Archives
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[OT] Animated short film - Ryan
No way for this meme to become tired. You will need time and bandwidth to see these animated shorts.
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[firefox] Pass on the 1.0.1 release
Mozilla Foundation Announces Update to Firefox - 1.0.1 is out for you Firefox users.
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[tip] Knoppix cheat code for Virtual PC Video
Summary
Enter this "cheat code" at the initial startup prompt when using Knoppix based Linux Live CD's under Virtual PC:
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[ASP.NET] Scaleout Server - Distributed in-memory ASP.NET session state
Most server-farm applications store fast-changing workload data, such as ASP.NET session-state, in a centralized, back-end database. A new software product, called ScaleOut StateServer , improves performance by hosting session-state directly on the farm using distributed, in-memory storage.
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[code] ASP.NET Busy Box 1.2 (Processing... Please Wait)
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[code] How to create a splash screen for your application
Cool code from David Kean to add a professional looking Splash Screen for a .NET Winform app:
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Favorite .NET linkblogs
When work or family interfere with my information addiction (I'm up to 1594 RSS feeds now [update: see comment below]), I rely on a crack team of linkbloggers to keep me caught up until I can slog through the thousands of unread posts:
http://www.larkware.com/
http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com
http://odetocode.com/Blogs/otcnews/
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ (not technically a linkblog, but he usually catches all the best stuff)
[update: http://www.theserverside.net/rss/index.tss is also pretty helpful, although I don't read it daily if I'm short on time]
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A term for those cool new Google Apps: Ajax
Darren points to a cool article from Adaptive Path that gives a new term for the cool apps Google has been building lately: Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML).
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[link] CSS Based Dropdown Menus (updated)
Scott's articleAn Easier Way to Highlight the Rows of a DataGrid on MouseOver included a link to an old ALA article on the
Suckerfish Dropdown[updated] - see the improved Son of Suckerfish Dropdown! -
Joel got it wrong - Why learning C is a waste of your college time and money
Back in January, Joel Spoelsky wrote a Career Advice column. It gave some generally good advice to college students, the main points being:
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[utils] Strings in binaries - strings.exe
A while ago, I was searching through IIS DLL's looking for a specific error message. Like most things, there's my way and the easy way.