Today, Adam Kinney gave me the tip off to some cool news: Inkscape is adding XAML export . Great, what's Inkscape ? Glad you asked! Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, like Adobe Illustrator. Rather than drawing in pixels (like you'd do in Photoshop, Paint.NET, etc.), you're drawing in...

Visual Studio 2008 has been out for over a week. I've upgraded three machines (two Vista, one XP) from Beta 2 to RTM, then upgraded a couple of projects. I've also been watching blog posts and listening in at the Twitter water-cooler to hear about other developers' experiences, problems, and recommendations...

CSS editing is extremely frustrating without immediate feedback. Until a few years ago, you didn't really have a choice: you typed some CSS, you refreshed the page, you tried to figure out what was wrong, repeat until you hopefully got it working. Then came the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar , and things...

IE7 RC1 is out, so my launcher script needed an update. You can get it here . Read the previous relase announcement here . Note: Yousif's IE7 Standalone is a little easier to install - it automatically downloads the IE7 installation package for you. Rather than duplicate his efforts, I asked Yousif for...

Update 10/23/06 for the IE7 Release version Summary I just released a new version of the IE7 Standalone Launcher . Due to changes in this beta release of IE7, a simple batch file alone won't cut it. You can grab a zip package (two batch files, two reg files) on the new tools.veloc-it.com site. Finally...

event:Selectors is a really nice wrapper for the Prototype.js library. It allows you to hook Javascript events to CSS classes with 2 or 3 lines of Javascript code: '#icons a:mouseout, #other-item:mouseover' : function(element) { var app = element.id; new Effect.BlindUp(app + '-content' , {queue: 'end...

Summary You can make websites effects with plenty of glitter using simple, standards compliant HTML through the use Javascript effect libraries which operate on CSS classes. I'll talk about why I think it's important, and if you stick with me, I'll point you to some of my favorite lightweight Javascript...

I'm setting up a new dev computer and used MozBackup to migrate all my Firefox extensions. It goes better than that - it also supports copying the extension settings, saved passwords, history, and a bunch of other stuff [1] . It was kind of spooky when I restored it on my new computer and (since I'm...

If you're a diehard Internet Explorer user, you might not know how great the Firefox Web Developer Extension is. This IE Toolbar isn't as good, but it's still pretty cool. Web Accessibility Toolbar - Wow this is cool. Page validation, browser resizing, CSS validation & manipulation, image lists,...

Chris Sells recent post about URL spoofing quoted his wife asking "How is anyone supposed to know that?" There were some good comments on how to detect, filter, alert, or educate around the problem of URL spoofing, in which an e-mail or site shows a link that pretends to take you to one domain but takes...