Category · 53 posts
Cool sites
2007
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Real time data on your blog pages visitors
I really like http://whos.amung.us It shows real time data on who's on your site\blog right now by simply using a little gif file on each page (in the blog template, for example. here are the real time stats for my…
2006
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Israeli .NET bloggers you should read
I wanted to draw your attention to several prominent Israeli Bloggers in the world of .NET that I know and respect. (I'm only mentioning those that post regularly - I know and respect many more, but they don't write at…
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Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows - Updated
It's back, and it's bigger than ever, tighter around the edges, and storms into your hard drive faster than you can say "RegEdit". It's Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows If…
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YubNub - Command Line for Web Browsing
If you're a command line freak like I am (or like Scott is), maybe, just maybe, this YubNub site is for you. It's essentially a "command line" gadget for web browsing, that help create and run short commands instead of…
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TheServerSide.NET - The .NET Equivalent of SlashDot?
I am totally starting to respect TheServerSide.NET . Not only do they have some fabulous content up there, but now they've made the mistake of publishing my post on Agile Vs. Formal Methodologies a couple days ago, and…
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Need an online version of Word or Excel? Try Writely and iRows.
Ever wondered what an online version of Word might looks like? Try Writely . How about Excel? Well, the (Israeli) folks who brought you the coolest online calculator , now bring you iRows . I'm impressed.
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Read HackNot
A small reminder to self (and all of you) read all the archives of HackNot . This person writes brilliantly (not that I subscribe to all his views, but the argument should be fun!)
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Finally a "stable enough" build of Resharper 2.0 Alpha?
"I'm not uninstalling this one. 215 is "good enough" right now to boost my productivity. 2.0 has NUnit test-running capability through a UI widget, but I find that I still prefer the crude text output of TestDriven.Net…
2005
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Nice audio recordings about (Agile) management practices
From Johanna Rothman : The Orasi folks have posted my fall webinars, both the audio and PDF presentation. If you missed What Makes a Great Product Manager? Managing the Project Portfolio Delivering the Right Product on…
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Experiment: Free advertising on this blog
Update : Already got two- . 1 to go... Let's make this more interesting. If you submit an ad without the offer code (not free), I'll get rid of the Google ads today and your ad stays on top for the duration requested (1…
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How to see the TechEd US sessions online
Here's a simple way to view the recorded sessions from TechEd US from your browser, even if you didn't attend TechEd. Let's say you browse the breakout session catalog and you see an interesting session like : " ARC313…
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Nice Free Stock Photos site
This is a nice site with free stock photos one can download and use in their presentations (needs free registration but comes recommended by many people apprearently..) (via Beyond Bullets )
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New Advanced .NET Debugging Blog
Looks like there's a new hardcore debugging blog in town - from another Israeli blogger, no less - please welcome Eran Sandler's (not related..) Advanced .NET Debugging weblog . This guy is deep into debugging. Half the…
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Great set of icons
This is a great set of downloadable icons , many of which available for Windows. The link was sent to me by my lovely wife, Tal. (See if you can spot one familiar icon on the list...)
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Taking notice of Lucene: A searching & indexing library
Lucene is an indexing search engine. It's in Java, but it has ports to other languages including several for .NET . One of those several, dotLucene looks very well maintained and some great demos appear on the site. So…
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The new Larkware.com
It looks like one of my favorite sites - Larkware.com has taken on a new initiative - write more, and also get some real money for it. Here's the blurb from the brand new spiffy home page : "...As many of you know, I've…
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[OT] Infinite Cat
Silly as it may seem, I was laughing out loud to myself while browsing this site . Yes. It's the Infinite cat project . Got it through Rory through Richard . The idea is as simple as it is hypnotic. Some guy took a…
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How to schedule an online meeting between totally different time zones
So what do you do when you want to setup an online meeting with a person on another part of the world? Scheduling sucks. I just found this little gem: It's the online meeting planner . It lets you enter 2 or more places…
2004
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More Geek Conversation you cen listen to in your car
One of the things I liked about .Net rocks is that every so often you get to listen to a really interesting person talk about some trivia regarding some technology aspect of our daily lives. For example, the show where…
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TopXML releases the System.XML reference online
Mark Wilson of TopXML pinged me to say that TopXML have released: The .NET System.XML reference So how's this different that other references? They actually have *useful* examples on the classes, with short, to the…
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Introducing "Project Distributor" - your .Net file and idea sharing ground
Darren Neimke (the person responsible for the beauty that is RegexLib.Com ) has created another cool web project: Project Distributor The idea - You have a cool code snippet, or a cool tool, or a cool anything to do…
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GMane: read mailing lists via news readers
this is a great find via the win-tech off topic mailing list: subscribe to mailing lists - from your newsreader! how? www.gmane.org allows subscribing to a mailing list but instead of getting it by email - you get it…
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Weird Google-like toy - Toogle!
Oh, this is a fun little toy: Toogle ! "Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search. Currently it creates images out of the very term that was used to fetch those images". [via Kenneth ]
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Developers.org.il is online with a face lift
http://www.Developers.org.il just got a new face lift. It is definitely starting to look and feel like a professional site. the only thing missing now is visitors. There already is some nice content in there (in…
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What works and what does not work on Virtual PC 2004
I saw this in a random blog post ( can't find it now so I can't link to it :( ): What works and what does not work on Virtual PC 2004 (622 items listed right now)
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Microsoft Research introduces RSS Feeds, *finally*
The Microsoft research site has been redesigned. Streamlined. I like it. But, that's not what's important here. Guess what these are? News and Headlines Downloads Publications Yep. Subscribed.
