Links of the week

Links of the Week #65

David Vidmar — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:20:14 GMT

Development

Extending the Visual-Studio Context-Menu - Holy crap, this is cool.
SQL Server Programming Hacks - SQL Server tricks and scripts.
using svnsync - Nice story about syncing SVN repositories. Just used it.
BizTalk 2006 Message Archiving Pipeline Component
Biztalk assembly version updater
ScintillaNET - THE code editing control wrapped up in .NET control. Used by Notepad++, Notepad2 and others.
URL rewriting in ASP.NET 2.0 with simple code sample
Graphical Execution Plans for Simple SQL Queries
XNExtensions - XNA extension methods library.
Branded Video Players, Hosted Video, Embed Video, White Label YouTube

Photography

The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3)
Six Photography Projects You Can Print Or Fold - Just in time for holidays.

Shopping

PIXMANIA - Pan euro online electronics shop. Great for deals from UK, while GBP is so weak.
Gamestation.co.uk

Software

Tweak UI For Windows Vista
Open DBDiff - Open source database schema comparison tool for SQL Server 2005.
Gaea+ - Google Earth clone in Java by Slovenian company. Web start enabled, so you can just run it, no install needed.
LaptopLock - Data protection and recovery help for lost or stolen laptops (computer theft recovery)
PA Server Monitor - Get PA Server Monitor Lite for Free.
Photodex ProShow - The professional’s choice for slide show software. (commercial)

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #64

David Vidmar — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:25:17 GMT

Development

DebuggerDisplay Attribute
Is Linq to SQL Dead? Yes, but… - Some clarification on somewhat hot topic of Linq2SQL being left to die...
Oxite: OpenSource CMS from Microsoft built on ASP.NET MVC - At the moment this is not a end-user CMS.
The Ten Most Asked SQL Server Questions And Their Answers
Excel Financial functions for .NET - This is a .NET library that provides the full set of financial functions from Excel. The main goal for the library is compatibility with Excel, by providing the same functions, with the same behavior. Note though that this is not a wrapper over the Excel library; the functions have been re-implemented in managed code so that you do not need to have Excel installed to use this library.
What’s new in SQL Server 2008 - Short and sweet.

Design

Photography

Shopping

5 Million Dollar Home - Crumpler photo bag - Sadly, not available in the EU.

Software

JavE - JavE is a free Ascii Editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using Ascii characters. It is like a graphics editor for editing texts instead of images.
Small Basic - Small Basic is a project that's aimed at bringing "fun" back to programming. By providing a small and easy to learn programming language in a friendly and inviting development environment, Small Basic makes programming a breeze. Ideal for kids and adults alike, Small Basic helps beginners take the first step into the wonderful world of programming.
DiffMerge - SourceGear's diff and merge application. Free, portable. It's supposed to be better that TortoiseMerge.

Software Updates

Byte my bites Jobs

Links of the Week #63

David Vidmar — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:19:00 GMT

Development

Call Virtual Functions From Constructors? - Explanation why that's not healthy. C# compiler or VS don't give any errors or warnings, but Resharper does.
XAML Power Toys
Entity Framework learning guide
How to use T4 to generate .config files
Splitting Subversion repositories
What It Takes To Be A Great Technical Lead

Books

.NET Book Zero - What the C or C++ Programmer Needs to Know About C# and the .NET Framework by Charles Petzold

Design

Veer: Ideas: Wallpaper - Cool wallpapers. Login required but you can use BugMeNot.com)

Photography

Poladroid project - The easiest and funniest Polaroid Image Maker

Software

Helvetireader - Greasemonkey script that makes Google Reader oh'so cool.
Firefox Add-on Compatibility Report
JIRA Enhancer Plugin

Web

TextFlow - Fascinating parallel word processing.

Software Updates

Jobs

browse | syndicate | post a job

Links of the Week #62 (week 48/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:00:09 GMT

Development

Application Architecture Visios Now Available
C# - How to get Program Files (x86) on Vista x64
Microsoft Web Platform - Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Determining the Build Date of an Assembly
List of Out of the box WCF Bindings (including 3.5)
ObjectListView: A Much Easier Way to use a ListView
dokuwiki - DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies.

