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Finally - a *good* GMail client
A friend of mine that works at the California State Bar IM'd me today to tell me about a GMail client that a co-worker of his Johnvey Hwang has built. I downloaded and installed it, and lo and behold, it works great! I had tried a couple of different GMail clients before, but they all had little annoyances with them that lead me to uninstall and stop using them. So far though, no annoyances detected with this one. Good job Johnvey!
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Supressing the 'Save As...' dialog with Acrobat PDFWriter 5.0
I noticed over on Jason Bock's blog he had been writing a little bit about some PDF development he'd been doing - so I thought it might be appropriate for me to chime in with a little helpful info of my own involving PDF development.
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The Complete Reference - JavaScript 2nd Edition - Review Part 1
A couple days ago I received my copy of this book from Osborne/McGraw-Hill. (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript (a.k.a “DHTML“) isn't going away any time soon so I felt now was as good a time as any to start further educating myself on one of the most used languages of the web - JavaScript. I've previously read a couple of Thomas Powell's web development books and I really like his style of writing. It's clear and concise and he rarely leaves pertinent information uncovered. This book has been no exception so far. I've read through the first 4 chapters and it's already taught me a few things about JavaScript.
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Language Wars and Developer's Dirty Laundry
After reading Carl's thoughts on this page, and then LazyCoder's comments, it was Rory's post that finally provoked enough emotion in me to want to weigh in with my 2 cents. And Rory, don't worry man, I fell for the whole Nike Swoosh gimmick too - and I'm far too embarassed to mention how old I was before I came to the same realization you did.
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Setting the System Default Printer with Visual Basic 6
I know this doesn't exactly qualify as “.NET” knowledge but, it's something I've had to battle with for a while so I thought I would post it in case anyone else finds it as helpful as I have.
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Writing and coding - deadlines siphon out the fun
I was chatting with a friend on instant message tonight. We got to talking about how we enjoy coding and enjoy writing about technical things. He was telling me about how a couple of years ago he had sent some emails off to someone at APress after thinking of writing a book. The route the conversation took after that was interesting though. We both agreed that when writing articles or book chapters for a publisher, or even doing technical reviewing for books, pressures such as deadlines or word counts often seem to take the fun out of writing, whether it be code for software or text for an article or book.
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Managing Websites and Paging Content
I've given this subject a good amount of thought and still haven't come up with something I'm happy with so I'm putting the question out there for the public to chew on.
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Google Creating a Personalized Search?
I'm not really sure what the details surrounding this are, but I found it looking through my referral logs. Looks interesting. I'm going to spend some time playing with it later.