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Following is personal collection of mostly software-related articles and downloads that I have found useful and bookmarked for future reference:

Application Contacts
With the Windows Live Messenger Library version 3.0, when users link their Live Messenger accounts with the application, they can chat with one another in Web communities without becoming Live Messenger contacts. Applications enable this functionality with application contacts. By making user A an application contact of user B, an application can enable users A and B, who are not on each other's Live Messenger contact list, to see each other’s presence and send each other instant messages.
Posted Saturday, April 04, 2009 under chat, winlive
Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech - CNET News
Most companies buy servers from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, or Sun Microsystems. But Google, which has hundreds of thousands of servers and considers running them part of its core expertise, designs and builds its own. Ben Jai, who designed many of Google's servers, unveiled the composition of a Google server.
Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 under hardware
EQATEC Profiler — EQATEC
Free code profiling (including source code under BSD License) tool for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or above and .NET Compact Framework 2.0 or above.
Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 under .net, performance, profiling, tool, free, opensource
Credential Management with the .NET Framework 2.0
Introduces to the Windows Credential Management API that includes functions for user interface handling and lesser-known functions for managing a user's credential set. Also included is a .NET class library that dramatically simplifies the task of credential management, for languages such as C# and Visual Basic, and provides a more elegant and robust approach to credential management for C++ developers.
Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 under security, windows, .net
.NETZ - .NET EXEcutables Compressor & Packer - madebits.com
.NETZ is a free open source tool that compresses and packs Microsoft .NET Framework binaries in order to make them smaller and distributable as a single unit. It is intended to pack .NET desktop applications.
Posted Sunday, March 29, 2009 under compression, tool, .net, opensource, free
Deblector - Home
Reflector add-in for debugging any managed assembly including the core framework.
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 under debugging, .net
Fast Lightweight Expression Evaluator - Home
Flee is an expression parser and evaluator for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It allows computation of string expressions such as `sqrt(a^2 + b^2)` at run-time. It uses a custom compiler, strongly-typed expression language, and lightweight codegen to compile expressions directly to IL. Expression evaluation is designed to be extremely fast and efficient.
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 under free, opensource, library, scripting
What I Use for Silverlight Development
List of development tools, editors and libraries Shawn Wildermuth uses for Silverlight development.
Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 under silverlight, blog-entry, opinions
Underused features of Windows batch files - Stack Overflow
A nice collection of underused features of Windows batch files with examples.
Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 under windows, scripting
IronEditor - Home
IronEditor is a WinForms application which allows one to write and execute code against languages implemented ontop of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). It currently supports IronRuby and IronPython.
Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 under free, opensource, ironpython, ironruby, ide, dlr
40 Useful JavaScript Libraries
40 stand-alone JavaScript libraries that serve specific purposes for which some more popular Ajax libraries may be an overkill.
Posted Tuesday, March 03, 2009 under javascript, library
Microsoft neXpert Performance Analysis Plugin
neXpert is an add-on to Fiddler which automates the classic performance best practice checks and produces a HTML report on the issues found in a Fiddler capture. neXpert adds the ability to insert step markers in Fiddler sessions to associate network objects together (create transactions). Using these steps, neXpert looks for performance issues and generates a HTML report based on the findings. A TCP model provided by Microsoft Research as well as a rudimentary algorithm to mimic web browser is used to generate response time predictions (Still considered Beta).
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 under performance, plugin, free
Python 2.6 Quick Reference
A Python 2.6 cheat sheet.
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 under python, reference
c# code format
An online (and offline) formatter for C#, VB, HTML, XML, T-SQL or MSH (code name Monad) code for publishing on a web site or in a blog.
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 under pretty-printer, webtool, free, c#, xml, html, msh
web2py Enterprise Web Framework
Free and open source full-stack enterprise framework for agile development of secure database-driven web-based applications, written and programmable in Python.
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 under python, ironpython, free, opensource, framework, webdev
The secret driven-development/design acronyms
After BDD, DDD and TDD, there are 23 letters unaccounted for.
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 under fun, development
Fluent DateTime - Home
A set of Ruby-inspired C# extension methods for natural DateTime handling and operations in .NET.
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 under opensource, free, library, c#
Argotic Syndication Framework - Home
The Argotic Syndication Framework is a Microsoft .NET class library framework that enables developers to easily consume and/or generate syndicated content from within their own applications. The framework makes the reading and writing syndicated content in common formats such as RSS, Atom, OPML, APML, BlogML, and RSD very easy while still remaining extensible enough to support common/custom extensions to the syndication publishing formats.
Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 under library, syndication, free, opensource
CommonServiceLocator - Home
The Common Service Locator library contains a shared interface for service location which application and framework developers can reference. The library provides an abstraction over IoC containers and service locators. Using the library allows an application to indirectly access the capabilities without relying on hard references. The hope is that using this library, third-party applications and frameworks can begin to leverage IoC/Service Location without tying themselves down to a specific implementation.
Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 under ioc, library, opensource, free
TinyChat.com - Create a free chatroom
TinyChat is a free service that allows one to create a free chat room that is accessible by anyone with a browser. A chat room is simply created from the homepage then the link can be given to anyone to join the chat. After leaving the chat room, all the chat data is gone.
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 under webtool, collaboration, free
Consuming Extension Methods in IronPython Parts II & III
Micheal Foord summarizes blog entries from Saveen that demonstrate, using that different approaches, how to tell IronPython that one type is providing extension methods for another via Microsoft.Scripting.Runtime.ExtensionType.
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 under ironpython, blog-entry, howto
ironclad - Google Code
Ironclad aims, in the long term, to allow IronPython users to transparently import and use any compiled CPython extensions.
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2009 under ironpython, python, free, opensource
SyntaxBox - alsing - Google Code
SyntaxBox is a powerful syntax-highlight Windows Forms control for the Microsoft .NET Platform. It is LGPL-licensed and written in 100% managed C#. It supports syntax highlighting as well as code folding for just about any programming language.
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2009 under opensource, winforms, control, free
Custom Basic Authentication for IIS - Home
HTTP Module to allow HTTP Basic Authentication against non-Windows accounts in IIS. By default, it authenticates against the default Membership provider but can be configured to use another. Furthermore the module includes some plumbing to enable WCF services to use Basic authentication against non-Windows accounts.
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 under opensource, iis, asp.net, http, security, free
Non-Paged CLR Host - Home
This project is a custom CLR host that can provide significant performance improvements for applications that consume large amounts of memory. This is accomplished by locking all CLR-allocated pages into physical memory. If enough physical memory is available, running an application under this host can guarantee that paging will not occur even if other applications on the system are allocating and deallocating memory continuously.
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 under clr, performance, opensource, free
Garbage Collection Notifications in .NET 3.5 SP1
As of .NET 3.5 SP1, another set of APIs joins the existing interfaces. In .NET 3.5 SP1, it is possible to receive a notification when a garbage collector is approaching and act accordingly if application needs dictate it. These APIs are available only if concurrent GC is disabled, i.e. when using workstation non-concurrent GC or server GC.
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 under clr, performance
Online javascript beautifier
An on-line JavaScript pretty printer with code the latest version of the code available on github, and which can be downloaded the beautifier for local use as well.
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 under javascript, webtool, pretty-printer
Xinha – The Community-built Open Source Online HTML Editor
Xinha is a WYSIWYG HTML editor component that works in Mozilla based browsers as well as in MS Internet Explorer. Its configurabilty and extensibility make it easy to build just the right editor for multiple purposes, from a restricted mini-editor for one database field to a full-fledged website editor. Its liberal, BSD licence makes it an ideal candidate for integration into any kind of project.
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 under opensource, free, ria, control
WebServiceStudio - Home
This codeplex project is the revival of the old .NET Webservice Studio tool. The objective of the project is to add support for WCF, nullable types and REST style API to allow a complete composite type testing from one tool.
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 under free, opensource, webservices
JavaScript Hashtable
jshashtable is a stand-alone JavaScript implementation of a hash table. While JavaScript's built-in objects do provide this functionality, keys in jshashtable can be any object and not just strings.
Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 under javascript, library, free, opensource
Hash.js - Project Details
A simple and stand-alone implementation of a hashtable in JavaScript. It meets the following design goals: (1) have a length field and iterators over keys, values, and items, (2) gracefully accept keys that conflict with the names of built-in methods (e.g., "keys", "values", "toString"), (3) not mess with the prototypes of built-in objects, (4) preferably has a small namespace footprint and (5) must be standalone, without dependencies on a large JS library.
Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 under javascript
Microsoft teams and products on Twitter | Adam Kinney, Continuum Explorer
Adam Kinney presents a collection of a few officially known Microsoft teams and products on Twitter.
