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What's up with Firefox?
First off -- I *love* Firefox, and it's been my main browser (except for viewing MSDN or editing this blog [gotta fix that] or my Yahoo music) for quite a while now. However, version 1.5 has been blowing out semi-regularly on my laptop lately (see figure). Nothing crazy (IMO), certainly little has changed since 1.07, other than a few fewer extensions. Anyone else having these problems?
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[Currently listening to: Zebulon by Einsturzende Neubauten]
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Running multiple IE versions on one machine
For the stuff I'm trying to write the last couple of days, I needed copies of old versions of IE. I didn't feel like cranking out a new VPC or VMWare image (although, I'm loving the new VMWare Player), but I did find a nice archive of standalone versions of IE. Simply download, run, and enjoy.
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Ruby on Rails is now v. 1.0
Not that I care, of course, as I'm an "ASP.NET guy", but w00t! Ruby on Rails is now officially 1.0. I think I like Rails as it's a neat, seemingly powerful Web development framework (I qualify all of this as I haven't used it in anger yet).
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CSS property window for VS 2005
This will be quite handy, I think. A property window for editing CSS plugin in VS 2005 (sadly, I'm using VWD these days, so I can't really use it too much)Visual Studio 2005 provides some capabilities for visually editing the styles for
elements in an HTML or ASP.NET page. For example, in Design view, you can right-click a control or element, and
then choose Style to display the Style Builder dialog box. Although the style builder enables you to create
and edit in-line styles, there's
no way to edit the styles that are inherited from a
linked...
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Please explain these two headlines
I'm too lazy to read TFA, and the headlines themselves exploded my tiny mind...
XML-Enabled Printers integrate with Auto-ID Infrastructure. XML enabled printers?
N.Y. looks to expand use of XML So...?
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A review of Canadian Political Websites
In an attempt at boring everyone who reads this, I have decided to take a look at the Web sites of the parties registered in the upcoming election (news for my non-Canadian (especially the American) readers, Canada is having a federal election January 23, 2006). Not about the relative merits of each party, but about their technology choices for their Web sites.
First up, the major parties
Liberal Party - For my American friends, think "Democrats" and you'll be able to rationalize them. Site is running ASP.NET (albeit on IIS 5)! Written with VS2003! In VB.NET! Language selection is by a click...
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I'd finally have a reason to read {that} blog...
Oh, I hope it's not fake, looks too cool. (via Treehugger)
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Icons, we need lots of icons
If you've already downloaded and registered your Express editions, you've probably already seen IconBuffet's great selection of icons. However, they also have a free delivery service: every month, you get a set of icons that you can share with friends/collegues/pets.
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Coding4Fun Gift Guide
The first ever Coding4Fun gift guide is public. For those buying, I'll take just about everything on the list...
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Fishy Parables: Once there was a gardener
Once, not too long ago, and not too far away, there was a gardener. His garden wasn't very large, or full of fabulous plants, but he worked at his garden anyway. He planted both vegetables to feed others, and flowers, to make things attractive. He was happy in his garden, but others sought to change things. "Plant more roses", "Your rows aren't straight, like mine", "You should compost more often" they would say to him. Behind his back, a small group conspired. They decided to act during the annual garden competition -- they set up "community rules" for him to...
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For old times sake - new articles on MSDN/ASP.NET
Haven't seen these in the RSS feed yet, but the copies of Nikhil's amazing series on creating Data Source controls is now on MSDN:
The Basics
Parameters
Asynchronous Data Access
Caching
Design Time Functionality
Also, Dino continues his Crash Course on Control Creation series with Building Data-bound Controls. Finally, but definitely not least, Bill Evjen continues his ASP.NET 2.0 Jumpstart series with Establishing the Application and Page Framework. Oh, and I think this is new as well: Step-By-Step Guide to Converting Web Projects from Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003 to Visual Studio 2005
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DotNetSlackers - why am I the last one to know?
Finally looked at DotNetSlackers today, and me likie! Great resource for scanning what's out there in "the blogosphere".If you need more proof, here's their stats (from the home page): StatsTotal News: 11,516Last 30 days: 1,621Last 7 days: 150Today: 14All quite on topic and useful as well.