July 2008
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2008 July edition.
FireFox 3 – Extensions have made this my main browser
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. 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.
iTunes – I use iTunes to manage my podcast listening list. It does a great job at that.
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.
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.
mRemote – Where would I be with out this terminal services manager.
Notepad++ – My texteditior and most of the time PHP ide of choice. Fast, simple, customizable, a few nice plugins.
Witty Twitter Client – Definitely the best looking Twitter client. Witty is WPF and WPF done nice.
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…
Fireworks – I guess the new photoshop has most of these features, so that will work too.
Blackberry Manager – For upgrading your firmware on your crackberry and other crackberry tasks.
WinSCP – A free opensource SFTP manager for when you have to work on the nix machines.
FileZilla – Free, open source, clean, simple FTP client.
SlickEdit – A nicer version of notepad++
Navicat – My preferred mysql manager of choice, although their query interface needs improvement.
7Zip – Can handle tar, zip, gz, and other compressed formats, free too.
CodeIgniter – Loving this PHP MVC framework. Simpler then cakePHP. I’m building a little something, something in this, more to come on that front.
CCleaner – Free PC crap cleaner.
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.
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
Written by Tim on July 29th, 2008 with 12 comments.
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Best ways to obfuscate email address
Check all checkboxes with jQuery
Live Mesh on OS X. Hey I signed up for the beta a long time ago, where’s my invite?
50 jQuery examples
Defraggler – From the CCleaner guys, a simple hard disk defragger
Written by Tim on July 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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I’m sad pathetic. My blog now consist of daily find posts and nothing else lately. All my good ideas go on twitter and are contained in 140 characters.
Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 portal updated
Using scriptmanager with other frameworks
Top 100 Web Celebrities – Imagine, I didn’t make the list, maybe next year
Wordpress 2.6 with Google Gears support
List of lightbox clones
Written by Tim on July 15th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release – I actually took some time to learn PHP Code Igniter MVC to get a better handle on MVC then work with Microsoft’s beta stuff.
Transparent .png in IE 6
CakePHP Debug Styles – Although I prefer Code Igniter, CakePHP is really starting to take off.
Web Based Tools for Optimizing, Formatting and Checking CSS
Windows Vista Compatiblity Center beta – Ah, they needed this, oh say, 1.5 years ago…
Written by Tim on July 14th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Tackling Scalability Issues – Video of Cuong Do, founder of YouTube talking about their issues
Rapid CRUD with Linq
C# twitter library – using it on a project I am working on
SQL Server 2008 coming in August
BuiltWith.com – Punch in a URL and it will tell you what technology the site is built with.
Written by Tim on July 10th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Microsoft has no worries about losing developers to Google. Have you ever dealt with Google? They have poor customer service, their API’s documentation is all over the place and they consider everything “beta” so that’s the excuse you’ll end up hearing. On a positive note, I’ve been nicotine free for 5 days now! Downside is I’m grumpy and more opinionated then usual, so much so I’m thinking over spinning up a new political blog.
Accessing Amazon S3 with Silverlight
Show Page Load Time with ASP.NET
How to automate a PDF output in Great Plains report
Desktop 360 goes beta – Looking at this right now
Make full backups of iPod, USB by imaging
Test stability of PC with Heavy Load
Written by Tim on July 8th, 2008 with no comments.
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Going thru my old books at my parents house, I found my Fables of Aesop. Plan on reading that and Declaration of Independence this 4th of July Weekend.
Modern Web Browsers and their Development Tools
Google Talk for iPhone released – Had this for a long time with the crackberry, but do they get AIM integration?
ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap published – I would love to see them drop the asp.net ajax engine and turn onto jquery…
Blackberry Thunder – Now that is what I’m talking about, probably just in the nix of time too, but I’ll wait for v2 anyway’s.
Build Ajax Apps with Ext JS – A walk thru of Ext JS.
Written by Tim on July 3rd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Back at basketball this morning for the first time in 2 weeks. I was expecting the worst but somehow I played better then I have in months. Crazy. On another note Firefox 3 has become unstable and slow. I’m trying uninstalling extensions but it’s not getting better.
Digg Architecture – Of course it’s PHP, that’s why it has pretty good uptime.
Tables or Tabless Design – This question might never go away. The answer is pretty simple. Tables are for data grids and forms. Divs should hold the basic layout of the page. Enough already.
Keeping Talent in Ohio – If you don’t live in Ohio you can pass on this one.
Community Coding Contest Site Launched
Written by Tim on July 1st, 2008 with 4 comments.
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