Posted Saturday, February 07, 2009 under twitter, blog-entry
30 Essential Controls
Every designer has a set of controls they rely on to communicate an effective UI. Unfortunately, no single RIA framework offers all. Theresa provides a checklist of which frameworks provide which control from a collection of 30 popular ones seen on may sites. The frameworks reviewed include: Flex, Laszlo, Silverlight and 12 Ajax frameworks and toolkits: ExtJS, Dojo, YUI, Google Web Toolkit, Prototype/script.aculo.us, JQuery, MooTools, MochaUI, SproutCore, LivePipeUI,IT Mill, Backbase.
Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 under webdesign, control, ria
JSON Viewer - Home
The JSON Viewer package is a set of 3 viewers available in the following flavors: a standalone viewer (JsonView.exe), a plugin for Fiddler 2 (FiddlerJsonViewer.dll) and a visualizer for Visual Studio 2005 (JsonVisualizer.dll).
Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 under plugin, free, opensource, json, tool
Simple JSON Viewer
An online solution to display JSON text in pretty-printed format. The solution allows JSON text to be entered directly to be grabbed from a URL.
Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 under webtool, json
jsonviewer - Google Code
A simple Adobe AIR application that can be used to visually inspect JSON data.
Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 under json, air-app, free, opensource
Kaxaml
Kaxaml is a light-weight XAML editor that gives a "split view" to see both the XAML and the rendered content (kind of like XamlPad but without the gigabyte of SDK). Kaxaml is a hobby and was created to be shared, so it's free.
Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 under free, xaml, tool
Everything Your Professor Failed to Tell You About Functional Programming | Linux Journal
One of the hardest things about learning Haskell is you can't understand Haskell without understanding monads, and you can't understand most of the monad examples without understanding Haskell. Hence, for better or worse, here's Maybe in Python and JavaScript.
Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2009 under fp, programming
LINQ-to-Datacenter (pdf)
Summary, “We strongly believe that LINQ is best way to expose a MapReduce style programming model over large clusters of commodity hardware for mainstream programmers.”
Posted Saturday, January 17, 2009 under linq
The Power to Fight Eviction
The power landlords have over tenants is overwhelming, unless restricted by law. The argument: if they want to shut down a service, essentially evicting users, they should be required to give notice and keep things running for a year. Societies, civilization and economies have an interest in protecting and preserving the intellectual work of individuals. Even family photos, business blogs, and the most idiotic of forums have value. Value to their creators, value as history, value even as part of the creative commons.
Posted Saturday, January 17, 2009 under opinions, webservices
SimpleDB Management Tools
SimpleDB Management Tools makes it easy to connect to SimpleDB instances from the Visual Studio Server Explorer. One can query data, add, edit and delete domains and attributes.
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 under vs2008, addins, aws
Sample Source Code for Silverlight 2 Runtime and SDK Controls
Source code and unit tests for the managed Silverlight 2 controls included in System.Windows.dll, System.Windows.Controls.dll, and System.Windows.Controls.Data.dll.
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 under silverlight
The DevCon command-line utility functions as an alternative to Device Manager
The DevCon utility is a command-line utility that acts as an alternative to Device Manager. DevCon can be used to enable, disable, restart, update, remove, and query individual devices or groups of devices. DevCon also provides information that is relevant to the driver developer and is not available in Device Manager.
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 under admin, tool, free
urmah - Google Code
URMAH (User & Role Manager And Handlers) is a user and role (ASP.NET Membership) management facility inspired by ELMAH. URMAH is a pluggable ASP.NET HTTP handler, which means that it can be added dynamically to any ASP.NET application that relies on ASP.NET membership, by simply dropping the assembly in the bin folder and adding one line to the Web.config. Once URMAH has been dropped into a web application, it enables searching users, viewing their details and adding/removing roles to users.
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 under asp.net, security, opensource, free
StringTemplate Template Engine
StringTemplate is a Java template engine (with ports for C# and Python) for generating source code, web pages, e-mails, or any other formatted text output. StringTemplate is particularly good at multi-targeted code generators, multiple site skins, and internationalization/localization. Its distinguishing characteristic is that it strictly enforces model-view separation unlike other engines.
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 under templating, opensource, free, library
Oxite - Home
A simple blog engine written using ASP.NET MVC, and designed with two main goals. One, to provide a sample of “core blog functionality” (trackbacks, RSS, comments, etc.) in a reusable fashion, and two, to provide a real-world sample written using ASP.NET MVC.
Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 under opensource, free, aspnet-mvc
StyleCop for ReSharper - Home
StyleCop for ReSharper is a ReSharper 4.1 plugin that uses Microsoft StyleCop to generate real-time highlighting of coding violations.
Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 under ide, free, opensource, addins, vs
TemplateMaschine - an open source template engine for C#
TemplateMaschine is a simple library that processes ASP.NET-like templates with embedded C# code and outputs the results to either a file or a string. Other software of this category include CodeSmith or the Java-based Velocity template engine.
Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 under codegen, library, .net, opensource, free
ASP.NET 1.1 database cache dependency (without triggers) - Jon Galloway
Jon Galloway discusses the pros and cons of an approach to implementing cache dependency on tables in a SQL Server database using CHECKSUM family of functions to detect changes.
Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 under caching, sqlserver, howto, asp.net, blog-entry
4 Features for C# 4.0
An interesting wish list of what should go into C# 4.0 or some future version. Things like implementing interfaces by delegation to fields, anonymous return type values, a safe null dereferencing operator and some duck-typing or structural subtyping support.
Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 under c#, opinions, blog-entry
"Push" LINQ revisited - next attempt at an explanation
Jon Skeet attempts to lay down his "push" approach to get streaming aggregates in LINQ queries.
Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 under linq
pyjamas
pyjamas is a stand-alone python to javascript compiler, an Ajax framework/library and a Widget set API.
Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 under python, webdev
Creating a Query for Notification
Lists requirements that SELECT statements need to follow for query notifications.
Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 under sqlserver
CodeProject: Minimum Database Permissions Required for SqlDependency ...
This article explains how to give a user the minimum rights required for SqlDependency to work.
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 under sqlserver, security, ado, howto
Bram.us - Office 2007 Mime Types (for IIS)
List of Microsoft Office 2007 file extension to MIME-type mappings.
Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 under msoffice
BCL Team Blog : What's New in the BCL in .NET 4.0 [Justin Van Patten]
Justin Van Patten provides an overview of what can be expected in .NET 4.0 (Code Contracts, Parallel Extensions, BigInteger, memory-mapped files, ResourceManager improvements, compression improvements and possibly more).
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 under .net, blog-entry
Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip - Matthew Podwysocki
Unlike .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0 release is not as targeted towards functional programming as it is more towards dynamic programming and COM interoperability. There are, however, a few items to note, including the Tuple type and the Zip operator function among other items.
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 under blog-entry, .net
Gearman
Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages.
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 under distributed-computing, admin, opensource, free
MogileFS
MogileFS is an open source, application-level, shared-nothing, auto-replicating distributed file system.
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 under opensource, distributed-computing
Html Agility Pack - Home
An agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT. It is a .NET code library that allows parsing "out of the web" HTML files. The parser is very tolerant with "real world" malformed HTML. The object model is very similar to what proposes System.Xml, but for HTML documents (or streams).
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 under html, opensource, library, free, parsers
pixelbreaker : PolarClock
Flash-based Windows/Mac screen saver with a nice and graphical visualization of current time and date.
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 under free, windows, fun, flash
Using cURL to automate HTTP jobs
cURL is a command-line tool for doing all sorts of URL manipulations and transfers, but this tutorial focuses on how to use it to script HTTP requests. It also demonstrates how to emulate browsers by providing cURL command-line equivalents of several HTML-sourced HTTP transactions.
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 under howto, tutorial, http, scripting
A simple step continues to shrink the download size of Silverlight 2 applications
Compression of XAP files is not as efficient as it could be so they tend to be a bit larger than necessary. Since XAP files are regular ZIP files, they can be re-compressed more aggressively to be 20% smaller.
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 under silverlight, hacks, blog-entry
John Resig - JavaScript Micro-Templating
John Resig experiments with using script tags with content-type text/html as data islands and a long discussion of JavaScript templating langauges ensues. Good reference on JavaScript templating languages and the issues that surround them.
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 under javascript, templating
jTemplates - template engine in JavaScript
jTemplates is a template engine for JavaScript. It is small (<10kB), 100% in JavaScript, works with Ajax and/or JSON, works with jQuery, permits JavaScript code in templates, cascading templates, parameters in templates and can automatically update content from server.
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 under library, javascript, templating
Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight Applications
This document describes some best practices for search engine optimization of Silverlight applications. These practices are designed to help developers make their Silverlight content discoverable on a search engine results page and to provide an acceptable experience for users who do not have Silverlight enabled.
