Links of the week

Links of the Week #42 (week 26/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:36:44 GMT

Development

IconExperience - V-Collections - Great icon pack. Not free, but highly professional.
VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension - Right click in Explorer and open Cassini right there. Neat.
ASP.NET Inline Tags - Descriptions of all kinds of ASP.NET inline tags.
MS Virtual Earth Winforms User Control

Freeware

Freeware PDF Unlocker v1.0.4 - Crack open PDF files for free. (via Zakladi interneta)

Fun

MythBusters Results - Outcomes from all Myth Busters Episodes.

Software

I8kfanGUI - Dell Inspiron/Latitude/Precision fan control utility
iSpring - PowerPoint to Flash converter

System

Windows Explorer Folder View settings - Registry tweak to make Vista remember folder settings and not try to guess.

Webdesign

ExpressionEngine - Another CMS.

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #41 (week 25/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:27:28 GMT

Development

Enabling syntax highlighting in a RichTextBox - Free syntax highlighting richtextbox with C# syntax with source code.
10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock - Yummy!
C# (.NET) Interface for 7-Zip Archive DLLs - Real thing, not standard output/input magic.
Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever - I'll try to remember this list when next .NET newcomer asks... Have couple of them in my library.

Internet

Google Analytics AIR beta - Google Analytics desktop client written in Adobe AIR. Where are this kinds of apps for Silverlight? I have a feeling AIR has already won over Silverlight. Too bad. :(

Kids

foldschool - Free home-made cardboard furniture.
LEGO Digital Designer - Virtual Lego Building Software

Photography

MOO.com - Print your photos in variety of formats and get delivered anywhere in the world.
Portrait Lighting Cheat Sheet Card - Just what a title says. I must get me a umbrella already.

Slovenia

HočemTo! - Slovenian little “Think Geek” wannabe shop.

Software

Mount an ISO image in Windows Vista – Using Virtual Clone Drive.

System

TrID - File Identifier - A program to identify files by their content if you somehow "lost" the extension.
Speeding Up Vista Boot Time - Why the heck is this optional?

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #40 (week 23 & 24/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:34:48 GMT

Development

SQL Server Programming Hacks - Collection of SQL tips and tricks.
SqlAssist - Another SQL Server intellisense add-on. ($49)
memcached: a distributed memory object caching system - High-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
Empty EventArgs - Nice tip for using EventArgs.
An Example of a Multi Tier Architecture for Linq to Sql
LINQ to SQL N-tier Smart Client - Home

Design

Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit 1.0 - Visio, PNG, SVG (and other formats) stencils for UI design.

Internet

Free DNS Reporting - Another free DNS reporting tool. In beta, more results to follow. (link!)

Kids

Poisson Rouge - Web games for children...

Project.management

A Reusable Scrum Presentation
Scrum in Five Minutes - Short PDF about Scrum

Sharepoint

Podcasting Kit for Sharepoint - Looks like a nice solution for those recorded meetings and internal Friday presentations at work.

Software

NexusFile - Norton Commander clone from Korea.
Photoscape - Free photo viewer and editor. Has some really nice features like adding borders, combining photos and more. Needs a serious facelift, though.
Cropper - Free .NET screen capture software.
Depeche View - Very interesting text searching software.
Speed Testing the Latest Web Browsers - War of the browser as heating again. FF3, Safari and Opera 9.5 are all looking very good.

System

Free DNS Reporting tools - Another free online DNS tool

Web

goosh.org - The unofficial google shell. You have to try this one. :) This just might be my homepage!

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #39 (week 22/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:20:05 GMT

Development

Why use the Entity Framework? - Everybody wants to know...
Microsoft Source Analysis for C# - Not quite ReSharper's analysis, but it's free and from MS.
Logging LINQ To SQL Output to Console or Debugger Output Window - Nice little class to log LINQ2SQL SQL statements to debug window.
Envy Code R - Another great coders font. I'm not going to use it in Visual Studio, I like Consolas too much. But it got a trial in my command prompt / Console.

Design

40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART - Bitchin' icons from devianART. Don't know why I would use them, but extremely pretty.

Fun

What happened to the Food!

Graphics

Big Buck Bunny - Open source cartoon.

Software

Moffsoft FreeCalc - Nice free calculator replacement.

Sport

Euro 2008 Web Part for Sharepoint 2003/2007 - The frenzy is about to begin in about a week, and this should go on every intranet!

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #38 (week 21/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:23:45 GMT

Development

ResEx - Translation friendly resx editor for strings. Great for internationalization of small projects.
Resource Refactoring Tool - Extract hard coded strings to resx file with style.
SQL Assistant - SQL autocomplete and more for SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access...
Pex - Automated Exploratory Testing for .Net - Uh-oh. Have to look at Pex. Do watch the screencast!
Smart java to C# conversion for the masses with sharpen - From the makers of db4o... comes Java to C# converter.
Community Kit for SharePoint - Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common interest.

System

Getting the best possible preformance from your VPCs - Tips on how to improve Virtual PC images performance. Straightforward, but nice to have a checklist.

Web

Configure Firefox 3 to use Gmail as your default email app - Another sweet feature of FF3.

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #37 (week 20/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:24:56 GMT

Development

6 useful visual studio tweaks you need to know
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta - A long list of changes and improvements in SP1 of .NET 3.5. It looks like this is bigger that 3.5 altogether! ;) Looking forward to Astoria, Entity Framework and more.
Yaml .NET Parser - Yaml is much like JSON and a really nice way to represent data in lists.
Redirect LINQ to SQL DataContext Log Messages To Log4Net - I'm going to implement this first thing Monday morning...

