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links for 2008-04-03

BLDGBLOG: Forgotten Architects Many of the buildings these architects produced were absolutely extraordinary – and, frankly, it seems impossible not to look at these images and judge 20th century Germany in light of the catastrophic stupidities that led to its murderous exile of the (tags: architecture naziism hoocaust art)

links for 2008-03-30

socialgraph-resources - Google Code (tags: code google social reference)

links for 2008-02-06

SQL Server development techniques and sql scripts. Author Nigel Rivett handy sql server scripts (tags: SQLServer tips commands)

links for 2008-02-05

Live Chat and Realtime Monitoring for your Website by SightMax (tags: communityserver etc work chat tool support) Community Server - Community Server Editor, Community Server Chat, Community Server Richtextbox, Community Server Web messenger, Community Server Live Support (tags: chat CommunityServer ETC work tools)

links for 2008-01-30

Reporting Service Bad Request Error 400 using specific ip breaks reporting service front end deploy (tags: microsoft SQLServer2005 ReportingServices iis6 problem fix) Enable Parent Paths Is Disabled by Default in IIS 6.0 this can cause a problem is ASP apps that use upwards relative paths ("../...") (tags: microsoft iis6 asp path problem fix)

links for 2008-01-20

Disable right click on images? | Gallery I've managed to disable right click for G2 (tags: wordpress gallery2 howto reference javascript right-click tcw)

links for 2008-01-05

gethuman 500 database from Paul English it's funny, but a lot of times i'd *rather* deal with an automated system. When you *need* a human, though.... (tags: human phone tree directories tools) The Challenges, Evolution, and Success Factors of the Enterprise Intranet some good info about corporate intranets. i'd like to see ...

links for 2008-01-04

How do you add RSS feeds to Home page? - Community Server pointers to some options for aggregating an rss feed on the CS home page (tags: work communityserver etc rss content)

links for 2008-01-03

"The Game of Questions" from _Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead_ (tags: funny games shakespeare play tom+stoppard) xkcd » Blog Archive » Ghost (tags: games fun xkcd words)

links for 2007-12-28

Blogarithms » Skype for Interviews - A How-To Video useful info about recording skype calls (tags: howto podcasting tools recording skype audio) Windows Live Dev | FeedSync Windows site for the feedsync spec (tags: development feed RSS syndication webservices Microsoft FeedSync) WordPress › Support » GPL Theme - Anvil interesting sounding wp theme (tags: wordpress themes php development ...

links for 2007-12-19

Feature: Lifehacker's 2007 Guide to Free Software and Webapps some cool stuff here (tags: free hacks reference shareware software tips toread utilities) A List Apart: Articles: Designing For Flow n web design, when we think about flow we usually think about “task flows” or “flow charts” but there’s another type of flow that we ...

links for 2007-12-17

XML Tools : DTD, XML schema and XML document conversion software tool : XML Utilities n an effort to help our Allora customers to deal with conversions between XMLSchemas and DTDS, as well generating XML Schemas and DTDs from XML documents, we developed some XML Utilities that you can use free ...

links for 2007-12-04

Using the Adsutil.vbs Administration Script (IIS 6.0) (tags: vbscript reference adsutil webserver iis6)

links for 2007-11-30

Using AutoRun with a USB Flash Drive (SamLogic CD-Menu Creator - Article) while this is an add for a paid piece of software, it has some pretty good information in it. (tags: usb autorun portability) matthias .NET Blog : Mindmanager IFilter If you are using Mindmanager X5 or the current version 6 then you ...

links for 2007-11-28

How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -- Facebook -- InformationWeek "Adding more users to a social network increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance." (tags: community socialweb corydoctorow attention web privacy facebook socialnetworks) habari - Google Code Habari represents a fresh start to the idea of blogging. (tags: ...

links for 2007-11-21

PapaScott — Corrupted UTF-8 characters with PHP and MySQL They had recent stable versions of everything, MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.1, using UTF-8 for everything, and they were getting corrupted accented characters saved in the database, junk with ‘Ã’s was coming out. (tags: encoding mysql php utf8) dBug # PHP version of ColdFusion’s cfdump. ...

links for 2007-11-20

Upside-Down-Ternet My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun. (tags: config funny geek hacks howto perl wireless xkcd technology server router)

Non-ambient findability

This: Reminded my of Bruce Sterling's 2006 ETech talk, which you can read here (I tried to find it on one of Bruce's properties but couldn't), and hear here. "I no longer hunt anxiously for my missing shoes in the morning. I just Google them."

Peter Kim, I just don’t get it, either

Peter Kim of Forrester reports on Twitter usage amongst US adults Our data shows that 6% of US online adults use Twitter regularly. (from Being Peter Kim: "I just don't get it." [i.e. Twitter]) That is patently insane. I suppose it depends on how you define "online adults," but ...

links for 2007-10-18

a shel of my former self: Comments I utterly reject the argument posited by some very smart people (like Chris Brogan) that the explosion of online video is to blame. With respect to those who have made this case, I have to shake my head in disbelief. If the popularity of ...

"Big" news today in the Microsoft SharePoint space - updated

Today Microsoft is announcing two strategic partnerships, with enterprise software company Atlassian and RSS solutions vendor NewsGator. (from Read/Write Web) I suppose this is pretty big news for Atlassian wiki customers, especially those that are using Microsoft SharePoint - single sign-on and cross-platform search can be pretty important ...

links for 2007-10-16

Ignoring .svn directories with grep | corey gilmore's blog ...find a bit of text in an unknown file that is buried deep in a tree of directories...grep is included.... While it's a great tool, it's also annoying to get a screen full of results from Subversion's .svn directories. (tags: grep linux cygwin ...

links for 2007-10-10

Fiscal Fitness: Eliminate Debt with 10 Successful Diet Principles | zen habits Recently I’ve been studying the habits of successful dieters — people who’ve lost 30 lbs. or more and kept it off. And in reading a recent Get Rich Slowly article, I realized that the same successful principles these people ...

links for 2007-10-09

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links for 2007-10-08

Interaction techniques that deviate from common GUI standards can create usability catastrophes that make applications impossible to use. important stuff, IMHO (tags: article design interesting software usability interface important!) terror of tinyurl The other problem with the tinyurl preview is that it a) necessitates an additional click and b) is useless for judging a ...

links for 2007-10-05

Jaffe Juice: 23 things every company should be monitoring... Here's a thread worth following and continuing. It deals with things every company should be monitoring (and resulting implications) (tags: business blogging internet marketing research branding)

links for 2007-10-04

Javascript Progress / Percentage Bar with CSS by WebAppers WebAppers have created a simple Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar which is inspired by Bare Naked App. Bare Naked App taught us how to display Percentage Bar with 2 images only by using CSS. And then I used a little ...

links for 2007-10-03

EXECUTE permission denied on object 'sp_sdidebug' ... after converting from VS 2003 to VS 2005 - ASP.NET Forums EXECUTE permission denied on object 'sp_sdidebug' depending on your error handling, this error may make it seem like your sql query isn't running. Not just when updating, but any time you have SQL Server debugging ...

links for 2007-09-28

StoneCypher notes about brace-inline notation in PHP this is why I love logs in IRC - gems like this become unfindable without. (tags: irc wp-mu php development reference tips)

You know that INXS video for "Mediate"? Turns out Bob Dylan did it first.

This just goes to show how out of touch with Rock history I am. Back when I watched videos, one of my favorites was the video to the INXS song Mediate. I liked INXS a lot at the time; their concert in Kansas City in 1988 remains one of ...