Bookmarks added by del.icio.us user jmanning between February 19, 2006 and February 25, 2006

• Added February 19, 2006
  • Fredrik Normén’s blog – NSQUARED2 –
    Another route for getting your own additional properties into your asp.net 2.0 membership info
    Tagged as: asp.net
  • MSSQL: Create Table reference –
    handing to keep this link around since I’m used to Oracle’s syntax instead
    Tagged as: sql
  • Extending a MembershipUser –
    nice post about extending the asp.net 2.0 membership with a hierarchy-like set of roles
    Tagged as: asp.net
• Added February 21, 2006
  • CSharpFriends.com – csharp and asp.net : code_highlighter –
    The code colorizer that sucks the least (of the ones I’ve played with so far) with generics
    Tagged as: .net C#
  • Wintellect.PowerCollections –
    API docs for the wonderful Power Collections project
    Tagged as: .net C#

Bookmarks added by del.icio.us user jmanning between February 12, 2006 and February 18, 2006

• Added February 14, 2006
  • ASP.NET Web: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Site –
    Nice list of asp.net 2.0 tutorials
    Tagged as: .net asp.net microsoft
• Added February 15, 2006
  • Angel Saenz-Badillos : Using Sql Server 2005 Snapshot isolation level with ado.net 2.0 –
    The 2 steps necessary to start using the "snapshot" isolation level (serializable without the perf hit)
    Tagged as: SqlServer
  • NCSmartLink.org – Real-Time Traffic Cameras –
    Triangle-area traffic cameras – very useful for figuring out a route to take somewhere!
    Tagged as: local
• Added February 16, 2006
  • Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern –
    Martin’s article on IoC – worth a read if you haven’t already
    Tagged as: design patterns programming
  • MSBuild Reference –
    main reference page for MSBuild
    Tagged as: .net VisualStudio
  • MSBuild –
    main doc page for MSBuild
    Tagged as: .net VisualStudio

Bookmarks added by del.icio.us user jmanning between February 5, 2006 and February 11, 2006

• Added February 8, 2006
  • Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables in VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 –
    Great post by ScottGu for making strongly typed data objects in VS2005
    Tagged as: .NET C# asp.net
• Added February 9, 2006
  • Using Snapshot Isolation in SQL Server 2005 –
    If you miss the "readers don’t block writers, writers don’t block readers" of Oracle, it’s finally here with SQL 2K5! This page gives you the details on how it works, but it’s very much the same kind of thing as the MultiVersioning in Oracle.
    Tagged as: .NET microsoft sql tech
• Added February 10, 2006
  • Notes for the January 2006 tech preview of the Atlas project (AJAX on ASP.NET 2.0, basically) –

    Tagged as: .NET C#

Bookmarks added by del.icio.us user jmanning between January 29, 2006 and February 4, 2006

• Added February 1, 2006
  • Blog Advertising Programs A-Z | Performancing.com –
    Various adsense-like programs out there.
    Tagged as: blogs
• Added February 4, 2006
  • DirectShowNet library –
    Hate that DirectShow doesn’t have a managed interface by default? Here’s a nice sourceforge project to bridge that gap!
    Tagged as: .NET C# programming video

Bookmarks added by del.icio.us user jmanning between January 22, 2006 and January 28, 2006

• Added January 24, 2006
  • Weblog Tools Collection » WP Plugin: Top 10 posts and Views per post –
    Cool wordpress plugin to display your "best content"
    Tagged as: wordpress
  • Fiendish Sudoku –
    Nice Sudoku site – I really like the Pencilmarks as an optional feature
    Tagged as: games sudoku

Bookmarks added by del.icio.us user jmanning between January 15, 2006 and January 21, 2006

• Added January 15, 2006
  • James Manning » refinance of a home equity loan? –
    My question for whether refinance of a home equity loan makes sense – I want to come back to it later
    Tagged as: HomeEquity
  • James Manning » what’s important in a home equity line of credit? –
    Question about which things are important in the consideration of a home equity line of credit
    Tagged as: HomeEquity
• Added January 16, 2006
  • What You Should Know About Home Equity Lines of Credit –
    Nice quick overview page from the Federal Reserve. Worth a read by anyone considering a home equity line of credit, IMHO
    Tagged as: HomeEquity

