Posted by Miguel Moreno on 18th November, 2004
While doing research on cities and neighborhoods to live in before making my decision to move to the Seattle/Puget Sound area, I visited many sites that help you with the weather conditions, traffic problems, school statistics and much more. But there is one site that really stood out above the rest, giving a complete report on a certain city or neighborhood including, demographics, crime, housing, family facts, education, economy, health and climate. It is free and you can use it to find out how your neighborhood ranks or to compare it with another one. You can even define your ideal place to live in by indicating the importance to...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 18th November, 2004
On occasions, I come across a software tool that merits mentioning and recommending. I have used in the past several well-known screen capturing/recording tools to do this job, but I have to say I am quite impressed with the ease-of-use and set of features of BBFlashback. It enables yu to capture the screen at different resolutions, compress at different compression modes in several popular formats such as .wmv, .avi, .swf and standalone .exe. The files are much smaller than with other tools. It is not cheap, but you get what you pay for. If you need to do software demonstrations, presentations, tutorials or training, this is a good tool...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 17th November, 2004
I have had the tremendous luck of growing up in Europe and at age 17 be fully fluent in four languages, and that without making the slightest effort. As a kid, you seem to learn everything with no effort at all. Older now, I have always wanted to learn more languages, or at least able to understand the basics, but realize it is not as easy as it used to be. I have bought books, tapes and even looked for foreign language clubs. Many books and tapes later I discovered that determination is the key ingredient. Recently I stumbled upon this article from a linguophile who has some interesting...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 9th November, 2004
I recently got Object oriented Programming with Actionscript from Branden Hall and Samuel Wan and highly recommend it. This is a must have for any Flash developer that wants to get serious with OOP and reusable code in Actionscript. Worth every penny! Also here are some designer related books: MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer by Hillman Curtis Publisher: New Riders Fresh styles for designers by Curt Cloninger Publisher: New...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 8th November, 2004
GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. Ever since Google started to offer users a GMail e-mail account, which includes storage space of a 1 Gigabytes, you have had plenty of storage space but not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you can easily copy files to your GMail account and retrieve them again using Windows Explorer. When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it generates an e-mail and posts it to your account. [button link=”http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 8th November, 2004
Excellent article on writing quality code. The author describes simple and straightforward rules to prove false the presumption that it takes teams to develop quality software. Read the article, follow the rules and you'll be inspired to write code that will earn you the full respect of your colleagues as a solid coder. [button link=”http://www.codeproject.com/gen/work/standaloneprogrammer3.asp” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 6th November, 2004
At least for today… AltaVista's expanded multimedia index catalogs more than 540 million comprehensive, high-quality image files and approximately 11 million video and audio files, including popular formats such as MP3 and MPEG. Included in the index are hundreds of millions of files published in countries around the world, enhancing the user experience across AltaVista's U.S. and international Web sites. Additionally, AltaVista added a new refinement feature to its image index that enables consumers to customize searches by dimension. [button link=”http://www.altavista.com/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 31st October, 2004
Dive head first into an in-depth, hands-on learning environment with the Microsoft ASP.NET Webcast Series. Choose from over 40 hours of free technical training with valuable advice from ASP.NET experts like Fritz Onion of PluralSight, Rob Howard, Carl Franklin and Ken Getz (via csharpfriends). [button link=”http://www.aspnetwebcasts.com/default.aspx” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 5th October, 2004
If you have seen aerial photos, maybe of your neighborhood, you know how difficult it is to find a street or even a house. Multimap is currently only available for England, but the idea is quite clever and I wonder why it took us so long to make aerial/mapping so much easier and actually useful. Aerial photos. Maps. Overlaid. Fantastic. (via metafilter) read more:...
