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Fajax -- the fake alternative to ajax
If you don't have the time to build a real Ajax thing, these 2 lines in your HEAD section page can remove easily the flicker effect on your page (only for Internet Explorer anyway). This is really great for admin tools or Intranet (in my case all my users works with IE).
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Solving Sudoku with SQL
This is what I called a fun project, in all its weirdness, solving sudoku thing with T-SQL. At least if you show that in a job interview for a DBA role, you are sure to be hired!
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I knew it I could have ruled the world :-)
Outcast Genius
56 % Nerd, 95% Geek, 60% DorkFor The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.
Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject).
Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius.
Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: 
You scored higher than 42% on nerdiness You scored higher than 99% on geekosity You scored higher than 95% on dork points -
New Office 2007 video
Cool, now you can have a better idea about the new UI in Office 2007, much better than screenshots. -
Useful CSS tool
If like me your work rely on CSS and you have to manage lengthy CSS files, then time to use this nifty CSS tool: CSS Tweak.
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Windows back to the early ages
Interesting reading this reprint of a Byte article from 1983 (Byte was my favorite reading of the time, wonder whta happens to this excellent magazine) , almost 2 years before the official release of the first Windows.
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Micro CMS - a free and simple Ajax base content management
Wow really cool, check by yourself the demo here, a simple but nice concept using Ajax, Micro CMS. Like to see how to adapt this for .Net and Atlas.
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Vista delayed so what?
OK everybody heard about Vista launch delayed so what is the big problem here? After all it's only for the better.
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Internet Explore 7 new beta
Just released yesterday a new Beta for IE 7
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iBloks cool demo of WPF
I just start to catch up with the cool stuff shown at Mix 06, and thanks to this blog everybody can see almost live what's going on there.
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Microsoft vision
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Vista officially launched in November
Well Marie Jo Foley seems to have some sources telling the official launch for Vista is November.
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Ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) Display Emulator Beta
That was fast! Thanks to Microsoft, developers have now an emulator to try their applications oon Origami/UMPC platforms.
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A brief history of Microsoft on the web
Nostalgia, nostalgia :-) Read this fascinating article about Microsoft.com from the very beginning written in 2000!
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Google buy Writely
Probably another step for some sort of online services, it's official Writely is now part of Google.
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The New Microsoft Office User Interface Overview
Microsoft has revealed at the Cebit what seems to be the final look for Office 2007 User Interface.
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Origami the real story behind the viral campaign
I think the whole Origami story is an excellent case study for wannabees marketers.
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SQL 2005 meeting yesterday
Thanks to Michael Rhys for an excellent session yesterday on SQL 2005 SOA (or SODA).
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DotLucene - The Fastest Open Source Fulltext Search Engine for .NET
DotLucene is a powerful open-source search engine for .NET:
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SubText for weblogs.asp.net?
OK just be aware this is just my opinion but since we were promised months ago an evolution of .Text on weblogs.asp.net, I can see clearly that nobody is really in charge and the Community Server 2.0 migration (promised for last January!) is not happening. I am not a big fan of CS for many reasons, bloated code, licence issues, etc...
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Channel 9 TV soon?
Viral marketing is definitely a new weapon for Microsoft. After all the Origami stories, now it's time to turn our attention to Channel9. It seems that some project to create an TV show for developers is on the way.
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Origami - Is it the real picture or fake one??
A picture has appeared on OrigamiPortal which seems to be the real deal. Sounds cool, even if the screen looks smaller than expected (fake or not up to you to decide!)
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[OT] Real life Simpsons
OK so it's Sunday and ussually at 6.30pm (GMT) we have here in Ireland a new Simpsons episode. Not today sadly! But anyway some folks have found an hilarious way to fill my Sunday. Check this real life Simpsons intro, so funny. Well done :-)
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Building a WaitScreen control for ASP.NET
I was looking for something like that recently. I have on a project a page with tabs, datalist with a lot of rendered images, and of course some loading times issues.
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Console² for Firefox
Console² replaces the JavaScript Console with what could be the next generation Error Console.
As of Firefox 1.5, the JavaScript Console is used not only for JavaScript errors, but for CSS errors as well. This extension takes this into account by providing a simple possibility to display errors by type.
Console² let's you display errors filtered by type (Errors, Warnings, Messages), language (JavaScript, CSS, XML) and context (Chrome, Content). Furthermore it provides a simple search box (as seen in the History and Bookmarks sidebars), hiding of duplicates, sidebar optimizations, a customizable toolbar and some more accessibility improvements. -
Yahoo! User Interface Library
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer's interface to important elements of the browser infrastructure (such as events, in-page HTTP requests and the DOM). The Yahoo UI Library Controls produce visual, interactive user interface elements on the page with just a few lines of code and an included CSS file. All the components in the Yahoo! User Interface Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.
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Sorting tables client side version
Standardista Table Sorting is a JavaScript module that lets you sort an HTML data table by any column. The module has the following advantages:
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AutoAssist 0.5.1
AutoAssist is an auto completion web widget that written in pure JavaScript.
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What HTML really means
Finally I got the answer (BTW I want one of those Tshirts) :-)
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Useful Windows Software
Yep another list of tools for Windows, some known some less.
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Subtext 1.0 Nautilus Edition Released
This is really great news! Now finally we got an alternative to .Text and compatible with it. Plus new features which are missing in .Net.
I will surely use Subtext for the community blogs I am managing on Developers.ie
I am quite excited by this project, probbaly more than by Community Server 2.0.
Don't get me wrong, CS 2.0 is a great stuff, but if you need just a blog and not all the software armada like the photos gallery or the forums, Subtext is a much better solution. -
Ajax programming community
Ajaxline is new Ajax community. I even found there a link to an online Ajax Chess.
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XML Tools on the Microsoft XML Tools Team Website - Free .NET XML Tools
XSD Object Code Generator
The utility builds C# and VB.NET data structures from an XSD schema that can serialize and de-serialize to XML and other formats. This tool is available here. -
Origami week 2
Like a good Dallas series (just joking) the Origami project has just now entered in week 2.
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Origami project, is it really ready for tomorrow?
Well if you have a bit of interests for the Origami project, you have probably subscribed to the RSS feed.
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A chance to talk to one of the members of the SQL team
This is really short notice but we are please in Dublin to welcome Dr Michael Rys from Microsoft Redmond to talk about SQL Server 2005.