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Daily Find #84

Tim — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:41:19 +0000

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.

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Daily Find #83

Tim — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:55:26 +0000

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

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Daily Find #82

Tim — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:42:24 +0000

Woot! I passed the Microsoft 70-536 MCTS exam today! 93%. If you are taking the test, do yourself a favor and get the TestKing practice exam, you’ll thank me later.

Top 10 Free Windows Web Dev IDEs – A nice list

jQuery AJAX Tutorial

PHP Speedy - making fewer HTTP requests, adding a far-future expires header, gzipping your page’s components, and minifying your JavaScript, CSS and HTML

Setting up mySQL replication in 10 minutes

Why you should have more than 1 runtime environment

Google API for Finance Released – Now where is the Analytics API?

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Daily Find #81

Tim — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:27:38 +0000

We have a smart car in the parking lot today. I’ve been thinking about those recently but found out it only gets 40-50 MPG. For me to buy, I want something in the 80 MPG range or runs off of electric.

PickyDomains – Domain service that helps you pick a name.

FireTune – Firefox 3 hacks to improve speed.

5 Hours of Free Microsoft BI training

ASP.NET MVC Portal

New Tools to Prevent SQL injection attacks

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Daily Find #80

Tim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:47:03 +0000

Sales Guy vs Web Dude – This is fall out of your chair funny.

SproutCore – Apple’s open source JS library.

Diary of a failed startup

Screen cast on rounded corners

Visual Studio as a Iron Python IDE

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Daily Find #79

Tim — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:34:30 +0000

Wow, 4 days in Myrtle Beach with my older brother and his friends have put a drain on my brain. Golf was good, my game not so much. One thing we found out is technology is so wonderful, thank god for Tom Tom GPS and Google Maps on my blackberry…

RubyStack for Windows Released

New YSlow with FF 3 support

Learning MooTools

Setting up compression with IIS

Classic 1970 Microsoft employee photo, then and now.

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