Ever since browsers started getting pretty good at remembering their sessions, I started to develop a bad habit. It’s not uncommon for me to have a lot of sites open in tabs across my various browsers, and sometimes they stay there for weeks at a time.
So once or twice a month, I’m going to start dumping the contents of my browser in a post here.
Why? I’m not turning this site into another linkblog. I’m hoping it might be fairly interesting or amusing reading. The links are often things I mean to write about, but which don’t merit a post of their own. It’s also an insight into what I’m currently working on or reading about, as well as giving me an excuse to clear out the tabs on a periodic basis.
October’s list is comes courtesy of my Windows 7 upgrade – gotta do something with these open tabs before ripping the drive out!
So without further ado lets go.
October’s Browser Tabs
First off a few topics from stackoverflow.com. Supporting a site which uses encrypted or hashed passwords is something I want to implement in a couple of apps when I get the time. Tips for developers building public web sites is a checklist of developer basics that I meant to read just in case any of my apps are missing any points, but haven’t found time for yet. Click to select entire row using jQuery is about what the title suggests – something I’m trying to find a reusable tidy solution for in a few databound grid based apps I’m involved with. I just refreshed this thread before closing the tab and it seems there’s been a few updates, handy! Finally on the stackoverflow.com front, a thread on IIS7 compression – lots of noise out there on IIS compression.
ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing is something I have a use for (not the MVC bit, but Subdomain routing). I just need to find the time to implement it where it’s needed. As a concept it’s something which seems incredibly handy when used right.
Input Director is an alternative to Synergy. Synergy doesn’t seem to be maintained too actively, and flaked out a little for me under Vista, so hopefully ID will work nicely under Windows 7.
WCSA - web.config security analyzer is a tool which does exactly what it sounds like it does.
The Announcement and signup page for Microsoft WebsiteSpark. An awesome initiative for small companies like mine.
Validating email addresses with regular expressions in Lotus Notes is something I wanted to do for a client a while back, except it was quite some time ago so I can’t remember *which* client. Hence why this link has sat in an open tab for a month.
The Google Sync announcement (and the download) was something I should have been more interested in as a Windows mobile and google user. The tabs have lasted many weeks in my open list while I’ve tried to work out why I wasn’t too interested.
The Project Triangle is a device I’m trying to work into a few pieces of documentation for new clients and projects. This is part of my ongoing thinking of ways to make fixed price projects work for small customers/projects (of which there is a larger post in the making).
New features in Domino Designer 8.5.1 – this is the last in a series of posts covering what’s new. Always useful to read other developer’s comments, rather than try and read through IBM’s literature. Bottom line: 8.5.1 is actually a good improvement and has the first actual shiny things for poor old Domino developers in quite some time.
DominoPDF tutorials – DominoPDF seems to be one of the top contenders for converting MS Office documents to PDF (as well as Notes data to PDF, however I found quite a few other free ways to do that side of things). The fact that it doesn’t need MS Office (however it does need Open Office) to be installed to do this is pretty impressive.
ScottGu's announcement of the latest Ajax preview and the Ajax minifier was pretty timely for me. I’d been putting off installing Java so I could use the YUI compressor for a few weeks, and was just about to bite the bullet when the Microsoft tool was released. Nice timing indeed. Also open is a post with some more detailed info on using the tool.
The minification / build line of thinking led me to the WebDeploymentTool – which I haven’t played with yet, and hadn’t heard much about at all.
Finally, a page containing a rather large collection of vegan straight-edge music.
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