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Links for 2008-07-04 [del.icio.us]

protected virtual void jaysonBlog — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Best Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report...(read more)

A brief intro to Gallery Server Pro

Dave Burke — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:25:36 GMT

I've blogged very little about my photo gallery, Kevin Martin's Open Source application Gallery Server Pro. It's very impressive, full featured and rock solid. It's a media gallery and supports much more than photos, but that's all I plan to do with it for now. I really like how it handles .ZIPs of multiple images on upload and automatically extracts and processes the individual images. Uploading images is extremely easy and fast. I also love the options you have with the image...(read more)

BE.NET Sueetie: 1.4 ASPNET Membership Provider Upgrade Tip

Dave Burke — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:29:24 GMT

This is the first appearance of the term "sueet" in the DBVT lexicon. Think "Sweet" with a "u." I'll fill you in on all of that over time, but for now please bear with me and regard "Sueeties" as equivalent to CS Nuglets. My first BlogEngine.NET Sueetie has to do with upgrading membership from BE 1.3 to BE 1.4. I wanted to upgrade my laptop copy of BE.NET before taking it to Beach Week tomorrow and in the process encountered some membership provider issues...(read more)

Self-Evangelism

Keyvan Nayyeri — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:42:20 GMT

At first glance the title of this post may be a little confusing for you but no worries since I’m going to talk about this term and describe it here! In the past two years and since a short while before starting my military service to now I’ve been trying to keep my skills up and train with them to avoid the disaster that has happened to many other young men in the country after the service. Beside studying and writing, I also defined some small and big projects for myself, started them, developed...(read more)

Car in ditch extraction and the social support network

Dave Burke — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:12:31 GMT

I read and talk about online social networks, but when you're in a difficult situation, like, say, when you drive your car into a ditch at 10 o'clock at night, you appreciate the wonder of real world social support networks. Tonight my little girl and I were watching a DVD when we heard the local fireworks. In less than 60 seconds we were in our Honda Odyssey and on the chase. I didn't stop to grab my cell phone or even put on shoes. Fortunately my little girl had the good sense to slip...(read more)

Links for 2008-07-02 [del.icio.us]

protected virtual void jaysonBlog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas - 10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas - TIME...(read more)

Access points to Stylin screen pics

Dave Burke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:44:26 GMT

In case there was anyone out there other than me who enjoys scrolling through the Stylin screen pics and wants another way to quickly get there, I added a second access point to them tonight. (I blogged about the BE.NET particulars of the Stylin screen display list here. ) I'm trying to avoid adding a main menubar link as I had on my DBVT2007 blog, so in addition to the category link which displays the screen pics I added a link in each of the Stylin posts. I changed the CodeSmith template I...(read more)

Stylin: The Coffee Cafe

Dave Burke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:15:37 GMT

This site grows on you. Well-done flash slider center area. You see those popping up everywhere. I need to get me one of them! Link to The Coffee Cafe | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Clik Development

Dave Burke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:58:23 GMT

Colorful. Links at bottom take you anywhere you wanna go. Check out the banner accordion effect. Link to Clik Development | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Executive Warfare

Dave Burke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:53:44 GMT

Masculine, clean, creative and stays on message. Link to Executive Warfare | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Harvest Eating

Dave Burke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:50:29 GMT

Another good looking site going with lighter colors. Smartly placed instructional video at right, along with blog excerpts and links to other site material. Link to Harvest Eating | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Mail Chimp

Dave Burke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:46:59 GMT

Effective use of lighter colors, with well-placed instructional video and screenshots as design elements. Mail Chimp is also a great name. Link to Mail Chimp | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Stylin: Design Logix

Dave Burke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:42:34 GMT

Full 360-degree fan-out pattern in banner with unique logo. Interesting horizontal scrolling control in the banner. Link to Design Logix | View all Stylin Sites...(read more)

Busy Time for Me

nb development — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:59:59 GMT

Well it’s all hands to the pumps this month, I’ve started soo many free projects that I’m hopefully gonna get done soon. Then a load of paid theming work, so you’ll have to excuse me for not getting athena done. Just an FYI. Themes I’ll be doing: Reperion Bink (already done, just waiting on developer to finish converting the html template to a cs theme) Extended64 Liveside.net Free projects: CSLive 2.0 (beta 1 expected end of the week) Athena 2008 AddThis controls (released today) Ohter Projects...(read more)

Everyman Links for July 1, 2008

Dave Burke — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:42:00 GMT

Sound investment planning for the Apocalypse. Not a lot from IT Conversations piques my interest these days, but I'll tune in to most anything about the Singularity. This enjoyable presentation by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel from the 2007 Singularity Summit titled "Financial Markets and the Singularity" suggests that we might as well invest aggressively in potential paradigm-changing technologies, cause if the singularity goes bad we're all in the crapper anyway. Here's an...(read more)