Career

How to answer 23 of the most common interview questions - On the spot.

Photography

Epic Edits Weblog - Subscribed.
Getting to Grips with Image Management - Neil Creek's photography workflow described. In a sentence: shoot in Raw, process in Light room, store DNG RAW, export, backup.
Lightroom & Flickr Uploadr set up - Just create a shortcut to "Flickr Uploadr" in "Export Actions" folder and you are good to go! Sweet.
LR2/Mogrify - Lightroom add-in for sharpening and watermarking after exporting for web.
Sharpening strategy for web using the sharpening tools in Photoshop - Another sharpening strategy for the web. PS action available for download.
Online Depth of Field Calculator
The Photoshop Anthology - Free Photoshop e-book. Offer expires in less than a month.

Slovenia

Prednosti prehoda iz podatkovne zbirke Oracle na zbirko Microsoft SQL Server - Free Microsoft event in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Slovar spletnih izrazov - Dictionary of web Internet terms. Under construction.

Software

WorldWide Telescope - Google / Live Earth for the sky. Why not Silverlight? At least page if not the whole program.

System

Quad Core Overclocking - Steps and utilities to overclock a quad-core processor.

Web

Zenbe - Beautiful online email, calendar and more. can integrate with Gmail, Yahoo and Live.

Software Updates

Links of the Week #35 & 36 (week 18 & 19/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:30:10 GMT

Two weeks edition due to strange times at Vidmar's house.

Development

How to easily parse HTML without RegEx - Using HtmlAgilityPack, that is.
Day-to-day with Subversion - Walkthrough of "first days" with a project on SVN. Nice tutorial for starting with branching and merging.
Expresso - Regular Expression Development Tool.
Introducing RockScroll - RockScroll extends the scrollbar in Visual Studio to show a syntax highlighted thumbnail view of your source.
Visual Studio 2008 certifications - Some tips and explanations about VS2008 certification. Not that I plan pursuing one any day soon...

Design

Icojoy - Some nice free icons.
Circular Icons - 100+ free 16x16 icons

Other

75 Skills Every Men Should Be Able to Do - I have some catching up to do...

Photography

ExifTool - THE (command line) tool for managing EXIF info in digital photographs.
ExifTool GUI - Windows GUI for Exif tool. Looks to me like it is from my contryman. Way to go!

Software

Community Clips - Free screencast recording app from Microsoft.
Opera Dragonfly (Alpha) - The foundations of Opera's upcoming Developer Tools. Like Firebug, only from Opera.

System

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition - Free antivirus that has some nive reviews all over the web. Switched from Avast Home.
FIX: Windows Vista Folder View Issue - How to fix annoying feature of Vista.

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #34 (week 17/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:23:17 GMT

Due to special circumstances this weeks links are very light. More in a few days.

Local

T-2 snemalnik - Networked PVR on my IPTV provider. Sweet.

System

Redmond Path - Edit PATH environment variable in Windows GUI. Nice idea!
A handy PowerShell script to keep your Sysinternals Suite up to date - Similar to GetSysinternals.

Webdesign

7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design - Google Analytics and 6 more free web analytics tools.

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #33 (week 16/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:38:09 GMT

Development

Raising events using extension methods - Interesting idea about code minimization when creating/raising/using custom events.
Common Solutions for T-SQL Problems - New SQL FAQ at MSDN Code Gallery.
10 Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know - Nice shortcut list for VS users. CTRL + . was new for me.
Migrating part of repository in SVN - Instructions on how to move just a part of a repository to another repository.

Humor

(The Customer is) Not Always Right - Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes.

Internet

Use Twitter To Stay On Top Of The .NET Programming News - A long list of .NET experts on Twitter. (Dr. T dunks again)

Photography

Fake model photography - Simple Photoshop tutorial on how to turn regular live-size object pictures to look like models. Here are my two attempts at technique.

System

Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation - More info about converting Windows Server 2008 to Vista-like desktop system.

Software Updates

Jobs

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ASP.NET Web Developer at Reflection Software, Woodridge, Illinois, US
Application Developers for Airborne Mobile, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Senior SQL Server DBA/developer Chicago at TUSC, Lombard, Illinois, US

Links of the Week #32 (week 15/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:13:24 GMT

Development

DocProject for Sandcastle - DocProject drives the Sandcastle help generation tools using the power of Visual Studio 2005/2008 and MSBuild.
6 free online editors for your asp.net site - A review of 6 xHTML editor controls.

Blogging

Wordpress Automatic upgrade Plugin - It does just what it say, and judging from reviews on blogs, it does it well.

Games

Bloxorz - Heavily addictive flash puzzle game. (found via non other than Dr.T!)

Internet

Password Generator - Different kind of password generator. Pretty!

Photography

Wedding Poses Checklist - Pro weddings photographers wedding posses checklist.
Your Best Friend's Wedding - 10 tips that will help survive shooting your first wedding.
hugin - Open source panorama photo stitcher.

Slovenia

Wordpress 2.5 Ĺľe govori slovensko! - Slovenian language files for Wordpress 2.5.

Software

ScrewTurn Software - Open source ASP.NET wiki engine.

System

WinSplit Revolution - Organize windows on your desktop with hotkeys.
Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS - I'm going to try Win2008 this week and this is a possible outcome.

Video

Adobe View Workshop - Learning to use my new video camera.
Tutorial for Converting AVCHD (mts) Files into HD mpeg 2 on Vimeo - It is a big shock when you first play with HD camera, when you learn you can't (yet!) just edit MTS files in video editing software. Here is one if the best ways to fix the problem.

Web design

Most Useful 50 CSS Tips And Tools For Webmasters