Bookmarks added by del.icio.us user jmanning between January 8, 2006 and January 14, 2006

• Added January 10, 2006
  • Home equity: Loan vs. Line of Credit –
    Start of a wizard app that tries to recommend whether a one-time loan or a revolving line of credit is better for your needs.
    Tagged as: HomeEquity mortgage
• Added January 12, 2006
  • Lottery Nation [Fool.com: Commentary] January 11, 2006 –
    Since we’re getting a lottery here in North Carolina (what many, myself included, consider "a tax on people bad at math"), I just wanted to post at least one good commentary on what it’s idiotic to play.
    Tagged as: misc

Bookmarks added by del.icio.us user jmanning between January 1, 2006 and January 7, 2006

• Added January 1, 2006
  • It’s a moral imperative » converting a bunch of files to wmv in an automated fashion –
    Brain dump of the steps I went through to figure out the right way to mass-encode the videos coming off my camcorder
    Tagged as: tech video
  • Things broken in the WordPress 2.0 release –
    On second thought, I think I’ll be skipping the 2.0 upgrade, at least for now. The fact that scripts to downgrade back to 1.5 have been written by multiple authors and people that have upgraded are suffering immensely isn’t very inspiring. Hopefully 2.0
    Tagged as: web2.0 wordpress
  • WordPress Development Blog › WordPress 2 –
    For those considering (like me) an upgrade from WordPress 1.5.x to WordPress 2, here’s the blog post with the details on the reasons to upgrade. I still haven’t decided yet (since I now post with Semagic), but it’s an interesting list nonetheless.
    Tagged as: web2.0 wordpress
  • C# From a Java Developer’s Perspective –
    Dare (of RSS Bandit fame, among other things) posted a nice comparison of programming in C# vs. Java – a must-read for anyone that knows one and is considering learning the other (generally something that can be done in a day or so)
    Tagged as: C# java
  • TechCrunch » Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without –
    Great list of companies (well, sites more importantly) that can be very valuable as resources in trying to keep up with both the blogosphere and society in general.
    Tagged as: tech web2.0
• Added January 2, 2006
  • How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb? –
    A good explanation (especially to people outside Microsoft) of why Microsoft products don’t implement every possible feature, especially the ones that people just know would be a simple change.
    Tagged as: blogs microsoft programming
  • Incessant Ramblings: The anatomy of a bug –
    A great explanation of the handling of a bug, especially late in the product development cycle. There are lots of trade-offs involved, and this post helps explain a few of them.
    Tagged as: microsoft programming
  • Calculators — Bankrate.com –
    Great collection of calculators (especially mortgage calculators) available at bankrate.com
    Tagged as: finance mortgage
  • The Mortgage Professor –
    While I feel my own pages on mortgage advice are useful, this is another kind of site, similar in intent, to help educate people on mortgages.
    Tagged as: finance mortgage
• Added January 3, 2006
  • Nice description of "third cousin twice removed" and similar cousin relationships –
    I was going to do a blog post about how siblings are just "0th cousins" and how most family can be thought of as a (n.m) cousinhood, but someone already beat me to it.
    Tagged as: misc
  • Visual Studio Magazine –
    Online version of Visual Studio magazine
    Tagged as: VisualStudio microsoft programming
• Added January 4, 2006
  • Earthling – EarthLink’s blog: How To Be At Least Ten Percent More Productive –
    Nice post about some links and efforts to try and improve productivity in the coming year
    Tagged as: blogs lifehacks tech
  • Convert code into HTML with syntax coloring –
    Page that adds the necessary html to colorize some code. Works for multiple languages, but I use it for C#
    Tagged as: C# programming
  • Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide –
    Nice site with a centralized listing of lots of "life hacks" – little things that each improve your productivity each day!
    Tagged as: blogs gtd lifehacks tech
• Added January 5, 2006
  • Tell us what you think about Vista –
    The page to give your feedback about the Vista beta when you get a chance to play with it!
    Tagged as: microsoft
• Added January 6, 2006
  • Random tough-guy (Vin, Chuck, Mr. T) facts –
    Simiar to chucknorrisfacts.com, it’s simiarly silly "facts" about favorite tough guys
    Tagged as: humor
  • Chuck Norris Facts –
    Hilarious – simply hilarious! Especially if you’re already punch-drunk tired, this is pure classic.
    Tagged as: humor