Spreading the word: first Hartford Code Camp Call for Speakers

Dave Burke — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:48:30 GMT

I received this email from my pal SB Chatterjee so I'm doing my part to spread the word for the first Hartford, Connecticut Code Camp Call for Speakers. I'm not sure yet if I can make it, since I'm not seeing anything about a Saturday Night Geek Party... ----------------------- From: CTDOTNET [mailto: ctdotnet@gmail.com ] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:05 PM To: CTDOTNET Subject: A request for the First Hartford CodeCamp (Aug 16 Sat) - Call For Speakers Folks - Please distribute the notice...(read more)

First Approach to an ASP.NET Task Scheduler

Dave Burke — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:23:23 GMT

The subtitle of this post is "Keeping up with Keyvan." The guy is definitely a high octane .NET developer. I told him how excited I was about his work on an ASP.NET Task Scheduler and as a result have been made an honorary participant in The Abidar Project (Keyvan comes up with the best names.) You'll find Abidar in its inception phase on CodePlex. So that it's clear, this is Keyvan's project, and I am along for the ride. As you might infer from my Services page, I'm working...(read more)

I’m now Nick Brown BSc MBCS

nb development — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:08:34 GMT

Just finished my final year of my BSc in Computing, passed with a 2:1, which is good considering I did really badly in my final exams. Anyhow, with this result, I can finally start looking for a job full time. FYI MBCS = Member of the British Computing Society....(read more)

Abidar – ASP.NET Task Scheduling Framework

Keyvan Nayyeri — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:54:04 GMT

Recently I published a couple of blog posts about building a simple ASP.NET task scheduling system in a practical way and with a basic example ( Part 1 and Part 2 ). Per comments and feedback from some visitors, especially a dear and respectful friend like Dave Burke , I also promised to publish my general framework for task scheduling as a part of an open source project. Today I found some free time to start this and created a CodePlex repository for the project. Finding an appropriate name for...(read more)

Everyman Links for June 29, 2008

Dave Burke — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:12:49 GMT

Tipping Point for e-Books? Princeton University will be publishing Kindle-editions of its textbooks this fall, joining Yale, Oxford and Berkeley in supporting the Kindle. That's great news for trees everywhere. My interest in the Kindle has ticked-up lately. I very much appreciated Seth Goldin's recent review of the Kindle. Interesting observations include, "It's for women and women are buying it." "It changes what it means to buy and own a book." "The Kindle...(read more)

Nordic Track Book Club Review: Here Comes Everybody

Dave Burke — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:38:42 GMT

I knew I'd enjoy Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky and I wasn't disappointed. Shirky writes about the dynamics of groups and collaborative productivity in an environment where online communities can now so easily be created and maintained. A lot of takeaways here that apply to Open Source development, and I will be reading this book again. Many more excerpts where these came from. 5 out of 5 stars. ------------------------- p.16 Almost everyone...(read more)

nb development gets updated to CS 2008 SP1

nb development — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:53:53 GMT

Just finished updating nb development to CS 2008 SP1. Took me about 2 hours to figure out why the site wasn’t working after the initial upgrade. Lol. Note to self, remember to run the upgrade SQL Script. lol. Anyhow, you may of noticed in the new look athena theme, complete with header images, which change both randomly, and with your mouse movements. Click on the << paint pot to get the athena bar and then look at the header images. The script that generates them takes...(read more)

Nayyeri.NET Turns Three

Keyvan Nayyeri — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:18:58 GMT

Today, 28th June 2008, is the third birthday anniversary of my site and blog, Nayyeri.NET! It’s hard to believe that three years are passed since the day that I first installed an early Beta version of the Community Server 1.1 on this site and got in many of troubles. I can remember that I went to my hoster’s office and we cooperated to tackle many issues down! From that day to know I’ve been actively blogging on this site with no stop point and without going lower than 20 posts per months...(read more)

Bill Gates - Looking Back, Moving Ahead!

Keyvan Nayyeri — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:17:59 GMT

Well, it’s not easy to not write about Bill Gates’ transition today! If you’re one of those a few guys who don’t know, today Bill Gates transits its main role at Microsoft to a Chairman role in order to spend more time on Bill and Melinda Gates foundation! This somehow means that Bill Gates is leaving its active role at Microsoft, the role that we all knew him for it! So in a few hours, we’re going to say goodbye to the most famous man on the software world, or even in the whole computer world! For...(read more)

Everyman Links for June 27, 2008

Dave Burke — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:04:58 GMT

Keyvan Nayyeri is one hot Iranian stud! I mean that in a purely non-sexual way, of course. This young man of 23 has been impressing me for a while now and he keeps pouring on the .NET gas, which is a pretty good analogy to describe a hot .NET developer from Iran, I suppose. Keyvan was instrumental in the development of BlogML, spearheaded the two Community Server MVP Module Packs, is working on his centralized spam prevention system called Waegis, authored a Wrox book on Visual Studio 2008 Extensibility...(read more)