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Media Portal Rocks!
I've been looking for some good software for my Media PC that runs under Windows. Linux appears to be ahead of the game with open source packages such as MythTV. I finally found Media Portal which rivals the Linux offerings and blows away anything else I've seen on Windows (except maybe Microsoft's Media Center, but I dont' want to buy a new PC for this). And best of all it is free and written in C#.
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Daily Dilbert Image Service
No web portal is complete without a Dilbert comic strip! Scott Adams provides a daily dilbert comic on Dilbert.com. This strip is made available by eSynaps through a web service. The only problem with this approach is to integrate it into your web site requires code. For example, hooking this into my SharePoint portal is a problem. So I created this small web project to server up the image directly through a HttpHandler and cache it for better performance. Enjoy!
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Mono on Linux on Windows?
I'm not sure of the value of this, but it was sure fun! Here is a screen shot of Mono running on RedHat Linux running in a Virtual PC session on Windows XP Pro. To take it to the next level, I accessed ASP.NET pages servered by the Mono XSP server and ran a GTK# app through VNC back on my Windows XP session! I hope you enjoy the screen shot. (sorry, the ASP.NET part isn't shown)
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Need MySql for .NET 1.0?
If you need the ByteFX MySQL Provider compiled for .NET Framework 1.0, download it here. I compiled version 0.76 under .NET 1.0 since you can only download this release compiled for 1.1 from the project page.
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SharpDbSchema Updates
I just posted a new release of SharpDbSchema. Check it out, the web-based schema browser is my favorite new goody.