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Links of the week #83 - “Not much to bookmark” Edition

David Vidmar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:35:12 GMT

Development

Support Details - Send you customers to this page and know all info about their computer that you need to debug web pages.

Software Updates

Jobs

What’s going on…

David Vidmar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:19:26 GMT

I have been really busy in the last year and a half since m and I got twin boys. There were some initial “bugs” so it has been even more demanding than ordinary, but things are getting into a routine, so it looks I’ll be more productive blog-wise in the future.

Let’s see what happened but didn’t make it to this blog:

M tried Lips and in the 24 hours we bought our own Xbox 360 (with Lips, of course). M’s initial passion is gone, but I’m hooked. So far I played Burnout Paradise, Fifa 09, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Braid (hey, I just finished that!). On my wish list are Mass Effect, Prince of Persia and Fallout 3. My gamertag is DavidV51 (but I’m planning of changing it, since it’s super oogly), add me as a friend, if you know me.

Put your gamertag here too.

I wrote couple of articles for Monitor magazine including navigation software for phones, password management, online price comparison services, computer productivity, online shopping, and reviews of Google Sync, Postbox, Igrajmo.se, Live Mesh and more. I plan to blog a short version of some of these articles. If have any wished, just shoot.
When on vacation in May, I again “had” to hack the device. I had XBox but Philips TV had locked settings menu. Little bit of Googling and solution was in hand. Pressing 3,1,9,7,5,3 and Mute unlocks the TV for configuration. I loved it! ;)
I passed Exam MB2-631: CRM 4.0 Customization and Configuration exam. Similar to Dynamics AX exam this is pretty easy if you worked with CRM for a while. If not, reading through MOC materials should prepare you for passing the exam.
I also passed Exam 70-431: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Implementation and Maintenance. Much harder that CRM or AX exam, pa totally doable. I read over a MS prep book in couple of evenings and pass with 90%+.

Firefox 3.5 and LastPass 1.51.2

David Vidmar — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:53:45 GMT

If you just upgraded to still hot Firefox 3.5 and noticed that LastPass plugin is not compatible, don’t worry.

It seems there is a bug somewhere (FF or LP, who knows) and reinstalling the same version of LastPass Firefox plugin fixes it.

How do you like Firefox 3.5 so far? Did you notice any speed improvements?

Links of the week #82 - “Back From Holidays in Croatia” Edition

David Vidmar — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:36:38 GMT

Development

LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 - Looks like Linq to SQL isn't dead after all. Great!
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Plugin Parameters - The following table lists the main parameters passed to plugins on the most common messages. If the message you want isn't listed here, post a comment and I'll update the table.

Music

Album Reminder - Receive RSS or email notifications when your favorite artists release a new album.

Photography

Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference Cards
New UI for DSLR Camera Remote - One onOne with Mike Wong - DSLR Camera Remote app for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Software

CodePlex.SpaceBlock - SpaceBlock is a simple Windows front-end for managing Amazon S3, Nirvanix, Azure Blob Storage, and now Sun Cloud Object Storage online service accounts.
Ditto clipboard manager - Extension to the standard windows clipboard.
Ekahau HeatMapper - Free Wi-Fi Coverage Mapping Site Survey Tool
Fences - Create regions on your desktop to organize icons.
Vistumbler.net - Wireless network analyzer (like NetStumbler) that works under Vista / Windows 7. It's just AutoIT script that runs 'netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid' command to get WiFi network info.

Web

Free Online Barcode Generator

Software Updates

Jobs

Windows Fader 2.0.1.0 released

David Vidmar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:27:15 GMT

I just uploaded a minor bug-fix version of Windows Fader screensaver. Feel free to update or try it if you are a new user!

Donations welcome!

