"Once the CSS was done, I was informed that I’d now need to take the tabular reporting table I just created and make it sort on any of the columns, get the data via AJAX calls to a flat file that would store the JSON for the dummy data, create nice drop-down date pickers so date ranges in the report could be chosen by the end user, page the data using a flickr-style pager so only 20 lines would show up on a page, and alternate the row colors in the table (and make sure that doesn’t break when you sort!)."
Friday, January 22, 2010
Head first into javascript (and jQuery)
Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Head first into javascript (and jQuery):
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Microsoft IIS Web Deployment Tool
Web Deployment Tool : The Official Microsoft IIS Site
"The Web Deployment Tool simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites."
Monday, January 11, 2010
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Dissecting Time Machine & Replacing It With rsync
Backup Central - Dissecting Time Machine & Replacing It With rsync
"With rsync (which is built into both MacOS, Linux, & FreeBSD, and can be installed on Windows) and a little shell scripting, you can mimic everything but the GUI and you don't need no stinking sparse files. I even wrote a little script that I'll share with you at the end of this post."Must try this when I get some more storage.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
RSSOwl
Overview | RSSOwl - Powerful RSS / RDF / Atom News Feed Reader
"Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or 'aggregators.' RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It's easy to configure and the best of all: It's platform-independent."
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Amanda Ripley : Homeland Security for Grown-Ups
Amanda Ripley : Blog : Homeland Security for Grown-Ups:
"Terrorism is a psychological war as much as a physical war. To win such a war, it is essential not to overreact. That is the crux of the matter. If you overreact, you become a force multiplier for the terrorists."And if you multiply that force, and you are in the business of making the public safeTM, you profit from it and gain power.
Is aviation security mostly for show?
Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com:
"There is a difference between indomitability and arrogant 'bring 'em on' rhetoric. There's a difference between accepting the inherent risk that comes with a free and open society, and hyping the threats.I think this is an excellent article by Bruce Schneier. It takes courage to be free. Too many would rather just be safeTM.
We should treat terrorists like common criminals and give them all the benefits of true and open justice -- not merely because it demonstrates our indomitability, but because it makes us all safer."
gdocbackup
Project Hosting on Google Code - gdocbackup
"GDocBackup exports all documents from Google Documents to local hard-disk. Runs on NET 2.0 / Mono (Win, Linux and Mac)"
Labels:
.net,
backup,
Google,
open source,
utility
Monday, December 21, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
RCA Digital Voice Recorder in Linux
Using an RCA Digital Voice Recorder in Linux
"Despite the .VOC extension, they are not Creative Labs Sound Files. RCA-VOC is an undocumented proprietary format starting with the signature 'VCP162_VOC_File', not 'Creative Voice File'.
On March 28, 2008, I finally solved this format..."
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Code as Design
Developer Dot Star: Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves by Jack W. Reeves
"The following essays by Jack W. Reeves offer three perspectives on a single theme, namely that programming is fundamentally a design activity and that the only final and true representation of 'the design' is the source code itself"
Fluent in 3 months
Fluent in 3 months
My posts will be aimed at learners of any language, but I will be using those that I know as an example, including the one I happen to be currently learning. I will also be talking about specific languages.Now that I can see how easy it is to learn languages, I am constantly travelling to new countries and staying there (for around 3 months usually) and immersing myself in the language, although it can just as easily be done in the comfort of your own home with the right tools and attitude.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Access and PowerShell
Creating an Access database - Richard Siddaway's Blog
"In this series of articles I’ll show how to work with data contained in Access databases using PowerShell."
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Digital Pickle
Digital Pickle - Digital Imaging Services
"We scan and digitize photos, slides, and negatives of any format using high-end commercial scanners that produce unmatched image quality."
LyX
LyX - The Document Processor
"LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface."
Friday, December 11, 2009
extpascal
extpascal - Project Hosting on Google Code
"ExtPascal is an Object Pascal (Delphi, FreePascal/Lazarus) wrapper/binding for Ext JS, a complete GUI Ajax framework, made in JavaScript, for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development."
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
FastSpring
FastSpring
"FastSpring provides an all-in-one e-commerce payment processing, merchandising, and fulfillment solution."
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
AllChars
AllChars
See also: Compose Key
Via: Derek Sivers
"AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents... and special characters... in most Windows programs."
See also: Compose Key
Via: Derek Sivers
Labels:
open source,
text,
utility,
windows
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Jack PC
Jack PC Thin Client - Chip PC Technologies:
"The Jack PC's patented technology enables converting a standard LAN jack into a fully managed desktop PC, offering VDI support and connectivity to any type of popular Terminal, Citrix or Legacy server."
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Bootable Floppy ISO
I had a bootable floppy disk saved as an IMG file that I wanted to make into a bootable ISO image (don't ask why). I did so on Ubuntu using the following command (it'll probably wrap here but it's a single line):
bootdisk.img is the source IMG file.
bootdisk.iso is the resulting ISO file.
Source: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/floppy_image_on_cd.htm
mkisofs -pad -b bootdisk.img -R -o bootdisk.iso bootdisk.imgbootdisk.img is the source IMG file.
bootdisk.iso is the resulting ISO file.
Source: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/floppy_image_on_cd.htm
Spoon
Deliver your apps instantly on the web - Spoon App Streaming:
"Spoon lets you create web-hosted versions of your existing Windows apps that run instantly from your web site, with no install."
Friday, October 30, 2009
nano nowrap
To make the nowrap (-w) option default when starting nano, edit (or create) .nanorc in your home directory with the line:
set nowrap
More info at The GNU nano editor FAQ
set nowrap
More info at The GNU nano editor FAQ
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Firefox - Bookmarks - Parent Folder
I've been wishing for this functionality in Firefox, but not enough to go looking for it - until today. Found a couple add-ons that help when organizing the bookmarks library:
Go Parent Folder - Adds a "Go Parent Folder" option to the context menu in the bookmarks library. Opens the parent folder of the current bookmark in the folder tree (left pane).
Show Parent Folder - Makes a "Parent Folder" column available in the bookmarks library search results (right pane).
Go Parent Folder - Adds a "Go Parent Folder" option to the context menu in the bookmarks library. Opens the parent folder of the current bookmark in the folder tree (left pane).
Show Parent Folder - Makes a "Parent Folder" column available in the bookmarks library search results (right pane).
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
rsnapshot
rsnapshot
"rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals."
AutoMapper
AutoMapper
"AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values."
log4net
Apache log4net
"log4net is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets. log4net is a port of the excellent log4j framework to the .NET runtime."
Monday, October 26, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
MAP: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
"The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations and virtualization without the use of any software agents."
BlogScope
BlogScope: analyze the blogosphere
Source for this post and the previous on IceRocket: The REAL real time search
"BlogScope is an analysis and visualization tool for blogosphere which is being developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto."
Source for this post and the previous on IceRocket: The REAL real time search
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
Smashing Magazine: 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
DelphiFeeds
DelphiFeeds.com
"This site collects many different feeds from blogs, newsgroups and other Delphi sites. We publish short excerpts from these postings or articles on the DelphiFeeds.com front page"
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Simple Test for PHP
Simple Test for PHP
"Amongst software testing tools, a unit tester is the one closest to the developer. In the context of agile development the test code sits right next to the source code as both are written simultaneously. In this context SimpleTest aims to be a complete PHP developer test solution and is called 'Simple' because it should be easy to use and extend. It wasn't a good choice of name really. It includes all of the typical functions you would expect from JUnit and the PHPUnit ports, and includes mock objects."
Monday, October 12, 2009
Disk2vhd
Windows Sysinternals: Disk2vhd
"Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online."
Labels:
freeware,
utility,
virtualization,
windows
Friday, October 09, 2009
simplejson
Project Hosting on Google Code: simplejson
"simplejson is compatible with Python 2.4 and later with no external dependencies. It covers the full JSON specification for both encoding and decoding, with unicode support."
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
gdatacopier
gdatacopier on Google Code
"GDataCopier provides two command line utilities (the syntax of which largely resembles scp) that allow users to
* list documents on the Google document system
* export and import documents on the Google document system
Our target audience are system administrators (on Unix like platforms) who are looking to automate off site backups of their Google documents."
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Herding Code
Herding Code
I haven't listened to this podcast yet but will soon. No link dump will be needed for this one - they have a nice big list of links from the show. That I like.
