David Findley's Blog
My little home in the cloud.
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My portable thumb drive toolbox as of May 2006
Here's a list of my current usb thumb drive build out of portable apps and tools:
- Locknote - for all my little secrets (passwords and such)
- Portable Firefox
- Extensions:
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- Tabsidebar
- Gmail notifier
- Copy plain text
- Google toolbar
- Tiny url creator
- Tag editor
- DeepestSender
- Answers
- Web Developer
- Tabmix Plus
- CoLT
- Javascript Debugger
- Google Notebook
- Extensions:
- OperaUSB
- PortableThunderbird (email + rss aggregator)
- PortableSunbird (Calendar)
- Portable FileZilla
- PortableGAIM
- Notepad2
- SciTE
- Microburner
- Portable ClamWin
- ColorCop
- Lutz Roder's Reflector
- SnippetCompiler
- uTorrent
- TightVNC (server and client)
- Media Player Classic
- Autoruns
- DebugView
- FileMon
- RegMon
- Process Explorer
- Rootkit Revealer
- ZoomIt
- Bluescreen Screensaver
- Portable GIMP
- XAMP
- Instant Rails
To tie it all up I have an autorun for PStart, a nice launcher that sits in the tray. Lets me assign hotkeys to the most commonly used apps.
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Deepest Sender blog posting extension for firefox...
Lance Hunt hooked me up with some firefox extensions today. One of them is "Deepest Sender". Lets you blog right from your firefox browser!
I'm gonna give it a try over the next couple of weeks and see how it does.Although now that I hear they are upgrading weblogs.asp.net to community server maybe I'll wind up just blogging via email.
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E3 thoughts...
MS is kicking but and taking names with XBox 360. All the trailers and game demos on the marketplace was so cool. I love the live arcade games as well. Uno is alot of fun.
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CodePlex - OMG BBQ!
Just found CodePlex. Man this is great news. A hosted TFS site for source control and work item tracking all geared towards open/shared source development. Check out this link for connecting your Team Explorer to CodePlex.
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Migrating from System.Web.Mail to System.Net.Mail
I discovered how great the new System.Net.Mail namespace is this weekend.
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Scripting stored procs into a data project is useless for me now.
This is really frustrating. I used to ba able to script stored procs from the server explorer into a data project. It would create a single file for each proc and would look something like this:
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Starting the new job today...
Well, I traded in the corporate uniform for a jeans and t-shirt startup. As of today I am officially working for learnvisualstudio.net. This change has been a long time coming and I'm sure Bob is glad the waiting is over. While I will certainly miss all the great people at my previous job (Mary Kay), this is a great opportunity for me. I look forward to having the time and responsibility to be more involved with the .NET community.
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Going split personality...
I just took the MacBook Pro plunge. I must say it was very sureal to go through the XP install on Apple hardware. I got all my VPCs running under XP and VS.NET 2005. Looks like it will make a pretty sweet development machine. Since I love to play with technology, I'm looking forward to having access to both OS X and Windows. Now I can do my Ruby on Rails experiments properly. :)
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Atlas declarative blocks
The text/xml-script declarative model is great. I'd just like to see it declared outside of the .aspx file. Semething like an "ajax" behind file.
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AJAX thoughts
I was just reading through this post: http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2006/04/03/441767.aspx and it reminded me of some of the worries that I have about the various AJAX libraries.