Fun With Pie Charts

Here's a few links with some funny pie charts:

Percentage of Chart Which Resembles Pac-Man

Percentage of Chart Which Resembles Ms. Pac-Man

Notoriety as Renaissance Artists vs Ninja Turtles

We Have Pie Charts

What American Accent Do You Have?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
North Central
The West
Boston
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The South
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

Good Agile, Bad Agile

Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

This was the source of a few good laughs as I'm stuck doing Bad Agile and was rubbing my stiff neck when I read his quote about Scrums causing neck damage.

Some cool links

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

Here's a webpage with an area 17 billion times the surface area of the Earth.

Here's an explanation of why .99... = 1
And Wikipedia has some proofs and a page on recurring decimals.

Disable the “Restart Now” Message from Windows Update

How to Disable that Blasted “Restart Now” Message from Windows Update:"Press Windows-R, type “net stop wuauserv” in the box and press Enter."

Ajax Debugging

XmlHttpRequest Debugging for IE: a bookmarklet for Ajax debugging.

Toggling The C# Navigation Bar

Born to Code has a macro for toggling the C# navigation bar on and off. Turning it off speeds up the C# source code editor.

Visual Studio Spell Checker

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog : Spell Checker for HTML and ASP.NET pages: "Spell checker works in Source view, it is able to extract text from markup elements and use Office 2003 spell checker to check the text. Spell checker is able to handle entities to some extent (they are considered whitespace for now). It is also able to spell check values of attributes that typically contain human readable text."

EclipsePalette

EclipsePalette: "EclipsePalette is a color palette and screen color capture program designed for not only web designers, but Visual Basic, C++, C#, and Java developers as well."

Browse the GAC

Browse the GAC

The following registry entry allows browsing the GAC with Explorer

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion]
"DisableCacheViewer"=dword:00000010

Set it back to 0 to go back to the orginal view.

140 Resources on Online Tools, Generators, Checkers

Here's a list of tools for web developers:
140 Resources on Online Tools, Generators, Checkers - Listible

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcut Macro

Coding Horror: Keyboard shortcut summary macro - Queries the Visual Studio IDE for the actual keyboard bindings and produces a web page that lists your keyboard shortcuts.

Everything you always wanted to know about Task Manager but were afraid to ask

Coding Horror: Everything you always wanted to know about Task Manager but were afraid to ask

Visual Studio 2005: C# Code Snippets

The C# code snippets equivalent to the VB snippets that shipped with VS 2005 are finally out.
Visual Studio 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets

New PC

I'm in the progress of migrating to my new Dell Precision 380 Pentium D with dual flat screen monitors at work so I figured I'd post some links to info I've found useful when switching machines.

Disable Windows Server 2003 Shutdown Event Tracker

Command Prompt Here

Internet Explorer 5 Web Developer Accessories for the view partial source feature.

WMF Vulnerability

Microsoft Security Advisory (912840): Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution.

Here's a patch for the WMF vulnerability that the SANS institute is recommending.