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

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.