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Thanks for the System.Web.Mail FAQ, Dave
I just wanted to take the stage to thank Dave Wanta for putting up the site “ System.Web.Mail FAQ ”. It just saved me from some really obscure problem. Dave also has many other very helpful endeavors and is seriously…
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The Best Unit Test framework in town
In the last IVBUG meeting I ran into the guy who created what he called “ The Best Unit Test framework in town ”. His name is Bnaya and he is one cool dude who is excited about technology in the way that I recognize in…
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Scheduling games
Found this one on my referrer list: Scheduled Games , people post about their experiences about scheduling games withing a project. Very familiar stuff in there, and my story was put there as one of the last points to…
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Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness
Speaking of bad designs (well, I'm sure somewhere in the world someone just mentioned it): Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness [via This is broken ]
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Unit testing resources
AndrewSeven asks if I know any more links to unit testing stuff, especially NunitASP. While I don't have necessarily have links about NUnitASP, here are some more resources: Darrell's Test Driven Link'o rama The XP…
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Sam Gentile on Test Driven Development
Just started listening to Sam Gentile on the .Net Rocks show , and he's talking about exactly what's the main thing in my .net life right now: doing test driven development. Very cool and very interesting. Although slow…
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[Tool] Easier log parsing with Log Parser
Speaking of parsing log files , There's a little known tool called LogParser , and it's from the Microsoft IIS team. This very powerful parser can easily parse various kinds of log files and you can actually query…
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Some cool links
While I promised myself I would not go down the linky road that Mike Gunderloy has managed to turn into an art form, here I go just the same. Jon Galloway points to useful classes and libraries posted by the C# team on…
2003
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MyRss.com is to Feedable as...
Well, I'm totally impressed. MyRSS.com (link via Cameron ) are offering the same service as Feedable , only they have an advantage: They automatically create the RSS feed on the fly from the site you give them, whereas…
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Cool handy site: DropLoad
This is another very handy site. Not everyone has an FTP site to upload files for their friends and sometimes hotmail's 1MB size limit just doesn't cut it. The site below will hold the file for 48 hours (and 48 hours…
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Service announcement: Feedable and Regulator live again, and Norway tips
Ah. My home machine is back up meaning Feedable is live again and so is The Regulator site. For some odd reason, the only person in the world who can not access these sites is little ol' me from Norway. Ah well, as long…
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Homesick, EIF and a session state FAQ
I dropped of the Mrs. this morning at the airport going back home to Israel. Will see her in a month and a half. Boy was that hard. Luckily it was a pretty swift goodbye since we were almost late for the plane. While…
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Cool Site: divil.co.uk
This site has a wealth of cool winforms controls, cool articles and generally is one of the *coolest* personal .Net sites I've seen in a while. I can totally get why he's a Code Hero . Recommended. (link via Joseph…
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SQLTeam rules: Cool tip + cool RSS feed= goodness in the blogsphere
SQLTeam is getting more and more credit from me for being so helpful: Cool tip on using ConnectionString settings in your web.config file so that you don't have to remember when to switch to your dev/liv webserver…
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MSDN chats RSS feed? you got it.
Duncan posted about the MSDN chats homepage and how badly it needs an RSS feed so... MSDN chats RSS feed courtesy of Feedable Also of interest might be the new RSS feed I created for Usability News Update : Oh, and Andy…
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Introducing SiteFeeder
Now you can have an RSS feed for almost any site you want. Introducing SiteFeeder . 'nuff said.
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Getting a focus on performance - some new pages
Brad Adams's performance team just posted their own page on GotDotNet . Very cool. That page also points to the MSDN performance center , which currently has lots more information. It's great to see performance focused…
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Good JavaScript reference and help
This site looks like a very promising resource for learning the basics (and no so basics) of JavaScript. It's something I'm just getting the hang of, and already I've found it very useful with a discussion about the…
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AmazReplacer - Convert Amazon's URL into your referrer URL automatically
I've created a small utility app that does that automatically takes whatever URL is in the clipboard , reformats it to be an Amazon referral URL and puts the result in the clipboard. Very easy and fast. You can download…
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Cool site: Software Reality
An innocent link in Benjamin's blog lead me to this very nice site about software development. It contains a lot of articles about lots of stuff, most with a touch of satire in them, but it all seems like its a very…
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Feeds of interest
MSDN magazine - recent articles: Feed MSDN - just published: Feed 4GuysFromRolla headlines: Feed The Google weblog: Feed (always cool know leanr of the latest new features in Google..) Dilbert: Feed Garfield: Feed…
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Geeky lectures - part III
In the ongoing geeky lectures saga, Dumky says: I have aggregated a bunch of similar links a couple of weeks back. http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000099.html
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More geeky streaming lectures
After I posted about the NerdTV , another gem occurred on my path. In a comment to that post, Michael Favro wrote: “Then you'll love the Multi-University/Research Laboratory Seminar Series at…
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Can we have this for the PDC as well?
I am all-over- this . Yes folks, you can see and hear all the Teched 2003 sessions. Yes. see and hear! Notice that every session on that page has two links. The lower one is to merely download the PPT file, but the…
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Cool debugging tool of the day: Developer Playground
My friend Jonas Blunck , author of the most excellent ieHTTPHeaders and ComTrace , dropped me a line a couple of days ago, to let me know he's dropped a new development tool -- Developer Playground . This is yet another…
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The ultimate connection string reference
This is the most complete reference of any connection string you'll ever need: http://www.connectionstrings.com/