Fun

Jon Skeet Facts? - Some developer humor. If you are not programmer, DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK!

Photography

PresetsHeaven - Free Lightroom presets.

Project management

15 Useful Project Management Tools

Software

SaphuA - Minimize open windows to SINGLE try icon. Neat.
Firefox, kot je meni všeč - Favorite Firefox add-ins by Črni Peter. (slovenian)
XMLmind XML Editor
Microsoft PressPass - Image Gallery

Software Updates

Links of the Week #61 (week 47/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:07:31 GMT

Development

Extended RichTextBox - Free WordPad like .NET control with source. VB.NET.
patterns & practices: App Arch Guide 2.0 Knowledge Base - The App Arch guide provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework.
Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#

Design

Fun

Let me google that for you

Photography

Creating black and white cutouts

Software

Universal Wiki Converter - Convert from other wikis to Confluence.

Web

Cameroid - Use your webcam to take photos online!

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #60 (week 46/2008)

David Vidmar — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:09:06 GMT

Design

50 Incredible Fonts for Professional Web & Print Design

Graphics

Cult-foo - 50 free icons

Humor

God's Facebook Wall

Software

SystemExplorer Homepage - Free system management tool. Process Explorer + AutoRuns + Services + Open Files + ...
Balsamiq Mockups Home - Software for designing software mockups. Also available as Jira & Confluence add-ins. Not free.

Webdesign

50 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes - Every time I get a feeling I could design something, a list like this comes and I see that I can't design sh**.

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #59 (week 45/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:39:34 GMT

Development

WPF Toolkit adds Ribbon Control to .NET 3.5 SP1
CodeRush Xpress for Visual Studio - "Free Coding Assistance Add-in for Visual Studio Developers"
Regular Expression Designer - "free download that helps programmers learn, develop and test Regular Expressions. It is an interactive Windows application that is designed to be simple and easy to use"
Using managed code to detect what .NET Framework versions and service packs are installed
Papercut - Fake SMTP server for email sending testing.

Shopping

gameware.at - Austrian online computer game shop.
DealExtreme - Gadget shopping site, free shipping.

Software

Hide Time Tracking estimates from certain users (e.g. customers) - Jira patch to hide time tracking info from customers.
NASA Night Launch - Finally a decent dark Firefox theme.
TeamViewer - Free Desktop Sharing and Remote Control
Top 10 Things to Look Forward to in Windows 7

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #58(week 44/2008)

David Vidmar — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:59:12 GMT

Development

SVN-Monitor
dbdeploy - Database Change Management Tool
Selenium IDE - "... integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests."

Music

Create A Free US iTunes Account

Photography

seam-carving-gui - GUI for CAIR a.k.a. Content aware image resizing tool

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #57 (week 42/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:51:23 GMT

Development

.NET Splash Screen Component
The Official Faculty of The Mind Visual Studio Theme - Dark / blueish VS theme.
Visual Studio Properties Window Search/Find Plugin - Search/filter properties window in Visual Studio.
Silverlight 2 Released

Software

How to check LCD displays for dead pixels - Util for testing for dead pixels.
MKN TaskExplorer 5.0 - Task manager replacement that looks (works?) better that Process Explorer from SysInternals.
PicPick - Promising freeware and portable screenshot software. Add to my toolbox.

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the Week #56 (week 41/2008)

David Vidmar — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:49:38 GMT

Development

babelobfuscator - Open source .NET obfuscator.
Shadow Copying of Applications - This will come in handy one day, I just feel it.
Using Windows SDK Vista Bridge Sample Library - Hot to use Vista's API from .NET.
Did you know? You can keep recently-used files from falling off the File Tab Channel? - Have to try this...
Release inflation - I had a post much like this planed. .NET is getting out of hands and frustrates the hell out of regular developers.

Cooking

Faster No-Knead Bread, Plus Whole Wheat

Photography

How to Geotag Images - How to automatically geotag images using GPS's track. Hey, big I, give me my GPS back! ;)

Software

Cinematic Screen Savers
inSSIDer - Wireless network scanner that works in Vista. (Netstumbler doesn't!?)

System

Set Up Universal Ad Blocking Through Your Router