Determine CSS Property Support Using Javascript Feature Testing

NealGrosskopf.com l Determine CSS Property Support Using Javascript Feature Testing

Passionate Vim Plugin Set

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

Blueprint CSS Framework

Blueprint: A CSS Framework

"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing."

Vim Kata Number One

Vim Kata Number One

Arduino

Arduino

"Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments."

RVM on Ubuntu Lucid

BridgeUtopia (Katherine G. Pe): Install RVM, Passenger, Nginx and Rails 3 on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Ubuntu Forums: [SOLVED] Ruby and RVM (Ruby version manager) on Ubuntu from source

Ruby Inside: Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions At Once

intertwingly.net (Sam Ruby): Sam Ruby: RVM for Ubuntu Tip

Stack Overflow: Issue installing RVM for RoR in Ubuntu

Zen Cart

Zen Cart ecommerce solution

"Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software."

Braintree Payment Solutions

Braintree Payment Solutions

"We help online businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing and credit card storage."

Syntastic Plugin for Vim

vim online: Syntastic - Automatic syntax checking

"Syntastic is a syntax checking plugin that runs buffers through external syntax checkers as they are saved and opened. If syntax errors are detected, the user is notified and is happy because they didn't have to compile their code or execute their script to find them."

Create a Local Ubuntu Repository using Apt-Mirror and Apt-Cacher

Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store - Create a Local Ubuntu Repository using Apt-Mirror and Apt-Cacher

"Apt-Cacher differs from apt-mirror in that it does not mirror the entire repository contents, but simply caches (stores) any packages requested by clients within the network. In other words, it works as a middle man between the public repository and the LAN clients, sharing any common downloads internally."

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"

Hanselminutes - Developers and Designers

Hanselminutes #222

"Scott sits down with designer Jin Yang to talk about the fundamental differences between developers and designers. Are we a totally different breed? How should designers and developers work together? Should designers code their own sites?"

This was a good discussion. Enjoyed Jin Yang's practical view of being a designer.

Screem HTML/XML Editor

Screem HTML/XML Editor

"In addition to excelling as an HTML editor, SCREEM also lends itself to being a versatile XML editing package, perfect for use as a general purpose structured data editing environment."

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."

Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco

Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco

"You look forward to the first hit of the game. I tell them to call a play where somebody misses a block. If you don't get hit, you're always waiting for it to happen. It's better to get it out of the way early."

I like this quote from Joe Montana. It seems applicable to more than just football.

(via a Twitter post from @davewiner)

Limelight

Limelight

"Limelight is a rich client GUI framework unlike any other... Unlike many other frameworks, Limelight applications are built using only one language: Ruby."

Pairwise Testing

Pairwise Testing

"Pairwise (a.k.a. all-pairs) testing is an effective test case generation technique that is based on the observation that most faults are caused by interactions of at most two factors. Pairwise-generated test suites cover all combinations of two therefore are much smaller than exhaustive ones yet still very effective in finding defects"

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."

Vim for TextMate Fans

Alex Young: Vim for TextMate Fans:

"Then I found TextMate for Mac OS. The immediacy of TextMate made it easy to get started with, and it has many excellent features. The problem is, I’m not always using a Mac. But you know who’ll follow me around to every platform I use? Good old vim! So I started thinking, how could I make vim feel more like TextMate?"

Charles Petzold - New Book on Windows Phone 7 Series

Charles Petzold is working on a new book about Windows Phone Seven Series Seven Phone Seven Series Phone.

Free ebook to be published later this year. Preview excerpts available now.

Windows Phone

Microsoft: Windows Phone - Developer Home

CalSky

CalSky.com

CalSky was founded in 1991 by Arnold Barmettler to offer amateur astronomers a new way to plan their observing sessions and to consult scientist and industry regarding questions related to astronomy and celestial mechanics.

Stuff

Just stuff I'm researching. No need to follow these links (unless you really want to).

Parsing Non-Standard Text File Formats with the Script Component

O'Reilly - Safari Books Online: Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition

SQLIS.com

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

Nifty Generators

GitHub - ryanb's nifty-generators

"A collection of useful Rails generator scripts for scaffolding, layout files, authentication, and more."

Introducing BDD

DanNorth.net - Introducing BDD

"I found the shift from thinking in tests to thinking in behaviour so profound that I started to refer to TDD as BDD, or behaviour- driven development."

Librelist

Librelist.com

"Librelist is a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects... You can make a mailing list by simply sending an email... You also subscribe to a list by simply sending your first message..."

