PC World - PC World Downloads - AM-DeadLink

PC World - PC World Downloads - AM-DeadLink

AM deadlink - if you still use favourites this deletes the ones that no longer work - if like me you use multiple machines in multiple locations may i suggest google toolbars favourites instead??

Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

Initially im intrigued, still working out what half of it is about though so writing on here to remind me to have another look...

Bits of it ive found useful are:

Link to validation sites - it will submit the page you are looking at to be validated so you can see what youve done wrong (again)
Resize to screen res's see what it looks like when its not in widescreen
clear cookies just for the page you want to clear cookies for
A ruler to measure bits!! surprisingly useful.


Web resources ive found are:


http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/05/10/Internet-Explorer-Developer-Toolbar-_2D00_-Get-It-Now_2100_.aspx

Mainly people moaning that it isnt as good as firefox, there may be something useful in this eventually...

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/070208.htm - 15 seconds is good - but i must read slow cause this took me more like a couple of minutes to read....

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerDevToolbar

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerDevToolbar

Quick License Manager - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com

Interactive Studios Quick Licence manager

How to handle licencing? Its the age old question - do you write a bit of code to handle it yourself, or do you farm it out to someone else? Heres an example of farmed out code that looks useful


Quick licence manager seems to tick all the boxes, it enables you to create computer bound licence keys - bound to the name of the computer. It enables you to create evaluation keys with date bound expiration

Its only $69

Its probably easily hackable by the code kiddies out there but it will be enough to stop average jo from cheating you out of your money....

Its less life consuming than writing your own and watching that get hacked as well

nuff said, im going to try it, i'll let you know how it goes.

Diagnostic check for the body

http://www.lifescanuk.org/services/index.php

A full CT scan to find out if you have heart problems, cancer, etc for £650.. its a lot of money but then again you only get one body?

Printing forms using C#

This is a tiresome part of the new dot net language, not being able even to print a simple form...

Anyway, this code helps..

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/PrintForm.asp

Wow..

Javascript for putting a cookie and retrieving a cookie

Someone asked me the other day how to save a cookie via javascript, then retrieve said cookie to display the users name..

Simple right? I couldnt remember javascript at all to be honest - but i found this article:

http://www.webreference.com/js/column8/functions.html

Suddenly it all made sense again!

Its easy when you know how..

Source code versioning and sharing - simply?

Well.. I need to implement some kind of source control - im working on a project which will require the input of a team of two, sharing files over adsl connection -
http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion is what im looking into.

Id like to make it portable and scalable as im fed up of managing installs again and again - so im going to build a virtual machine to host it.

Technologies that im going to use:

VMware,
Redhat linux fedora core,
Subversion.

Coding environment that im aiming to support:
Asp.net (vb)
Html
SQL server 2005

Users:
One person coding
One person carrying out html design changes

Articles and useful links:

A useful article on interfacing with dot net http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/file_diff_and_webreports.asp

Another useful article on interfacing with dot net
http://morph.telspace.co.za/docs/SVN4VSdotNet.php
Subversion toolset for interfacing with dot net
http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/
Looking at how to interface SQL with subversion (not 2005 but i will look at that later)
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/ScriptDB4Svn.asp

Stage 1:

Downloaded and installed: VMware server (free from www.vmware.com)
Linux - red hat fedora core 6 dvd from www.redhat.com - again free. This takes days to download...

Created a new virtual machine - settings were:

Memory 192mb (this was reccomended)
Disk drive 8gb (default - can change this at a later point) - one gotcha that caused problems at first was that you have to make sure you choose the lsi logic scsi option, i used the default and then was told by fedora core installer that the disk couldnt be recognised.

Once the machine created i pointed the cdrom at the iso image of red hat fedora downloaded as above and then started the machine. At this point the install for fedora started running through.





I'll keep you posted on how it goes...