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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.