008

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Daily Find #72

A peek at the Xobni offices

LINQ to PHPimage

Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 SP 2 released - Hopefully the web services got updated too, found a couple of critical bugs that have been reported to Microsoft.

10 Dot Com Bust and where they are now

DeepFriedBytes.com - A new podcast from Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff

Written by Tim on May 30th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Daily Find #71

imageI like FireFox 3 RC 1.  It still sucks up some memory but it is faster.  I got most of my extensions working, minus Google Toolbar which I use for bookmarking (if only bookmarking sites were around in the late 90’s, I had some great sites I use to visit). You would think the company supporting FireFox could get their plugin to work the quickest right? Grant stopped by yesterday and said he doesn’t really use FireFox extensions so no big deal for him.  He doesn’t know the power of the dark side extensions.  Typical MAC guy :)    

FireBug 1.2b1 - Works really nicely on FireFox 3

VB 2008 IDE Tips & Tricks - For you VB people, which apparently is a lot.

SystInternal Tools live - A simple file listing site, oh the good old days… via Greg Hughes

More stuff about Android and how it rocks - I told you so

Written by Tim on May 29th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Daily Find #70

imageOut last week on vacation, caught a nice 10 lb catfish at the Kentucky Lake.  I’m going to retire there someday.

Microsoft PDC Registration Open

Speed up access to your favorite ajax libraries api via Google

Free Visual Studio Plugin to format your markup

Microsoft Roadshow coming to Mason Ohio June 12

Northwind Demo For ASP.NET MVC Preview 3

UFrame - UpdatePanel + iFrame

Written by Tim on May 28th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Daily Find #69

Another reason to not like Google - They are definitely doing more evil.

Switching source control systems?  Should you really import or start fresh?

Intellisense for jQuery

NHAML - Dave raves about haml for Rails, now a clone for MVC asp.net.

Written by Tim on May 20th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Daily Find #68

Where have all the bloggers gone?  I think they all moved to twitter…

PHP 6 Futures - Goodness of namespaces, better handling of SOAP & XML….

8 useful server variables available in PHP - If you do PHP you probably already know these.

Getting Image meta data out with C# - Just found out yesterday MediaWiki has this built in.

Rietveld - Google’s own code review software

Comcast buys Plaxo - 150 million, dang why didn’t I write Plaxo…

Written by Tim on May 15th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Daily Find #67

Android handset preview - looking really good.  Going to give Apple/Blackberry/Microsoft a run for their money.

Super Fast Shutdown A tool to make you Windows XP laptops shut down in under 5 seconds.

Monitoring IBM DB2 with Nagios

WinBubble - Customize and Tweak Vista

FireFox RC 1  Code Complete Released

Written by Tim on May 12th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Drupal UI improvement

First of all Drupal administration UI is different, not all bad, but definitely different.  It has a clean look & feel to it but there is not a logical placement of where to edit things, etc… Compared to Joomla UI is doesn’t stack up, but on the good side it actually works much better then Joomla or DotNetNuke (whose admin UI also takes a while to get used to).  Maybe it’ll grow on me or at least I’ll understand their logic.

I was racking my brain trying to figure out how to enable the forums in the navigation section.  I could clearly see where it was disabled but couldn’t for the life of me figure out where to enable it.

Here is the UI of it:

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Clearly it’s disabled, right?  Turns out although the checkbox looks disabled, in reality to turn it on you are suppose to select it anyway’s. Come on guys, things that look disabled are suppose to act disabled. 

Written by Tim on May 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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Daily Find #66

GraphicLeftOvers.com - Interesting idea for design work that never sold.

Free Mind Mapping Application

Searching for data in a large SQL database - This will come in handy.

Blackberry 9000 first look - I’m not that impressed, I expected a little more with the iPhone pushing the mobile boundaries.

Written by Tim on May 9th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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Daily Find #65

Free essential guides for SQL Server - A nice list here for newbies.

Is Twitter a better search engine than Google? - Interesting idea

13 ASP.NET Validation Control Tips/Tricks.

jTree 1.0  lightweight sortable nested list for jQuery

jQuery Horizontal Accordion Example.

Written by Tim on May 8th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Daily Find #64

Jeff writes about SCM tools and auto notifications - Push verse Pull technologies

Scott Gu Links List for April 28.

Drupal Modules - Ranting and Rankings of Drupal Plugins. via John Berns

ASP.NET MVC books coming your way

Are you a Linked in Whore? - My thoughts exactly

Written by Tim on May 7th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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