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I can build that Web site in five notes
OK, I barely remember "Name that tune", but I think the meme is widespread enough for even the average juvenile dev to know. (for those even younger than I can imagine: NTT was a gameshow where people did a "reverse auction" to select how many notes they needed before they could name a song. Guess right, and you win big -- like a couch or something).
Anyway, this thought went through my head as I was looking at the source for an anonymous Web site about TechEd sessions today. I noticed that the page was 161,000+ bytes. Yes. Over 150KB. 32KB...
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And the winner for most contrived, but amusing product name goes to
RIDE-ME: "Rails IDE - minus Eclipse". It's an IDE for Ruby on Rails (written in .NET, amusingly enough) that I must make some time to look at.
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Wilco.SyntaxHighlighter: must download control
If you post source code to the Web, you simply *must* download Wilco Bauwer's SyntaxHighlighter. It's an ASP.NET control that formats, colourizes and generally makes said code look good. Incredibly easy to use as well -- register the control (Oh, did I mention he ships the source?), and add one or more of the controls to your page: language="ASPX" mode="Source" text='Your source code here' />
(Please forgive the fact that I'm not actually using the control in this post, but I wanted to post about it before I got around to installing it on my...
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Salary-sensitive org charts
Dr. E.L. Karsten is one of the great business minds of our time, and co-founder of one of my favourite companies - Despair, Inc. He did three videos for ZDNet, and his post on "Salary sensitive org charts" should have organizations changing everywhere. Oh, and Signs of a demotivated workforce is even better...