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Technorati Tags: Tools del.icio.us Tags: Tools Sun’s VirtualBox virtual application just blows away Microsoft’s Virtual Machine and it’s free also. And its so packed filled with features, much more than Microsoft’s VM solution. After you’ve installed Sun VirtualBox and got an OS running on it make sure you install the guest add-ons or else you’ll have to click Ctrl to escape out of your virtual machine when in it. Then to share a folder you can do it 2 ways. You can do it via the settings when the...
Technorati Tags: Tools,Open Source,Wiki The docs are “ok” at best so here are my quick instructions to help you understand quickly how to get ScrewTurn Wiki configured to use a SQL Server Database. This is based on version 2. of the wiki. The RC0 3.0 has improved the process a LOT so if you are not using the RC, this should help you save a lot of time and frustration for older versions of the Wiki. Steps: 1) Download the ScrewTurn wiki source code 2) Compile it 3) Run it and once the site comes up, on the left...
Technorati Tags: Tools I wanted to give a shout out to a friend of mine who started a really cool and useful site a while back called Dimecasts.net. This site was created by Derik Whittaker, a very good friend of mine (in fact was my college roommate…which means I have a lot of good dirt on him jk) who is passionate about code. He was always the guy in his room cuddling with his doll . Dimecasts.net’s main purpose is to give brief overviews of different code technologies and tools and to better explain them through the use of...
Technorati Tags: Tools I was reading Joel Spolsky’s blog the other day as he was describing a new office that would bring a great development environment to a new building for his consulting business. As I started thinking about this, I started to think about all the shitty cubes or PCs I’ve typically had in the past. Some cubes were good, & some were simply falling apart. Most PCs just were customer service desktops or laptops at best. Now, I did not expect to have an office or the perfect PC but surely the tools to be efficient at my...
Technorati Tags: FireFox,Tools Speed Dial has been around for quite a while. But have you really tried it out and seen how useful this is? While it may slow down FireFox a little bit (small inconvenience if you manage it right), I love it. Rather than hunt through a ton of favorites or even use Google’s tabs on my Google homepage, I like this even better because I don’t have to do anything to find my most used sites. It’s right in my browser after I launch Mozilla. Speed Dial saves me a lot of time because I...
Technorati Tags: Tools,Books For a long time, I used my mouse rather than my keyboard as a primary means (with exception to the basic keyboard shortcuts) to move around in Visual Studio. Obviously I knew that this was not efficient even though I’d lie to myself and say to colleagues I was just as fast with my mouse and my few pile of shortcuts as with anyone who used keyboard shortcuts as a primary means to navigate around windows or code. Since then I’ve picked up a ton of shortcuts and realize just how fast it really is. The...
Technorati Tags: Tools Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below: ...
Technorati Tags: FireFox,Tools Fiddler is one of the best tools to analyze web requests sent from a web site and much more. Normally, using Fiddler with FireFox is a huge pain and typically does not work well out of the box when testing localhost requests or any requests for that matter with Fiddler through Firefox. But by using FoxyProxy which is just a nice plug-in to FireFox, it allows you to setup different proxies in FireFox very easily, and you can then hook into Fiddler's proxy quickly, and start to catch requests over the wire when testing...
Technorati Tags: Subtext,Windows Live Writer,Open Source,Tools Subtext is a great open source blogging application that is free and has simply been getting better and better over time. This allows you to post to your blog locally for whatever reasons that you may have a need to do so (testing custom code, etc.). To setup Windows Live Writer to work with Subtext for localhost, perform the following steps below. (At the time of this post I was using Subtext v2.0 with Windows Live Writer v12.0.1370.325 and has also worked in previous versions of Live Writer) ...
