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Got my Xobni invite yesterday, I’m totally loving it, review to come shortly.
Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains 11 Sneak Peak - Invoices via Word.
45+ Fresh out of the oven jQuery Plugins - jQuery is my choice for javascript library these days. This is a really nice list.
Laptop Guts make Great Picture Frames - How to make your old laptop lcd a nice digital frame.
Written by Tim on March 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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Xobini - Outlook plugin, gives you stats, social feel to Outlook. I’m trying to get in the beta to test it out.
Wordpress 2.5 Sneak Peek - via Datapoohbah
Acid 3 Test Released - These test are tainted to start with, but still interesting to see how the different browsers render this.
Getting Started with IronRuby - Oh I’m waiting until it releases but if you can’t start here…
Written by Tim on March 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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Database Continuous Integration in .NET
IIS Bit Rate Throttling released
Microsoft Data Centers - Interview with Michael Manos, Senior Director of Data Center Services at Microsoft
Another Reason To get your Taxes Done : Get Your Stimulus Check Sooner - Low down on when to expect your refund checks.
Written by Tim on March 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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Transmission went out in the Corolla, had to buy a new car, today I sprained my ankle playing basketball at lunch, hasn’t been my week.
3 Request for ASP.NET 4 and VS 10 - All three would be so nice.
Rackspace goes Mosso - So Mosso is a hosting that allows you to run PHP/CGI/Ruby/.NET all from the same hosting. Their management interface is really nice and their tech support is decent/good. Only gripe is their servers are slow, maybe Rackspace can improve here.
Dark Cloud VS Scheme from Roy O
New Features coming to LINQ to SQL
Written by Tim on March 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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StickyNotes VS 2008 Addin - A nice addon that lets you keep a Sticky Note per cs or vb file.
Ohio Day of .NET sessions released
Google I/O Conference Announced
Super Tables - Javascript that takes a normal html table and makes it feel like a grid.
Written by Tim on March 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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The site is getting a redesign this weekend
iPhone and Exchange to play nicely
iPhone SDK - Finally Google and Apple square of. iPhone vs Android.
AJAX Forms never submitted twice
Visual LINQ - Watch query expressions as they happen!
Written by Tim on March 7th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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I watched the MIX08 keynote yesterday live. Something’s I took away from it: Sorry Ray Ozzie is seriously boring, his keynote wasn’t inspiring, informative, or appealing. I’m glad Microsoft is catching up with the cloud, they are at least 2 years behind Google (last year they were 4 years so they are making progress). They are really pushing Silverlight hard, even selling out to Nokia to get it on their phone. IE 8 looks promising, web slices look good, CSS 2.1, and HTML 5 goodness. Scott Gu is still the man, watch out Ray 
ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Screen Cast Tutorials
Microsoft Yahoo! launching OnePlace for Mobile Bookmarking
Google Calendar Synch - Finally a supported way to synch to Outlook
Written by Tim on March 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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Office Live Workspaces beta - Almost a Google Docs competitor but still appears you need to have word/excel/ppt locally and this saves it up in the cloud. Does come with versioning and sharing. You can download a msi that puts a "Save to Cloud" right in Word/Excel/PPT which is much better then doing a file upload. I can see using this as a backup solution.
Six Month in the Inside - Am I evil yet? - A peek from Scott H about working at Microsoft.
Essential Software to Install on a new computer - From Roy O, a little dated but still relevant.
LinqPad Webinar posted by O’Reilly
ScrewTurn Wiki 2.0.27 Released
Links to Linq - This is a really nice list of everything LINQ
Written by Tim on March 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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Tag Cloud Filters wth ASP.NET 3.5. - I’ve said it before, but Matt Berseth is the man.
One Million Objects in c# - How long do you thing it takes? Answer before clicking.
Ajax Control Toolkit Update Released - A nice list of bug fixes. Good to see MS not abandoning this framework.
5 things to do if you are NOT going to Mix - Gambling at the local river boat is not one of them.
Visual Studio Gallery - One the main reasons I stay a MS Developer is because of the goodness that is VS, here a bunch of nice Add Ins to make it even better.
Written by Tim on March 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Since upgrading to Vista SP1 RTM my IE 7 is broke, more to come on this…
User Agent String Utility 2.0 - Opens a IE 7 window but identifies itself to the web as IE 6.
Building a LinkedIn Style Address Book with ListView & LINQ
Javascript Function Tips & Tricks
Google Talk chatback - Going to try this out on my blog soon, oh wait already did, chat me up.
Written by Tim on February 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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