Bookmarks added by del.icio.us user jmanning between December 30, 2005 and January 5, 2006

• Added December 30, 2005
  • CodeTranslator: Free Code Translation From VB.NET <-> C# –
    Really nicely done translator – make sure to check out the one in SharpDevelop if you can too.
    Tagged as: C#
• Added December 31, 2005
  • Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : Super Tooltips –
    An idea I had for Orcas is already apparently implemented in Office 12 – that’s great news for me, as it means it’s far more likely to have existing tool support and it’ll be far easier for us to implement in VS in Orcas or Orcas+1
    Tagged as: tech
  • SharpDevelop changes license to LGPL –
    This should help foster a hopefully huge set of addins
    Tagged as: C# SharpDevelop
• Added January 1, 2006
  • It’s a moral imperative » converting a bunch of files to wmv in an automated fashion –
    Brain dump of the steps I went through to figure out the right way to mass-encode the videos coming off my camcorder
    Tagged as: tech video
  • Things broken in the WordPress 2.0 release –
    On second thought, I think I’ll be skipping the 2.0 upgrade, at least for now. The fact that scripts to downgrade back to 1.5 have been written by multiple authors and people that have upgraded are suffering immensely isn’t very inspiring. Hopefully 2.0
    Tagged as: web2.0 wordpress
  • WordPress Development Blog › WordPress 2 –
    For those considering (like me) an upgrade from WordPress 1.5.x to WordPress 2, here’s the blog post with the details on the reasons to upgrade. I still haven’t decided yet (since I now post with Semagic), but it’s an interesting list nonetheless.
    Tagged as: web2.0 wordpress
  • C# From a Java Developer’s Perspective –
    Dare (of RSS Bandit fame, among other things) posted a nice comparison of programming in C# vs. Java – a must-read for anyone that knows one and is considering learning the other (generally something that can be done in a day or so)
    Tagged as: C# java
  • TechCrunch » Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without –
    Great list of companies (well, sites more importantly) that can be very valuable as resources in trying to keep up with both the blogosphere and society in general.
    Tagged as: tech web2.0
• Added January 2, 2006
  • How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb? –
    A good explanation (especially to people outside Microsoft) of why Microsoft products don’t implement every possible feature, especially the ones that people just know would be a simple change.
    Tagged as: blogs microsoft programming
  • Incessant Ramblings: The anatomy of a bug –
    A great explanation of the handling of a bug, especially late in the product development cycle. There are lots of trade-offs involved, and this post helps explain a few of them.
    Tagged as: microsoft programming
  • Calculators — Bankrate.com –
    Great collection of calculators (especially mortgage calculators) available at bankrate.com
    Tagged as: finance mortgage
  • The Mortgage Professor –
    While I feel my own pages on mortgage advice are useful, this is another kind of site, similar in intent, to help educate people on mortgages.
    Tagged as: finance mortgage
• Added January 3, 2006
  • Nice description of "third cousin twice removed" and similar cousin relationships –
    I was going to do a blog post about how siblings are just "0th cousins" and how most family can be thought of as a (n.m) cousinhood, but someone already beat me to it.
    Tagged as: misc
  • Visual Studio Magazine –
    Online version of Visual Studio magazine
    Tagged as: VisualStudio microsoft programming
• Added January 4, 2006
  • Earthling – EarthLink’s blog: How To Be At Least Ten Percent More Productive –
    Nice post about some links and efforts to try and improve productivity in the coming year
    Tagged as: blogs lifehacks tech
  • Convert code into HTML with syntax coloring –
    Page that adds the necessary html to colorize some code. Works for multiple languages, but I use it for C#
    Tagged as: C# programming
  • Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide –
    Nice site with a centralized listing of lots of "life hacks" – little things that each improve your productivity each day!
    Tagged as: blogs gtd lifehacks tech