Links of the week #82 – “Finally on Sunday” Edition

David Vidmar — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:59:25 GMT

Development

Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft.NET Framework (v0.85) - Home - Source code library that can be used to access new Windows 7 features (and some related Windows Vista features) from managed code.
SQL Server Setup Checklist

Design

DryIcons.com - With some Free Icons
Free Fonts to Download - Hand picked free fonts

Web

showRSS - FeedMyTorrents clone.

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the week #81

David Vidmar — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:43:50 GMT

Development

Blank Subject Warning for Outlook 2007 - Just what I need.
UppercuT - The Insanely Easy to Use Automated Build Framework. Let's give it some time and see if it can replace NAnt
Put up a REST API for Xbox Gamertag Data - Duncan Mackenzie's .NET web service to access Xbox 360 gamer data
SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Script - This is the annotated set of diagnostic queries that I used for my demonstration at the Denver SQL Server User+s Group on May 21. Many of these are SQL Server 2008 specific, and you need VIEW SERVER STATE permission to run most of them.

Software Updates

TVvSPOREDnik fixed

David Vidmar — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:30:45 GMT

Last couple of days TVvSPOREDnik didn’t have any program for couple of channels.

Standalone version of the grabber has also been updated, get it from home page.

I just fixed that and I dedicate this fix to my lovely wife. :)

Links of the week #80

David Vidmar — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:55:49 GMT

Development

Optimizing and Maintaining Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - Whitepaper
Practical UML: A Hands-On Introduction for Developers - This tutorial provides a quick introduction to the Unified Modeling Language
Internals Viewer for SQL Server - Internals Viewer is a tool for looking into the SQL Server storage engine and seeing how data is physically allocated, organized and stored.

Games

FIFA 09 Guide

Software

CD/DVD Drive Locker - Kids keep opening my DVD tray. This should keep them away.

Software Updates

Jobs

The best new feature in Windows 7

David Vidmar — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:09:40 GMT

I just installed Windows 7 RC in Virtual PC and found that Windows 7 has a keyboard shortcut for creating new folder. Just press CTRL + SHIFT + N and you got it! Finally!

This alone will be the reason I’ll install Windows 7 as soon as it RTM’s!

Links of the week #79 (a.k.a. long overdue edition)

David Vidmar — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:47:37 GMT

Development

How to choose between ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit
Crm Developers Tool - This tool incorporates an entity browser which allows you to browser all the entities, their attributes and available SDK messages. Second it has a Plug-in browser which allows you to browser, create, update and delete plug-ins registered on the connected system.
How to display related entity field in a CRM Lookup instead of the primary entity field? - Sweet MS CRM trick.
Finding the Causes of Poor Performance in SQL Server, Part 1, Part 2

Design

flipping typical - Web site that shows previews of installed fonts.

Games

Buy Microsoft Points Online, Wii Points Online
xboxliveuk76 - Buy Microsoft Xbox Live Points and subscription and get codes instantly.

Photography

Timothy Armes' LR2/Mogrify - LR2/Mogrify is a Lightroom 2 post-process plug-in that can embellish your images as they are exported from Lightroom. It's flexible interface allows you to add borders, watermarks and text annotations to your images.

Slovenia

OdpiralniČasi - Search opening times, location an phone numbers of services in Slovenia. Neat. Mobile version available.

Software

Rapid Environment Editor - Freeware Windows environment variables editor, portable.

Software Updates

Jobs

Adacta išče .NET razvijalce

David Vidmar — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:11:28 GMT

Skupina Adacta smo dinamično in hitro rastoče podjetje, ki z inovativnimi IT rešitvami pomaga podjetjem pri njihovem razvoju. Glavna področja našega delovanja so bančni, finančni in zavarovalniški informacijski sistemi ter implementacija poslovnih (ERP), BI in CRM rešitev. V podjetjih v Ljubljani, Mariboru, Zagrebu, Beogradu in Trstu zaposlujemo preko 200 ljudi, ki so uspešno zaključili več kot 250 projektov.

