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Programmers all have their pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, we've come to accept that there are certain nuisances that come with our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow (you must be a closed beta tester to access the link) along with some of my own experiences as a programmer: These are pretty spot on. Link: http://www.kevinwilliampang.com...Labels: development
 codebase brings together source control, issue/ticket management & deployment tracking. If you find yourself managing multiple software projects and need a central place to organise your code. Link: http://codebasehq.com/Labels: development, open source, software
 it’s one of the smallest PCs in the world, with each side measuring around 2 inches square. I wrote that it looked cool, ran on a 300MHz processor and that it probably wouldn’t be sold outside of Japan, if at all. Link: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/27/...Labels: hardware, linux
At FlashDen you can buy and sell files to use in your Adobe Flash projects. You’ll find everything from preloaders to site templates, all selling for as little as $1 Link: http://flashden.net/Labels: flash
Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as possible. Another great utility from SysInternals Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspxLabels: microsoft, software, windows
Humans have a natural tendency to find order in sets of information, a skill that has proven difficult to replicate in computers. Faced with a large set of data, computers don't know where to begin -- unless they're programmed to look for a specific structure, such as a hierarchy, linear order, or a set of clusters.
Now, in an advance that may impact the field of artificial intelligence, a new model developed at MIT can help computers recognize patterns the same way that humans do. Link: http://www.physorg.com/news138893926.htmlLabels: technology
This is a great way to look at a website and see what links are tagged as NoFollow, meaning the link will not count as a vote in Google. This is a must on your website if you don't want to be penalized for linking to know spammer sites or what Google calls a 'Bad neighborhood'. With this little Firefox hack you can quickly see what links have been tagged - for reviewing your website or any other. Link: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seeing-nofollow-links/Labels: css, seo
TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web—even if it has been modified. This is a very cool, specialized search engine that can really help find out if someone is stealing your images. Its kinda of like copyscape but for images. TinEye is what I used to find out that a blogger had stolen one of my blog posts and had hot-linked the images from my server. Check it out, it's worth the time... Link: http://ideeinc.com/products/tineye/Firefox plugin (this is what I run): http://tineye.com/pluginLabels: graphics, website
 See what happens to your blog when you hotlink to someone else's images: Labels: scammers
Another website steals my blog copy and images. What's funny is they say the blog post is protected by CopyScape. What a joke since it was directly lifted ( stolen) from my work. Good Job on the original content. My Original Post: ...relocate-menu-bar-in-ie7-to-top-of.htmlLabels: scammers
SyncToyWith new sources of files coming from every direction (such as digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops), SyncToy can help you copy, move, and synchronize different directories Tweak UIThis PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. Power CalculatorWith this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions. Image ResizerThis PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click. Alt-Tab ReplacementWith this PowerToy, in addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps particularly when multiple sessions of an application are open. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/...Labels: microsoft, software, windows
Who said Excel takes lot of time / steps do something? Here is a list of 15 incredibly fun things you can do to your spreadsheets and each takes no more than 5 seconds to do. Link: http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/08/01/...Labels: microsoft, software
Tables have got to be one of the most difficult objects to style in the Web, thanks to the cryptic markup, the amount of detail we have to take care of, and lack of browser compatibility. A lot of time could be wasted on a single table although it’s just a simple one. This is where this article comes in handy. It will show you ten most easily implemented CSS table designs so you can style your tables in a zap! Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/...Labels: css
"15 datacenters hosting 148,357 servers sitting on 17,406 racks consuming 72,500KW of utility power as of the end of January 2008 (as indicated by the bar chart). If you’re a bit of a imperial measurement person, that’s 97,000 horsepower." Link: http://www.istartedsomething.com/...Labels: hardware, microsoft
 CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. Start a new project, join an existing one, or download software created by the community. As you would assume its a lot of projects written using MS technologies like ASP.NET. Link: Labels: microsoft, open source
Take the test and see. You only have 8 seconds per question so its fast. Don't cheat and post the score you got the first time through I scored a 27Link: http://www.flashbynight.com/test/Labels: fun
I didn't know that Microsoft was releasing the monthly security updates to a DVD ISO image as well as through the Windows Update tool. I guess for someone in an enterprise environment a DVD of the updates may be a desirable thing. August 2008 DVD ISO: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...Labels: microsoft, security, windows
"In computer science, a hash collision or hash clash is a situation that occurs when two distinct inputs into a hash function produce identical outputs." Why you shouldn't be hashing with MD5 anymore if you have access to the SHA-1 algorithm. MD5 collisions can be made in hours or minutes on a standard notebook computer. This basically renders the hash useless for highly sensitive information. Link: http://www.links.org/?p=6Labels: security
Somewhere around 1984 and who would have thought the judges hats would actually be in style and considered cool. Labels: videos
Have a website or collection of sites you'd like to search over? With Custom Search Engine, you can harness the power of Google to create a search engine tailored to your needs. To see this search in action just look at the Search used on this blog. Link: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/Labels: google
You have a website and can't figure out why it's not showing up at the top of Google's search rankings. You go to Google.com for some guidance but get lost trying to find answers.
Certainly, achieving visibility in Google's search rankings can be a mystery. To help solve the riddle, USA TODAY sat down with Google's Matt Cutts, an engineer and active blogger, who has five easy tips on how to "optimize" your site so Google (GOOG) and the rest of the world can find it. Link: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/...Labels: seo
 With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames. Great tool for SEO as it gives you not only the search term you requested but also breakout search terms relating to yours. Link: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#Labels: google, seo
Using food-grade essential oils, assemble 3.75ml orange oil; 3ml lime oil; 1ml lemon oil; 1 ml cassia oil (nb. reduce cassia content for next production); 0.75ml nutmeg oil; 0.25ml coriander oil (6 drops); 0.25ml lavender oil (6 drops); 0.25ml neroli oil (optional/removed due to high cost).
Using a measuring syringe... Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle...Labels: fun
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Submit your planned newsletter/ad/etc. (via SpamCheck Form or via e-mail). In seconds, we'll return a Spam Score and recommendations on how to reduce the likelihood of your e-mail being filtered. Whether is accurate or not at least its something. Wish I could find an open source PHP solution so I can play around with the algorithms a bit. Anyway, use it if you like and let me know if it worked for you or not. Link: http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/Labels: security, website
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Link: http://www.synthasite.com/Labels: free, website
DM2 provides Windows enhancements that helps in every-day work. This overview is a good starting point and a DM2 introduction since it covers the basics of all functionalities. Don't forget that all described DM2 functions are very configurable and may be set to match user personal needs - Minimize to floating icon
- Minimize to tray
- Hide window
- Align and resize
- Enhanced system menu
- Opacity and On-top flag
- Process priority
- Open/Save dialog favorites & recent
Link: http://dm2.sourceforge.net/overview.htmlLabels: open source, software, windows
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