Here's a great little free util that Omar has found.  I used to move the plugin's manually to speed things up, but PDF Speedup makes me NOT DREAD opening a PDF anymore. BTW, does Acrobat 6 suck LOTS more than Acrobat 5? I HATE the new Find Dialog. I have previously written about how darn slow Adobe Acrobat 6 is when launching. I...

There's a lot of info out there on how to cobble together NUnit Unit Testing of ASP.NET Pages and assorted goo. NUnitASP is a nice class library to facilitate this kind of testing, but it doesn't solve a few problems: Do you have/want a Web Server on your Test/Build machine? How do you get your Test Pages and such over to the Web Server? Just...

With all this talk of shiny Avalon, I'm surprised that more people aren't mentioning "text-mode" applications.  I assume we all realize that there are literally millions of Windows machines from 95 to XP that exist only to allow more than one Telnet/ProcommPlus/Terminal window at a time, so end-users can interact with remote systems. Point...

With all this talk of shiny Avalon, I'm surprised that more people aren't mentioning "text-mode" applications.  I assume we all realize that there are literally millions of Windows machines from 95 to XP that exist only to allow more than one Telnet/ProcommPlus/Terminal window at a time, so end-users can interact with remote systems. Point...

Here's a darned useful thing, the equivalent of a KB Serach for CSS and JavaScript bugs. This is very useful: QuirksMode Bug Reports, "entirely dedicated to finding, mending, and publishing CSS and JavaScript browser bugs." You can search by browser or by keyword, or just go to that page to see the last seven reported bugs. [WebStandards]  

It just kills me - literally tears me up inside - to watch people with both NUnitGui and Visual Studio.NET open who painfully switch back and forth, opening DLLs, attaching to processes, and generally cobbling together a sense of TDD. Tell me you wouldn't rather right-click and say "Run Test" or "Test With...Debugger." You may have used...

It just kills me - literally tears me up inside - to watch people with both NUnitGui and Visual Studio.NET open who painfully switch back and forth, opening DLLs, attaching to processes, and generally cobbling together a sense of TDD. Tell me you wouldn't rather right-click and say "Run Test" or "Test With...Debugger." You may have used...

I'm beating the Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Festivus rush, and posting my wants-list now. :) This is also known as my stuff-I-may-buy-if-you-don't-give-it-to-me list. Enjoy. In no particular order. Games Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 - I'm loving the squad-based shooters Prince of Persia 2 - I'm about 85% through the first one, and it's...

"The Internet combines the excitement of typing with the reliability of anonymous hearsay."     -America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

"The Internet combines the excitement of typing with the reliability of anonymous hearsay."     -America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

I am subscribed to 168 RSS feeds.  I'm obviously creating work for myself, which may not be a good idea. Having only a 4k stack myself, I can't hold a lot of URLs in my head. Additionally, sometimes I just want to visit a website myself. Here's the websites that I actually launch a browser for every morning (I have a macro in Slickrun...

I am subscribed to 168 RSS feeds.  I'm obviously creating work for myself, which may not be a good idea. Having only a 4k stack myself, I can't hold a lot of URLs in my head. Additionally, sometimes I just want to visit a website myself. Here's the websites that I actually launch a browser for every morning (I have a macro in Slickrun...

Just a small reminder for myself and others that you can set the title of the Command Prompt Window with the "TITLE" Batch Command. Since I'm building three different branches of our SDK during dev, it's nice to differentiate all these windows on all these monitors. For example here's "mybuild.bat" TITLE Building VoyagerFramework 2.0 set...

Just a small reminder for myself and others that you can set the title of the Command Prompt Window with the "TITLE" Batch Command. Since I'm building three different branches of our SDK during dev, it's nice to differentiate all these windows on all these monitors. For example here's "mybuild.bat" TITLE Building VoyagerFramework 2.0 set...

Believe it or not, I'm not a big gamer.  By 'not a big gamer' I mean, I didn't take a week off work to play GTA: San Andreas as a co-worker did.  By 'not a big gamer' I mean, I lost interest with Ninja Gaiden because it was too freaking hard. I've got about 2 hours patience with a game, but I stop when I start to hurt, be it hands,...