V svojo ekipo vabimo osebo za prosto delovno mesto:

RAZVIJALEC .NET (m/ž)

Za delo na zanimivih IT projektih v Sloveniji iščemo sodelavca/ko, ki premore:

univerzitetni študij naravoslovne ali tehnične smeri
znanje programskih jezikov: C# ali C++
izkušnje z razvojem desktop in spletnih aplikacij
zaželeno je znanje osnov dela z relacijskimi bazami podatkov: MS SQL, ORACLE, IBM DB2
jezik SQL, najbolje MS SQL Server in T-SQL
opcijsko: poznavanje orodij za integracije in poročanje
dobro konceptualno znanje programiranja s praktičnimi izkušnjami
dobre analitične sposobnosti
komunikativnost in sposobnost dela v timu
aktivno znanje slovenščine in angleščine
vozniški izpit B-kategorije
veliko dobre volje in veselja do dela

Ponujamo vam delovno mesto v ekipi, ki ceni proaktivnost, in delo, ki prinaša:

zaposlitev v mladem dinamičnem kolektivu z odlično organizacijsko klimo
možnost dodatnega izobraževanja
veliko samostojnost pri delu
osebni razvoj in možnost napredovanja

Če ustrezate zgoraj navedenim pogojem in vas delovno mesto zanima, nam čim prej pošljite svojo prijavo in življenjepis na: career@adacta.si. Prosimo vas, da v prijavi jasno navedete, na katero delovno mesto se prijavljate.

Veselimo se našega sodelovanja,

www.adacta.si

Links of the week #78

David Vidmar — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:14:02 GMT

Development

ASP.NET MVC Training Kit
Full example of using MvcContrib grid with jQuery datatable - Excellent stuff. It's just too easy!
Tips for Productive JavaScript Development in Dynamics CRM

Design

1001 Free Fonts
Avatar Size Reference Guide - How to correctly size your avatar for sites and services.

Slovenia

geoStik - Slovenia map with lots of info including weather, traffic info, webcams and more.

Software

CSV file editor - Doesn't change content of the file like Excel-
Free SQL Server database backup, Zip and FTP software
AdSweep - An ad blocker for your favorite web browser (Chrome too!)

Software Updates

Jobs

Links of the week #77

David Vidmar — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:49:08 GMT

Development

Downloader for Resharper Nightly Builds - Automate updates for EAP ReSharper builds.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Debugger Visualizers Tools - Visual Studio 2005 shipped with a very nice feature called debugger visualizers. In accordance with their names, debugger visualizers allow you to visually view useful information about objects during debug.
Creating an Ajax Login Form With jQuery - ...using ASP.NET MVC.
Ask Jon Skeet - Stackoverflow search containing ONLY Jon's answers + "facts".
CrmDiagTool4 for Microsoft CRM 4.0
CRM Trace Log Viewer
Guide to CSS support in email clients (2008)
xVal - a validation framework for ASP.NET MVC
ISV Utilities for Comparing Customizations and Transferring Configuration Data - Customization Comparison Utility and Configuration Data Utility for MS CRM4 with source code.
Styleneat - Online CSS Organizer

Fun

15 Most Brilliant Simpsons Quotes
Worldometers - real time world statistics

Games

The Space Game - by David Scott â€“ Candystand.com - Free Flash Real Time Strategy Game. Warning: Addictive!
JamLegend - Online Guitar Hero clone with social twist.

Software

synergy-plus - Synergy lives!
Portable Digsby

Software Updates

Windows Home Server available on MSDN

David Vidmar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:53:30 GMT

Since today, Windows Home Server is available for download for MSDN subscribers. The main goal is to “ncrease awareness of Windows Home Server with a larger community of professional developers and help further grow the ecosystem of software applications built for Windows Home Server”.

For more info, jump to Windows Homer Server Blog.

On the same not Power Pack 2 is now available. Download via Windows Update. Philip has more info.