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 under silverlight, howto, best-practices, unread
InfoQ: How The JVM Spec Came To Be
In this keynote from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, James Gosling discusses how his history with programming languages led to Java's creation, code as algebra, how users use a product in very unusual ways, Java as a compromise between C and scripting languages, ANDF and Virtual Machines, pointer integrity, the Java object model, gotos and multilevel breaks, primitives and optimization tricks.
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 under java, history, video
paras3 - pas3 - Google Code - Parallel S3 sync.
paras3 is a Python program that transfers whole directory trees to and from an Amazon AWS S3 bucket. It is inspired by the Ruby program s3sync.rb found at http://s3sync.net/.
Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 under aws
simpledb-dev - Google Code
SimpleDB/dev provides a local SimpleDB server for Linux, OS X and Windows (XP or later), so SimpleDB-based solutions can be developed off-line without even requiring to have a SimpleDB account in the first place. Windows users have to also install Python extensions for Windows.
Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 under opensource, library, python, aws, free
.NET Security Blog : When the Opposite of Transparent isn't Opaque
Transparent code is code which voluntarily gives up its ability to elevate the permissions of the call stack. Transparent code has the effect of running with either the set of permissions it was granted or the set of permissions its callers were granted, whichever is smaller. Because of that, fully trusted transparent code essentially runs in the same security context of its callers, since the caller’s permissions are necessarily less than or equal to FullTrust.
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 under .net, security, blog-entry
fyiReporting Software - Open Source .Net Reporting
The fyiReporting RDL Project is a reporting and charting system based on Report Definition Language (RDL). Tabular, free form, matrix, charts are fully supported. Report output may be displayed as HTML, PDF, XML,.NET Control, Web Archive, and to a printer. The fyiReporting Software RDL Project 3 is released under the terms of the Apache License Version 2. This license allows you to use of RDL Project 3 libraries and programs in either open source or commercial applications (as long as fyiReporting Software, LLC, is given credit).
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 under opensource, free, reporting
dans.blog: Debugging Subversion Repository Hooks in Windows
Dan G. Switzer, II, shareshis tips on how to debug hook scripts in a Subversion repository on Windows. He explains that Subversion executes all hook programs with an empty environment, that hooks don't execute from the hooks folder, and finally how to save a log file of a hook's execution output for diagnosis.
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 under scc, debugging, blog-entry, howto
WCF REST Starter Kit
The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of features, Visual Studio templates, samples and guidance that enable users to create REST style services using WCF.
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 under wcf, http, webservices
XAML Power Toys
XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Multi-AppDomain Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor. It also helps in shortening the XAML page layout time by providing Line of Business (LOB) form generation tools, Grid tools, DataGrid and ListView generation.
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 under xaml, free, addins, vs, wpf, silverlight
Creative Docs .NET - Get Creative!
Creative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas, plans, flow charts, and more.
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 under graphics, freeware, software, productivity
Devscribe - Home
A command-line tool and an interactive WPF application that generates documentation for a given set of assemblies that looks just like C# code. The generated documentation resides in loose XML files and viewed through a supplied ASP.NET Web site. The documentation is formatted for quick navigation and using friendly URLs.
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 under opensource, tool, generators, docgen, free
C# Future - Home
Samples and documents describing C# 4.0 language and IDE features.
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 under C#
Deep Dive: Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET | pdc2008 | Channel 9
A presentation by Jim Hugunin on the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), delivered at the Microsoft PDC 2008.
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 under dlr
The Future of C# | PDC2008 | Channel 9
A presentation by Anders Hejlsberg on the future of C# (version 4 and beyond), delivered at the Microsoft PDC 2008.
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 under c#
Silverlight Toolkit - Home
The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. Release usually include full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation.
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 under free, control, silverlight, opensource, library
89 Ways for You to Become the Coolest Programmer in the World
There are dozens of posts on becoming a better developer, but this is an attempt at a single post with all the advice as a short guide.
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 under programming
csexwb2 - The most complete .NET Webbrowser control wrapper
csEXWB is a C# .NET 2.0 control that creates, hosts and sinks the events of the original WebBrowser control (not .NET or any other wrapper). Advanced customization and total control over the WebBrowser control are achieved via implementation of a number of interfaces, along with the addition of many methods, properties, events and a COM library.
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 under free, opensource, library, control
Hey, who took my Chiron?
