Archives
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Still not convinced Google is Evil?
From Jeremie, a proof that Google at the end of the day is just another evil company?
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Vint Cerf podcast
Vint Cerf is one of the Internet founders and now since he joined Goggle few months ago, this podcast give a glimpse on Google plans for 2006.
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Flash Control for ASP.NET 2.0
FlashControl is a free ASP.NET 2.0 server control which allow you to add swf Flash movies in your ASP.NET 2.0 projects. As any WebControl, you can add FlashControl in Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox, and just drag and drop it in your ASP.NET web pages !
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Merry Christmas
All the best for today for all of you, and please have some thoughts for the turkey.
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Truth what truth?
Via Damir, I found this amazing experience to show that in our world not a lot of images from the magazines are genuine.
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XBmas
I received a nice Happy Christmas email from Damir Tomicic (INETA Europe) followed by this.
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Free Online course on ASP.Net 2.0
Thanks to Scott and also Brad McCabe for their help. Like some other couldn’t sign in to have access to the online course provided by Microsoft.
To the eLearning team, guys you should seriously rethink the usability of your site, this really sucks. The number of clicks and guesses I have to do to find out the right page was quite unbelievable. -
innerHTML maybe time to use it again
In a cross browser development, it’s really difficult to use non standards DOM methods. A good example is innerHTML
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Advent calendar for web developers
It’s Christmas time and geeks can have fun too. Check 24ways a nice site made for web developers.
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Color Palette Creator
Inspired by Andy Clarke's article on creating color palettes, this small app will take a base color in hex format and create a palette of ten shades of that color for you.
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Cross-browser gradient backgrounds without images
This experiment allows for gradient backgrounds on elements by defining a six character hex value for the start and end color as part of the class attribute. No background-images are required. This has been tested and verified to work in MSIE6, Firefox 1.0.7, Safari 2.0.1, Opera 7.5 & 8.5 on Windows 2K, XP and OS X.
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Switching style sheets on the fly Ajax style
The Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher combines the power of Server Side processing and DOM scripting to swap style sheets on the fly with the power of Ajax. If JavaScript is disabled - UDASSS degrades gracefully to improve your website accessibility. Needless to say, it is very sexy indeed.
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12 sets of tabs menu
Woow! Check this incredible cool free sets of menus here by ExplodingBoy, very useful
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SQL connection...
Thanks to all for the answers on my SQL connection issue, but weird to have so many different suggestions and sadly nothing is still working :-(
I can clearly see the instances if I use SQL Browser, from SQL 2005 to SQL 2000 or vice versa, but I can't make them talking to each other, stubbornly deaf! -
Domestics, the blogging way
It’s really something strange and out of this world when Scoble’s wife, Maryam argue with her husband. A bit surreal but with an happy ending.
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Can't connect to any SQL 2005 or 2000 databases :-(
SQL 2005 works well on my machine, but I am abolutly unable to connect to any remote SQL 2005 or SQL 2000 instance. I tried to connect to my wireless laptop (I removed any Firewall to be sure about the issue) but nada, nothing happens.
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Interview with Clare Dillon
In case you don’t know who is Clare Dillon, she’s the person I stay in touch almost every day regarding the organisation of community events in Ireland. Clare is surely the most dynamic person I ever met in Microsoft, and she show her ‘vavavoom’ in this interview with Damien Mulley.
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Almost a year ago...
I know it's December, people are thinking about Christmas and how to stuff their turkey, but I can't stop thinking about a year ago, on this day just after Christmas in Thailand, something which has forever changed the way I am thinking about life.
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Building a 3 columns layout with CSS and the columns size fixed
A lot of sites now are using CSS instead of tables to have a lighter markup. First you can find an interesting compilation of 3 columns CSS layout methods here.
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Another Ajax Desktop
Seems to be in to develop Ajax Desktop applications in a browser. The latest one is XIN, some cool ideas there but be aware slow for some reasons on some demos.
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Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile
Excellent new series (this is the part one) which I found very useful written by Scott Mitchell.
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Web 2.0 Validator
This is a fun one check by yourself if your site pass the web 2.0 validation ;-)
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New Web project model option - really they listen :-)
Really glad to see that Microsoft is listening. This is really a new era for the relations between the developers community and the big boys.
I think Scott Guthrie deserve the kudos for the job done, and I am please to see that the rants and the complaints many have expressed about the web projects lack of reliability and compatibility with the previous versions will come soon to an end.
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Fix what fix for: The IDE stops responding when you modify C# code in Visual Studio 2005 ?
Just curious but Scott Cate if you read this post, why the KBalertz site list this fix since last week and when you click on the link you have just an error page?
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Colorize your black and white pictures
I would like to know in which language this guy (can’t find his name) has developed this software but this is really sweet utility. You take a B&W picture, add some markings and you get a colour version! Like to see this as a Photoshop plugin.
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Windows XP on a USB key
Running Linux off a flash drive is quite common nowadays but XP is more challenging.
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Winpooch Open source anti spyware
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Sudoku Solver Web Service
Robert Burke with is usual sense of humour has developed with Visual Studio Express 2005 a Sudoku Solver, and you can consume as a web service :-)
Sources are also available, now who want to do an Avalon UI for that! -
ASP.NET Security Faq
If you are looking after some good materials regarding security with ASP.NET 2.0 (Authentication, Authorization, Auditing and Logging, etc..) check this Faq published on Channel 9.
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Changing password policy settings in Membership provider
The default password strength is set to a minimum password length of 7 characters with at least 1 non-alphanumeric character for both SqlMembershipProvider and ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.
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[OT] Muppets have a podcast
I am mad absolutly mad about the Muppets, and now they manage to catch up with our modern world. Yes they are doing podcasts, well videocasts should be the word, reviewing all the latest movies. See Statler and Waldorf in a hilarious review of Doom the movie is so cool.
Maybe my favourite character would be the Swedish Chef talking about the Dukes of Hazzard. Well he’s cooking a pair of Daisy Dukes jeans :-)
Surreal! Insane this is the Muppet show.
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Robert Scoble in Dublin - The videos
Hey we manage to get the Channel 9 guy in Dublin for our monthly INDA meeting. Check the video here
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ASP.Net 2.0 Quickstart Tutorial
Woow! This is so cool an ASP.Net 2.0 tutorial found in the UK community site Developerfusion. Really nicely done!
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Les Blogs 2.0
Do you know what Robert Scoble do when he’s visiting Paris? Talking about blogging in Paris for example, with Shel Israel about their book Naked Conversations.
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FIX: The IDE stops responding when you modify C# code in Visual Studio 2005
It seems that the VS team are working hard on fixing the issues with Visual Studio. Just received this KB Alert by Scott Cate (the link is not working currently) and the email contains a link to a fix for this ‘The IDE stops responding when you modify C# code in Visual Studio 2005’. Not sure what does fix, but maybe it has something to do with what I experienced randomly with the IDE.
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INDA meeting yesterday night with Robert Scoble
What a great night, Scoble was in good form (see my previous post :-) and after a break we had also an Experts panel answering questions about the .Net tools. Most of the discussion turned around Visual Studio 2005 and its reliability. Do we need to consider the current bugs as a major hurdle or do we need to embrace the new stuff and move on?
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Robert Scoble Blog Addict?
I don’t think so :-) Picture taken at our lunch (hmm) in the famous Dublin pub Cafe En Seine! Thanks to Robert for his nice post
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Top Ten Ways To Pump Up IIS Performance
If you host one or more Web sites that receive a lot of traffic, IIS performance is important to you. To enhance performance, you could always cluster your IIS servers or buy more bandwidth, but this tends to be a little expensive.