Google Suggest Dissected

Here'a an interesting analysis of the Google Suggest javascript code - Google Suggest Dissected...

Curbside Limb Pick Up

Here's a link to the curbside tree limb pickup info for Overland Park.
Curbside Limb Pick Up

NPQ

New Perspectives Quarterly - "Cutting-edge debate on current affairs"

Picasa: Free Photo Software From Google

Picasa: Automated Digital Photo Organizers, Picture Software, Instant Photo Albums, Sharing, Printing

Hiding the Image Toolbar in IE

Hiding the Image Toolbar in IE:

You can make your page not display the image toolbar on an image-by-image basis by adding GALLERYIMG="no" to the <IMG> tag, as shown in the following code example:

<IMG SRC="mypicture.jpg" HEIGHT="100px" WIDTH="100px" GALLERYIMG="no">

Or you can disable the display of the image toolbar for an entire Web page by setting the HTTP-EQUIV and CONTENT attributes of the META element. Set HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" and CONTENT="no". Just put the following code in the HEAD section of your page, and IE doesn't display the image toolbar for any image in the page.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no">

XPath Visualizer

The XPath Visualizer Version 1.4: "This is a full blown Visual XPath Interpreter for the evaluation of any XPath expression and visual presentation of the resulting nodeset or scalar value."

AKA XPath Visualiser

The writings of Charles Darwin on the web

The writings of Charles Darwin on the web: "The most complete collection of Darwin's work ever published- with original page numbers, illustrations etc."

Sysinternals Freeware

Sysinternals Freeware: "The Sysinternals web site provides you with advanced utilities, technical information, and source code related to Windows NT/2000/XP/2K3 and Windows 9x, Windows Me internals"

MONSTER ATTACK!!!

MONSTER ATTACK!!!

And here's the monster attack page and a monster attack bookmarklet.

Update: Unfortunately his site's been suspended. To bad as it was a pretty cool effect.

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System

This was pretty cool looking.

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System: "S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well."

Group Policy Editor

To get to the Windows Group Policy Editor, run gpedit.msc

September .NET User Group

I went to the September .NET User Group meeting on Tuesday. They announced that Microsoft has changed its mind and all the new XML stuff they talked about last time is cancelled. It may become available as a SourceForge project.

The talk was on Test Driven Development, which I thought seemed somewhat impractical.

I discovered Dan Mannes, one of the new employees at work, also attends these user group meetings. I'd thought he looked familiar.

August .NET Users Group Meeting

The topic for this month's Kansas City .NET User Group meeting was "Introduction to System.Xml and Web Services" and the presenter was Microsoft MVP in XML, Jeff Julian. He's the creator of the .NET Book Club and hosts the blogging system Geekswithblogs.net.

Some highlights (Microsoft propaganda?) from the meeting. I forgot my notebook so they're from memory.

• Microsoft is deprecating XSLT in favor of XQuery. System.Xml.Xsl is going to be marked as obsolete in .NET 2.0 and will return warning messages when its used.
• XmlDocument and the XML DOM are also being deprecated in favor of improved XML streaming techniques that will allow editing not just appending to the end of the stream.
• SAX is bad because its Java and its old. (See what I mean about the propaganda?)
  
• He demonstrated using XmlDocument, XPathNavigator, XmlReader, XmlWriter, and used a web service to demonstrate XML serialization.

I ran into former co-workers Galen and Derrick Vidacak at the meeting and had a good time talking to Derrick for a while after the meeting.

Retrieving Stored Proc Info

Here's an article about retrieving information about stored procedures in SQL Server.
HOW TO: Retrieve information of Stored Procedure in SQL Server

Tools and controls

Here's a list of some tools and controls

Lookout Search Addin For Outlook

Microsoft bought Lookout and has released their addin as a free download.

Download details: Lookout V1.2: "Lookout is lightning-fast search for your email, files, and desktop integrated with Microsoft Outlook. Built on top of a powerful search engine, Lookout is the only personal search engine that can search all of your email from directly within Outlook - in seconds..."

IISReset Utility

IISReset Utility: "One of the most significant reliability improvements in IIS 5.0 and Windows 2000 Server is the reliable restart feature (IISReset) of IIS 5.0. It allows an administrator to restart Web services without rebooting the computer from a command line. This article discusses the IISReset utility, its options, & how to use the command line version of the tool."

Have you "met Dr. Thip"?

The Saturnian moons that will be observed by the Cassini probe are:

Mimas [MY-mass]
Enceladus [en-SELL-ah-dus]
Tethys [TEE-this]
Dione [dy-OH-nee]
Rhea [REE-a]
Titan [TY-tun]
Hyperion [hi-PEER-ee-en]
Iapetus [eye-AP-i-tus]
Phoebe [FEE-bee]

Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta Products

Microsoft has some .NET 2.0 development tools at MSDN Lab that have gone to beta and can be freely downloaded. They include "Visual C# 2005 Express", "Visual Web Developer
2005 Express", and "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition".

Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta Products

Here's a couple of links with some more info:
Whidbey Beta 1 Ships
Visual Studio 2005 Express Products (Includes a link to MSDN Express that didn't seem to be with the other express products)

Paint.NET

Paint.NET: "Paint.NET is a senior design project aided by a mentor at Microsoft. It is a paint program designed entirely by students and written using Microsoft's .NET Framework. The program makes it easier to create and edit photos. It maintains some of the best features of the original MS-Paint application and includes new, powerful tools. Such new tools include a history storage for undos and redos, and powerful multi-layering which is often seen only in high-quality, expensive photo-applications. This product was engineered with the latest in graphics and coding technology such as the new C# language from Microsoft, and the GDI+ graphics libraries. These programming frameworks allowed for the creation of a speedy, responsive application with an amazing array of graphic capabilities."