Passionate Vim Plugin Set

Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Current Vim Plugin Set at Develop With Passion.

Beautiful Markup

Envy Labs - Beautiful Markup

"One of the best talks at Railsconf was given by John Athayde on Curing Div-itis with Semantic Html, CSS, and Presenters"

How to Lose Time and Money

How to Lose Time and Money

"The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work."

jVi

JJinuxLand: Vim: jVi

"jVi is a plugin for NetBeans that provides Vim-like key bindings. The good news is that it's close enough to be comfortable instead of frustrating."

SQLIS.com

SQLIS - SQL Server Integration Services - SSIS: Community site for Integration Services run by Microsoft SQL Server MVPs Darren Green and Allan Mitchell.

Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

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

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

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."

Fire And Motion - Joel on Software

Yes, this is an ancient article written way back in 2002. Still applies today and I might want to read it again, hence this post.

Fire And Motion - Joel on Software:

"Maybe this is the key to productivity: just getting started. Maybe when pair programming works it works because when you schedule a pair programming session with your buddy, you force each other to get started."

Hanselminutes 158 - Joel Spolsky

Hanselminutes: "Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky"

Joel on How Microsoft Lost the API War

Joel on Unicode

spolsky on Twitter

Raymond Chen - The Old New Thing

Michael Kaplan - Sorting it all Out

Long Zheng - I Started Something

Jeff Atwood - Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark?

Video: Channel 9 - Hanselminutes Tour of Fog Creek Software

Stoicism 101

Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs

Windows PowerShell Blog

The Windows PowerShell Blog also has a downloads page that links to downloads for the different versions of PowerShell.

Windows Vista Secret #10: Open an Elevated Command Prompt in Six Keystrokes

Tim Sneath : Windows Vista Secret #10: Open an Elevated Command Prompt in Six Keystrokes

Amanda Ripley - Attitude: More Important than Exercise

Amanda Ripley - Attitude: More Important than Exercise:

This all reminds me of a fantastic quote by the theologian Charles Swindoll...

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home."

CONDG Meeting - April 2008

At this month's Central Ohio .NET Developers Group meeting Scott Walker and Bryan Demuth, who work at TDCI, gave a presentation on debugging production applications. The presentation had a few bugs, some intentional (it was a debugging demo) and some not. In spite of the unintentional bugs I thought Scott did an excellent job of introducing some debugging techniques that are more hard-core than stepping through code in Visual Studio. Bryan was good at the Man in Black thing and from the entry on his blog I take it some in the audience didn't know who Johnny Cash was. What's that got to do with debugging? Nothing really.

Scott's blog has a link to download the slides from the presentation (and the slides include relevant links). Here are a few links related to the debugging tools discussed at the meeting:

Troubleshooting ASP.NET using WinDbg and the SOS extension

How to use ADPlus to troubleshoot hangs and crashes

ADPlus

A blog by Tess that has some detailed debugging info.

Also mentioned at the meeting:

COSPUG: Central Ohio SharePoint Users Group.

COALMG: Central Ohio Application Lifecycle Management Group.

CONDG Meeting - March 2008

Here are a few links related to the March 2008 Central Ohio .NET Developers Group meeting:

The Central Ohio SharePoint User Group was mentioned.

James Bender gave a presentation on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

James recommended blogs by Michele Leroux Bustamante (That Indigo Girl), Shy Cohen, and Nicholas Allen.

COLUG Meeting - March 2008

I attended the The Central Ohio Linux User Group meeting yesterday. Rick German from Stoneware gave a presentation on their WebOS. In my over-simplified view, WebOS is a system that creates a virtual desktop within a web browser. The system is built around a set of Java applications running on servers that interface with a number of hosted applications including web services and Windows Terminal Server sessions. This provides a unified point of entry to multiple back-end services with single sign-on, and provides centralized control of who can run which applications and where. This looks like some pretty cool technology especially useful for organizations with a lot of users needing access to a limited core set of applications to do their jobs. Still there is something about the idea of the desktop within the browser within a host OS that makes me feel like this is only evolutionary. At some point that outer browser and OS should disappear like the legs on a snake.

Speaking of snakes, Python to be precise, Catherine Devlin announced PyOhio, a "daylong regional miniconference being planned for the summer of 2008 in Columbus, OH."

Linux Home Automation

Linux Home Automation - Neil Cherry's blog. Neil is the author of Linux Smart Homes For Dummies.

30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows

The Simple Dollar - 30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows