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[link] favicon.ico generator
Favorite icons (a.k.a favicon.ico) are cool. IE recognizes them when you save bookmark a page, Mozilla based browsers automatically request them. They're a nice finishing touch on a website, but not something that's usually scheduled or requested.
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[code snippet] Dynamic copyright year
If you're involved at all with websites, there's a reasonable chance that your first e-mail of 2005 will be marked with a red bang (!) and have the following subject line:
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[OT] Maths Quiz
Think your smart? Well your not. Take this quiz and you can know that your dumb.
Look Around You - Maths Quiz
If you still think your smart than you should also take this programming quiz. To know what kind of programmer you are:
SecretGeek - What kind of programmer are you?
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[OT] Give the Gift of Google (super bargain!)
I'd really like to believe this is a joke...
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[tip] Use Freecache to distribute large files
One of my small contributions to the Monoppix project[1] has been setting up hosting for the ISO. As we expected, distributing an ISO that's even remotely popular requires some serious bandwidh. Since the Monoppix 0.2.2.3 Preview Release was posted in August, it's been downloaded 11,067 times. At 404 MB per download, that's 4.47 TB, over 1.1 TB per month.[2]
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[util] XPKeepPerUserDisplaySettings
I share a home computer with my wife and 3 year old daughter, Rosemary. As a computer nerd, I can't go below 1280x1024 on the screen resolution, while my wife likes 1024x768 and Rosemary uses 640x480.[1]
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[Util] Updated - Open Playlist in Windows Media
Back in April I wrote a very basic console app which would (theoretically) allow you to play Shoutcast Playlists (PLS files) in Windows Media Player.[1] I say theoretically because in practice, I've been fielding a large amount of support requests from hapless users having trouble setting up the file associations, checking if they have .NET installed, etc.
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[OT] Leave it to a computer professional to spoil a beautiful moment
Software Architect / Visionary / Philosopher Michael Earls, while working on a contract far from home in Atlanta, muses:
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Firefox Plugin - Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any webpage to change it's behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a webpage's style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a webpage's design or interaction.
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Surfacing - been busy with a large ASP.NET project
I've been pretty silent on my blog lately due to time pressures at work. That's easing up a bit, and I'm very eager to start posting again, about (1) what I've learned on this project, and (2) other things I've been wanting to post about but haven't had time.
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XmlPreprocess and conditional web.config wishes
Loren Halvorson wrote about XmlPreprocess. It allows you to add some basic logic and token replacement to XML config files, like ASP.NET web.config files, like this: