Head first into javascript (and jQuery)

Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Head first into javascript (and jQuery):

"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!)."

Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

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."

django-firebird

Via Firebird News: Blog post, Django meets Firebird, talks about the django-firebird project.

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.

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."

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 safe^TM, 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.

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."

I think this is an excellent article by Bruce Schneier. It takes courage to be free. Too many would rather just be safe^TM.

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)"

Solstice

Solstice

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..."

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.

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."

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."

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."

FastSpring

FastSpring

"FastSpring provides an all-in-one e-commerce payment processing, merchandising, and fulfillment solution."

AllChars

AllChars

"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

dynaTrace AJAX Edition

Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues - dynaTrace AJAX Edition

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."

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):

mkisofs -pad -b bootdisk.img -R -o bootdisk.iso bootdisk.img

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

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."

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

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).

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."

Radiolab

WNYC - Radiolab

Via Seth.

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

"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

IceRocket

IceRocket real-time search

10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines

Smashing Magazine: 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines

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"

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."

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."

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."

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."

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.

Lifehacker - Mastering Wget

Geek to Live: Mastering Wget

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

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(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

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Miguel de Icaza

Introduction to The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language

Mono on the Wii

UNITY

Moonlight

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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...

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

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."

Ubuntu Release Cycle

The Ubuntu Release Cycle