I haven't listened to this podcast yet but will soon. No link dump will be needed for this one - they have a nice big list of links from the show. That I like.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Hanselminutes 181 - Mono
Link dump from Hanselminutes 181 with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware:
Hanselminutes - Show 181
Mono
Intel Software Network Blogs: Joseph Hill from Novell talking about Mono
Interview with Joseph Hill – Mono
Scott Bellware
Monospace - The Open Source and Cross-Platform Conference for Mono and .NET
Apple: iPhone Dev Center
MonoTouch
Open Source Initiative: Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Wikipedia: Shared source - Ms-PL
Mono.Addins
MonoDevelop
Wikipedia: MonoDevelop
Mono Tools for Visual Studio (MonoVS)
MoMA - Mono
---
(16:20) Bellware: "I'm hosting a conference not because I'm an expert but because I want to have some time with some experts."
I like Scott Bellware's ideas on conferences that are much more about learning and teaching than pushing a vendor's products. They seem to be popular.
devLink
CodeMash
---
Miguel de Icaza
Introduction to The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language
Mono on the Wii
UNITY
Moonlight
---
Some "Getting started with iPhone development" links:
ZD-Net: Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection
Quite Useful: Getting Started With iPhone Development
mobiForge: Getting Started with iPhone DevelopmentmobiForge
iPhone Development: A Primer for Non-Mac Development Shops
Now, if I just had toy money for a Mac and an iPhone...
Hanselminutes - Show 181
Mono
Intel Software Network Blogs: Joseph Hill from Novell talking about Mono
Interview with Joseph Hill – Mono
Scott Bellware
Monospace - The Open Source and Cross-Platform Conference for Mono and .NET
Apple: iPhone Dev Center
MonoTouch
Open Source Initiative: Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Wikipedia: Shared source - Ms-PL
Mono.Addins
MonoDevelop
Wikipedia: MonoDevelop
Mono Tools for Visual Studio (MonoVS)
MoMA - Mono
---
(16:20) Bellware: "I'm hosting a conference not because I'm an expert but because I want to have some time with some experts."
I like Scott Bellware's ideas on conferences that are much more about learning and teaching than pushing a vendor's products. They seem to be popular.
devLink
CodeMash
---
Miguel de Icaza
Introduction to The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language
Mono on the Wii
UNITY
Moonlight
---
Some "Getting started with iPhone development" links:
ZD-Net: Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection
Quite Useful: Getting Started With iPhone Development
mobiForge: Getting Started with iPhone DevelopmentmobiForge
iPhone Development: A Primer for Non-Mac Development Shops
Now, if I just had toy money for a Mac and an iPhone...
Labels:
.net,
LinkDump,
mobile,
open source,
podcast
RunAs Radio 128
Link dump from RunAs Radio show 128 with Buck Woody:
RunAs Radio - Show 128 - Buck Woody
Carpe Datum - Buck Woody's Blog
CodePlex: SQL Server Central Management System
Bill Ramos on SQL Server
Microsoft Office Online: OneNote
Around 20:40 Buck mentions Compaq "T1100" tablet PC. Wonder if that's the TC1100?
YouTube - HP Compaq TC1100 Tablet PC Introduction
sqlcmd Utility
Enterprise Policy Management Framework - Home
Lara Rubbelke
LE1700 Tablet PC - Powerful and Full-featured Tablet Computer - Richard's tablet (er, slate) PC.
CustomGuide - Free Computer Training Quick References, Cheat Sheets
SSWUG.ORG - SQL Server Worldwide Users Group
RunAs Radio - Show 128 - Buck Woody
Carpe Datum - Buck Woody's Blog
CodePlex: SQL Server Central Management System
Bill Ramos on SQL Server
Microsoft Office Online: OneNote
Around 20:40 Buck mentions Compaq "T1100" tablet PC. Wonder if that's the TC1100?
YouTube - HP Compaq TC1100 Tablet PC Introduction
sqlcmd Utility
Enterprise Policy Management Framework - Home
Lara Rubbelke
LE1700 Tablet PC - Powerful and Full-featured Tablet Computer - Richard's tablet (er, slate) PC.
CustomGuide - Free Computer Training Quick References, Cheat Sheets
SSWUG.ORG - SQL Server Worldwide Users Group
Saturday, October 03, 2009
jwz - that "duct tape" silliness
jwz - that "duct tape" silliness:
"So I guess to the extent that he puts me up on a pedestal for merely being practical, that's a pretty sad indictment of the state of the industry."
Thursday, October 01, 2009
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