Pro Git

Pro Git - Pro Git Book

"This is the website for the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and published by Apress. Here you can find the full content of the book, a blog with tips and updates about Git and the book and open source projects related to Git or referenced in the book."

NDFD Database Contents

NDFD Database Contents

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

[Update 2010-09-08]

The above link seems to no longer work. The release schedule is listed here:
Releases - Ubuntu Wiki

SongBeamer - Components for Delphi 2009

Components for Delphi 2009 / Tiburon - songbeamer.de

"Here is a collection of components for Delphi 2009"

CohPy Link Dump

Attended the first meeting of the Central Ohio Python Users Group yesterday evening.

Here's a link dump from my meeting notes:

cohpy.org (Site was not up yet but here's the link anyhoo.)

Meeting was at TechColumbus.

Group was organized by Eric Floehr.

Eric's web sites: ForecastAdvisor, ForecastWatch.

Group page at meetup.com.

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jonEbird - Jon Miller presented...

Welcome to Apache Hadoop!

Google: MapReduce

Doug Cutting - Wikipedia

Doug Cutting's Blog - Free Search

HDFS Architecture

Apache - HBase

Apache - Hive

Apache - Pig

Apache - ZooKeeper

Python - Built-in Functions - Map, Reduce.

Sort Benchmark Home Page

Jim Gray, Microsoft Research Home Page

YouTube - Cluster Computing and MapReduce Lecture 1

Yahoo! - Hadoop Tutorial

Slicehost - VPS Hosting

Plone CMS

Plone Consulting — Six Feet Up, Inc.

PyOhio

26.1. pydoc — Documentation generator and online help system — Python v2.6.2 documentation

py2exe

Pyinstaller

blip.tv - PyOhio videos.

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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Scalable Vector Graphics - Wikipedia

Firefox Add-ons Collections

Just ran across the collections of Firefox Add-ons on the Mozilla site.

Here are a couple I want to check out (on a Virtual Machine first):

Web Developer's Toolbox - Already use a few of these add-ons.

Reference Desk - Looking for ways to speed up and organize research on the web.

FLOSS Weekly

The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte provides bad dental advice: FLOSS Weekly

...well, I suppose weekly is better than never. Oh, it's NOT about dentistry.

Lending money to family

Ask the expert: Lending money to family members - Sep. 15, 2009

"If an unreliable family member is asking you for a loan, proceed with caution."

I'd say if ANY family member is asking you for a loan, proceed with caution.

Hanselminutes 177 - Richard Campbell

Hanselminutes 177 - Hanselminutiae-seven with Richard Campbell

Enjoyed this one enough to make some links for future reference. Actually, I enjoy most of the Hanselminutes podcasts. I just happened to have time today to blog some links for this one.

Microsoft ResponsePoint

Syspine

3:05 "I'm going to Google that with Bing" - Scott

5:09 Scott's son picks up the phone and promotes the use of a home PBX for those making podcasts.

Kindle DX

Apple Newton

NDC 2009 - Norwegian Developers Conference

devLink

TechEd

Book: The Paradox of Choice

Subway

I agree with eating at a familiar chain restaurant when on the road. It's not just the familiarity, I've gotten sick after trying local specialties several times while traveling. Then again, don't miss out entirely, take care of business first then sample the local fare.

Channel 9 - Death of the Professional Conference Speaker

"Love runs down."

I think the people doing the smaller conferences will move on. It's only natural that their interests will change over time and not necessarily in unison with the communities they are in now. As that happens new conferences and communities will form around new "movers and shakers" and people will continue to learn and share (and show off their chops).

Channel 9 - Chris Sells on Managing People and Your Time

42:00 "I used to measure my productivity in interruptions per hour." - Richard

I have even more respect for Richard after hearing his story of posting his interruptions-per-hour metric outside his office for the boss and others to see. Excellent.

I'd recommend trying the On Air sign before testing the shotgun theory.

Snippets Anywhere with AutoHotkey

Rob Henrys' Blog : Snippets Anywhere with AutoHotkey:

"Most snippet solutions work only within one specific application; however it’s sometimes desirable to have a solution that can work across multiple applications, this is where AutoHotkey can help. I’m going to describe an AutoHotkey script that will allow you to seamlessly add and use text snippets in any application. The script is made up of three parts: defining a snippet from the script, adding a snippet to the script, and reloading the script after a snippet is added."

AutoHotkey

xUnit.net

xUnit.net - Unit Testing for .NET

xUnit.net Contrib

Brad Wilson

James Newkirk

MRT - Malicious Software Removal Tool

Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

Start / Run: MRT

Script#

Script#:

"Script# brings productivity to Ajax and JavaScript development. Script# is a free tool that enables developers to author C# source code and subsequently compile it into regular script that works across all modern browsers..."

WebDev Notes

XFN

Microformats

CSS Optimiser

HTML forms: fieldset, legend, label.

Box model: width, height refer to content area.

IE5/6 box model different. Don't add padding to elements with defined width.

Edit Icons and Cursors in Paint.NET

Evan's Freeware Site has a plugin for Paint.NET that enables editing Windows icon and cursor files.

Squid

Squid

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.

Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.

Squid User's Guide

SquidGuard

DansGuardian

Hanselminutes 176

Hanselminutes 176

Udi Dahan is an Enterprise Development Expert and also the author of NServiceBus. Udi educates Scott on how a service bus works, and how it fits into a world of brokers, workflows and services.

Udi Dahan

NServiceBus

MyTelescope.com

MyTelescope.com - Getting Started:

"Using our observatories to take your own astronomy images is easy! Once you have registered and purchased credits, simply book a telescope, connect to the observatory and start controlling: point the telescope at objects such as galaxies, nebula, binary stars and take pictures."

Groovy and Grails

Groovy and Grails - Java | SpringSource:

"The combination of Groovy and Grails offers productivity benefits rivaling Ruby on Rails, but on the proven, scalable, and seamlessly integrated Java platform."

We need a history lesson about Nazis

We need a history lesson about Nazis - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com:

"It's important to remember that the Nazis are passing out of living memory; U.S. soldiers of that era are said to be dying at the rate of 1,200 a day. Which makes it too easy, I think, for a nation of notorious historical illiteracy to remake the Nazis as some kind of all-purpose bogeymen for slandering political enemies and scoring cheap rhetorical points."

Hanselwood

Hanselminutes 175 - Scott Hanselman interviews Jeff Atwood.

ASP.NET MVC

CruiseControl (did a quick search but didn't find if it is CruiseControl or CC.NET that Jeff uses).

LINQ to SQL (database as model)

reCAPTCHA

DotNetOpenAuth - .NET OpenID

Post/Redirect/Get model (2)

"Bad neighborhood in the code."

YSlow (see also Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site)

Minify: YUI Compressor (see also JSMin)

Scott likes the idea if a Content Delivery Network, Jeff not so much.

Gravatar caching: 1, 2, 3

What was Stack Overflow Built With

DocX

DocX - Home:

"DocX is a .NET library which allows developers to manipulate Word 2007 files, in an easy and intuitive manor. It does not use COM libraries nor does it require Office to be installed in order to function."

Thanks to Jon Kruger for the link.

HootSuite

HootSuite:

"HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success."

Marvell SheevaPlug

I want. I want.

Marvell: Plug Computing

PlugComputer Community

Linux for Devices - News: $100 Linux wall-wart launches

Sansa m250 with Ubuntu 9.04

Ubuntu 9.04 did not let me see the files on my Sansa m250 mp3 player. It detected it as a media player but I could not see its file system. I got it to work based on info in item #7 in this forum post by editing this file:

/usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/20-libgphoto2.fdi

I used gksudo nautilus to open a root file manager session. Then I made a backup copy of the above file in a directory under my home directory. Next I opened the file in gedit, commented out the section pertaining to Sansa devices, and saved the file.

Instead of restarting hal I just restarted the machine.

Now when I connect the Sansa player I can see and copy files as I please.

Podcasts

Generally computer geeky:

IT Conversations - Stack Overflow be here.

Software Engineering Radio - An extra shot of geek.

Dvorakish:

Cranky Geeks - Yeah, I'm cranky too.

No Agenda - Crackpot and Buzzkill IN THE MORNING - Cracks me up.

Microsofty:

.NET Rocks! - Carl rocks too. He's a REAL musician.

Hanselminutes - Scott IS THE Hanselman!

RunAs Radio - IT is geeky2.

Deep Fried Bytes - Microsouth.

Ubuntu LAMP

Installing Apache MySQL PHP on Ubuntu.

PHPSecInfo

PHP Security Consortium: PHPSecInfo:

"PhpSecInfo provides an equivalent to the phpinfo() function that reports security information about the PHP environment, and offers suggestions for improvement."

CakePHP

CakePHP: the rapid development php framework:

"CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications."

Ubuntu 8.10 Freezes After Login Screen

Ubuntu 8.10 Freezes After Login Screen - Benaiah’s Computer Experiences

This fixed problem with Ubuntu 9.04 on my ancient Dell Optiplex GX110 where, on reboot, after changing the screen resolution, GNOME would freeze with a faux pointillism version of the desktop.