Chiron was a tool in the Silverlight SDK that shipped in Beta 2 and which was responsible (for among other things) at that time for packaging the XAP. Chiron is still available, but is now part of the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK available on Codeplex.
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 under silverlight
Digital Web Magazine - Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong
“When released, Internet Explorer 8 will support many new values for the CSS display property, including the table-related values: table, table-row, and table-cell—and it’s the last major browser to come on board with this support. This event will mark the end of complex CSS layout techniques, and will be the final nail in the coffin of using HTML tables for layout.”
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 under ie, css
13 Of the Best Linux Tutorials and OpenCourseWare on the Web
The web can be an excellent source for Linux tutorials and training, if you know where to look. This article is meant to serve as a guide for new and advanced users who are searching for free Linux tutorials.
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 under linux, opensource, tutorial, unix
Enable the (Hidden) Administrator Account on Windows Vista
Tip on how to enable and disable the Administrator account in Windows Vista using the command-line.
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 under admin, howto, winvista
cush - Google Code
Cloud User Shell (cush) multi-call executable brings cushy, RESTful cloud control to the command line.
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 under opensource, free, cloud-computing, http, python, tool
What is the WINSXS directory in Windows…and why is it so large?
In previous versions of Windows the atomic unit of servicing was the file. In Windows Vista and later, it is the component. A component is one or more binaries, a catalog file, and an XML file that describes everything about how the files should be installed. When a particular binary is updated, a new version of the whole component is released, and that new version is stored alongside the original one in the component store. The higher version of the component is projected onto the system.
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 under windows, admin
Testing Times Ahead: Extending NUnit
To get serious with unit testing under NUnit, one needs to understand how to extend the NUnit framework in different ways for one's own particular test requirements and how to tailor test behaviour. Test Expert Ben Hall, of the SQL Data Generator team, shows how it is done, with special reference to the art of testing SQL code.
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 under testing
Recipe 86676: Using the email module to recursively unpack a multipart MIME message (simpler method)
A Python example of using the email module to unpack and decode a MIME message.
Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 under python, mail, justcode
CodeProject: Simple CSS Parser
This article describes a simple CSS parser written in C# using Coco/R attributed grammar to generate the scanner and parser.
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 under css, parsers
window-sniffer - Google Code
A C# application project that uses the Win32 API to list windows and enable the use to manipulate them (set caption, move, show, hide, etc.).
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 under free, tool, opensource, windows
Verifying JavaScript with JSLint and Visual Studio
Jason Diamond shows how to setup JSLint (by Douglas Crockford) to help with cleaning up JavaScript sources of common pitfalls right from within the Visual Studio IDE and editor.
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 under javascript, vs, blog-entry
.NET Framework 3.5 Architecture
The .NET Framework version 3.5 builds upon versions 2.0 and 3.0 and their service packs. The .NET Framework version 3.5 Service Pack 1 updates version 3.5 assemblies and includes new service packs for versions 2.0 and 3.0. This topic briefly describes the relationship of the .NET Framework versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and their service packs.
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 under .net
Bindable LINQ - Home
Bindable LINQ is a set of extensions to LINQ that add data binding and change propagation capabilities to standard LINQ queries.
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 under linq, opensource, free, library
Sam Ruby: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
”Sending the new X-Content-Type-Options response header with the value nosniff will prevent Internet Explorer from MIME-sniffing a response away from the declared content-type.” [Eric Lawrence]
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 under ie, hacks, blog-entry
How SQL Server short-circuits WHERE condition evaluation
Mladen Prajdić demonstrates why SQL Server does not do short-circuiting like it is done in other programming languages and that it cannot be enforced except via CASE.
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 under sql, sqlserver, blog-entry
rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's Windows desktop. Supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0. rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System. rdesktop is released under the GNU Public Licence (GPL).
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 under free, opensource, admin, windows, unix, tool
Why Python?
Eric Raymond, open source advocate and author of The Cathedral & The Bazaar, describes how he came to Python and why it is now his favorite language.
Posted Sunday, September 28, 2008 under opinions, python
WebChart Control for ASP.NET
Free WebControl for creating charts that render as images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, etc). Supported chart types are Line Charts, Smooth Line Charts, Column Charts, Area Charts, Scattered Charts, Stacked Column Charts, Pie Charts and Stacked Area Charts. It works for ASP.NET 1.1 or later and features Visual Studio design-time support as well.
Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 under asp.net, control, free

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