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Posted by on 17th September, 2005

Cheat Sheets for Developers

Cheat Sheets for Developers

Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, that's why I like cheat sheets. They are quick references that feature the most commonly forgotten things on a specific topic. You can print them out and hang them on your wall, or just keep them handy in your bookmarks for quick reference. Here are over 30 cheatsheets that developers might find useful… [button link=”http://www.petefreitag.com/item/455.cfm” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 29th July, 2005

Large Accent Audio Database

Large Accent Audio Database

Everyone who speaks a language, speaks it with an accent. A particular accent essentially reflects a person's linguistic background. When people listen to someone speak with a different accent from their own, they notice the difference, and they may even make certain biased social judgments about the speaker. The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. [button link=”http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 7th July, 2005

Google Maps transparency

Google Maps transparency

Google Maps (maps.google.com) is, without question, a very cool tool and very cleverly designed. Now that Google has recently added a feature that allows you to view a satellite view of the area in focus and exposed the application's API, we are seeing some impressive implementations of visualizing maps. This particular one, allows you to superset a transparent "streetmap" over the satellite view. [button link=”http://www.kokogiak.com/gmaps-transparencies.html” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 30th June, 2005

AJAX in ASP.NET 2.0 or not?

AJAX in ASP.NET 2.0 or not?

No, not Ajax, Amsterdam football team. The other Ajax… the Asynchroneous Javascript and XML kind. A recent article by CNet hints that Microsoft is building software, code-named Atlas, that provides developers with tools designed to ease creation of AJAX-style applications. "Developers can use the Atlas software through Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 development tools and the Web development framework ASP.Net 2.0, both of which are expected to ship in November." But….then there is this comment from the folks at MSDN product feedback in reply to a suggestion of officially adding AJAX support to Whidbey/ASP.NET 2.0: "Thank you for your suggestion. AJAX is definitively gaining attention and is something that the team has given thought to. Considering where we are in the product cycle, I hope you'll understand that it wouldn't be possible to do this in Whidbey but we'll evaluate the suggestion for a future release" So, what is it? Will the AJAX support be a separate piece that somehow will still work with Visual Studio 2005 to create ASP.NET...

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Posted by on 19th June, 2005

Free Tech Books

Free Tech Books

This site lists free online computer science books and lecture notes, all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet. All the books listed on this site are available for free, as they are hosted on websites that belong to the authors or the publishers. These authors publish their books for free to give you a chance to review their books, to get as much good information distributed as possible. So, if you like what you read online, you can always support the authors by buying the paperback at your local or online bookstores. [button link=”http://www.FreeTechBooks.com” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 15th June, 2005

The Ultimate Google Guide

The Ultimate Google Guide

On occasions I have to look for a particular filetype or need to filter out search results from my searches with Google and end up probably missing what I was looking for. I may not be writing my search query specific enough. Of course I know there are some more operators besides the common ones, but didn't know exactly which. Nancy Blachman from The Google Guide has written a cheatsheet with the advanced operators to improve accuracy and speed in your searches with Google. A nice site overall with many other Google features… [button link=”http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 7th June, 2005

Aviation oops

Aviation oops

I came across this large image gallery of general transportation mishaps. Mostly military and commercial aviation. Some impressive, some very dumb…many painful. Like popcorn, I am sure you you won't be able to see just one image and won't stop till you've seen them all, but well worth. [button link=”http://www.micom.net/oops” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 3rd June, 2005

Personalized Google has competition

Personalized Google has competition

Personalized Google, a page with the same ol' search box, but with the addition of your personal selection of news stories (XML feeds). Although Microsoft is light years ahead with its implementation of my.msn.comwhich offers similar, but more complex features, it seems that they may want to go toe-to-toe with Google on this one. I don't recall exactly how, but I stumbled upon this experimental search/XML feed news aggregator by Microsoft that uses Asynchroneous Javascript to refresh, collapse, expand and move the headline around. It is the same technology used by Google in maps.google.com that has proven quite efficient and robust and the site sure does look like it will do the same as Personalized Google…search and aggregate news feeds. You can fully customize the page with your own feeds. Try it and I think you'll be impressed. Again, it is sort of in an experimental phase and I do not know what Microsoft is planning for it, but it certainly looks promising…and so does the fight that is...

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Posted by on 22nd May, 2005

Air travel

Air travel

It has been a while since I last posted and have been doing a lot of traveling lately, but I think the travel will be a bit less in the coming months. In any case, I flew a couple of long flights to Amsterdam and Sydney and was lucky enough to receive decent to excellent seats. Seattle – Sydney alone was more than 18 hours all together and a good seat makes a big difference. Yep, even in coach class there are some good seats. If you want to find out which seats to ask for and which to avoid at all cost, check out SeatGuru.com. They also have a mobile version for your mobile device so you can see what seat you are getting when they assign you seat 16C at the counter. [button link=”http://www.seatguru.com” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 2nd April, 2005

Finally Settled In

Finally Settled In

So, I have finally unpacked, started my job, sold my former house and settled in (somewhat). I am very excited about where I am at; I love the neighborhood, weather and environment. The weather has been spectacular, all though I have been told this winter has been an extraordinary pleasant winter. The mountain landscape is breathtaking and the drive to work relatively short and scenic. I am very happy with my new job, the truly excellent team I am working with and the projects scheduled for this year. The city of Snoqualmie is famous for its falls, which is only about 1 mile from my new house. The town is about 20 miles from bellevue and 25 miles from Seattle. Nicely located: far away from downtown, but still nearby should I need a downtown. Anyways, this post is just to announce that I survived the moving process and am recovering nicely. I will be able to answer my emails again and will be working on some new experiments pretty...

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