Iris - Free Syntax Highlighter

Iris - Free Syntax Highlighter: "Iris is an open source syntax highlighter built in C#. It has a rich web interface that lets you highlight nearly 500 syntaxes"

Visual * 2008 Express Edition

Here's a couple of links to remind me to download this stuff. :)

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition

Visual C# 2008 Express Edition

40 Bloggers Over 40

I figured I'd post a link to this article on bloggers over 40 as I will be joining their ranks in a matter of days.

JavaScript Libraries

Some of the JavaScript libraries I've been using lately:

• Prototype (and here's more info on using Prototype)
• Control.Modal which uses Prototype to create modal windows.
• Ext has some pretty interesting user interface elements. It uses Prototype and Striptaculous. (Ext demos and documentation)

MailTo Links

This site has some useful info on the mailto syntax. They've also got a page for encoding email addresses to help stop spam.

XSL Textarea Collapse Problem

Heuristic Blog has an solution to collapsing textarea controls.

XSL Textarea Collapse Problem : "a hack that seemed to do the trick: inserting a <xsl:value-of select="@unknown"> tag pointing to an unknown attribute."

Make the Logo Bigger

MaketheLogoBigger.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements

David Findley's Blog : VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements: "This macro will take the current selection, parse it for using statements, group and sort them..."

Shutdown Command

This article on restarting a remote computer lists the command line arguments for the shutdown command.

SQL Server Code,Tips and Tricks, Performance Tuning: How To Restart A Remote Computer

I've had to use shutdown -a in the past to abort system shutdowns.

Wikiseek

Wikiseek: "A better way to search Wikipedia"

Wikiseek is a Google-like search for Wikipedia and it's external links that also allows you to choose from related categories. It looks pretty cool so far.

AJAX Patterns

AJAX Patterns: Design Patterns for AJAX Usability

There's also a wiki at ajaxpatterns.org.

PureText

"PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a PASTE, followed by a SELECT-ALL, and then a COPY. The benefit of PureText is performing all these actions with a single Hot-Key and having the result pasted into the current window automatically."

Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks

Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks