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(tags: mustread eXtremeProgramming agile development programming google)

magic eye maze generator
(tags: forBridie)

Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 in standalone mode(IE7)
running ie7 and ie 6 simultaneously - would have been nice to know this before I installed ie7
(tags: ie7 Microsoft how-to)

The FREE SOFTWARE PORTAL
wikipedia portal for free software info
(tags: free wikipedia OpenSource [...]

Community Server - how to change the default site URL
apparently, changing the default site url is insufficient to change the behavior of CS with regards to the www subdomain - thatsetting needs to be altered in a config file and can’t be changed in the UI. Stupid.
(tags: communityserver Microsoft config reference)

super excellent xp tweaks
some [...]

Visio Guy: Create Visio Flowcharts Programmatically
Call shpConn.CellsU(”BeginX”). _GlueTo(shpDec.CellsU(”Connections.X2″))
(tags: visio microsoft vba reference)

Google Groups: microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
Don’t work, at least not for me.
How stupid is an installer tool builder that doesn’t include an option to start the installed app after installation?
(tags: windows stupid installer msi)

Using the Database - IP Address Lookup - Community Geotarget IP Addresses Project
Simple GET
That said, there is an easy HTTP oriented API to locate IP addresses and Geocode them.
(tags: geolocation ipaddress lookup reference API webservices maps tool)

Commented: xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - COMPLY
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa!
(tags: software humor xkcd comics)

An interesting perspective:

“…this new weird and programmer-unfriendly behavior of Firefox’s.” [emphasis mine]
I mean, I’ve never thought of behaving correctly with respect to the specification as “programmer-unfriendly” before. Dave mentions that Firefox “…implements permanent redirects without looping the server in…”, but I don’t even know what that means.
I know the issue Dave had was discussed [...]

Dave Winer:
This press release is the first I heard that the EFF (apparently) would like to speak for podcasters. Watch out for the EFF, they tend to sell us out for the tech industry, an industry that has major conflicts with people and organizations that create content. When asked to help us out with Google [...]

WMPA - Windows Media Player Announcer
Windows Media Player Announcer is an XChat-2 plug-in that allows announcement of the currently playing song in xchat. It also allows control of the player
(tags: irc development Tools plugin x-chat)

TNT1-150: Clustering Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000/2005
This session consists of a Windows Media presentation and the following demonstrations
(tags: sqlserver Microsoft windows reference how-to)