Archives
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Google Co-op — An Intro & Some Insider Hacks
OK so the buzz about Google Co-op is spreading fast. Now if you want to know more from the perspective of someone who created a personalized search page, check this deep article on the matter by Vik Singh.
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11 Killer Freebies for Your Pocket PC
Cool list of useful tools for your PocketPC and most of them free. My fav is eReader, because I use mostly my PDA as a developers reference where I can store all my best .Net books.
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Microsoft Overcomes Final Vista Hurdles, Heads to RTM
Paul Thurrott report on a last nasty bug Microsoft has found just before going to production on the latest Vista build.
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MCE Tunes for your Media Center
MCE Tunes, is a new plug-in that lets you play your iTunes music library, for free, through Media Center, as well as sync your library with Media Center’s. If you pay for the $29.99 full version, you can even play purchased DRM iTunes music.
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Roundtable is what you usually expect from Apple not Microsoft!
Wow, this is the proof that Microsoft Research are working on cool and serious stuff.
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ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 available
With ASP.NET AJAX, developers can quickly create pages with rich, responsive UI and more efficient client-server communication by simply adding a few server controls to their pages. This new Web development technology from Microsoft integrates cross-browser client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 development framework. ASP.NET AJAX provides developers building client-based Web experiences with a familiar development process and programming model that they already know from using server-side ASP.NET development. Because ASP.NET AJAX is integrated with ASP.NET, developers have full access to the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 application services and the entire .NET Framework.
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Internet Explorer 7, no thank you !
If you don't like critics on Microsoft don't read further!
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So Internet Explorer 7 is out but can you answer this ?
OK cool delighted to see IE 7 finally out of the woods. But for a while I have still to work with IE 6 (a lot of my customers (schools, teachers, etc...) are not at all techies and I need to make sure the code I do still works fine with IE 6 for at least the next year.
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Outlook 2007 good but not great
As a beta tester for Office 2007 I am up to date with the latest betas so I can say I really enjoy working with the new versions of Word and Excel.
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News Interceptor 3 Pocket for WM 5
News Interceptor 3 Pocket allows you to subscribe to your favorite news feeds on your Pocket PC device. If you use your Pocket PC with an Internet connection, you can grab all your news and read them directly with your device. Enjoy the functionalities of the PC version of News Interceptor on your handheld!
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Prevent Users from Submitting a Form Twice
Scott Mitchell has posted a nice tip to avoid people submitting twice a foprm by "freezing" the screen and display a message.
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Develop your own Blog
So many good blog engines exist on the web, so why would you like to build one? Well first to understand how it works, and then this could be useful for small projects where your client don't want something too complicated.
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Upload Files in ASP.NET 2.0
I wrote a recent project using some ideas from this excellent article
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Database Schema Comparison Utility
Thanks to Sean Goodpasture for this nifty application, something commercial applications have solved but with an hefty price.
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An Aqua Button Control Written in C# for .Net
Cool project! Done without even WPF!
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Another Simple Wait Page
Sometime you need to process a lengthy job in your web form. It is a better idea to build a wait page instead of letting your user just stare at the screen doing nothing.
There are a lot of solutions over Internet to accomplish this purpose. This solution isn't new, the initial idea is from Brian Dunnington's article Building a Better Wait Page in code project. Hardy on CodeProject have been using this approach for long time in ASP.NET 1.1. Since the release of ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft makes a lot easier to implement client side callback, Hardy decided to expand this solution to include AJAX function, so that we don't need to refresh the page from time to time. -
Steve Wozniak related to Pakistan ;-)
According to Amazon.com you should keep a **cough**suspicious**cough** eye on Steve Wozniak, the Apple genius.
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Media Convert very impressive service!
This is the kind of services Web 2.0 should provide! Media convert as the name suggest can convert a HUGE amount of different type of files to another (from Excel files to sound and videos).
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Record locking in databases with Ajax
David Perelman-Hall presents a client-based technique for record locking of multiuser data-driven web applications--and it all hinges on AJAX.
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Message Boards quest part 2
Interesting coments on my quest for a good Message Board.
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Message Board: which one are you using?
Finding a good Forums application is not an easy task. Of course I can develop one myself, but when you are on your own in your company, no way. So until now I used Pop Forums, but it seems that the developer has lost interest in the project, or he's just busy with something else.
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14 VB 2005 Gridview Samples
Hannes Preishuber has been busy collecting gridview samples.
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Regular Expression Library
Chad Finsterwald has collected inside a library an interesting collection of regular expressions you can use to match everyday tasks like dates, zip codes, etc...
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ASP.NET/ AJAX Page Loader Progress Bar/ Splash Screen
This is what's happens when you have an idea and you're not that fast ;-) Thanks to this article, I saved a lot of time writing something similar!