Miscellaneous - Blog Links

Blog Links

I've always used Bloglines as an online RSS-feed aggregator. I like using an online aggregator as it lets me read feeds from anywhere with an Internet connection. Unfortunately, Bloglines closed on 1st November 2010. I searched for some time to find an online aggregator or even just some appropriate code which I could install on this server, before finally settling on Google Reader. Unfortunately, Google Reader was retired on 1st July 2013. I've since settled on The Old Reader and have paid for a subscription in the hope that might keep them afloat a bit longer!

Bloglines let you keep posts which are interesting, and I had stored up 31 posts of interest. I could see no easy way to import these to Google, and so am posting these here. It is anticipated that links will be removed as they become obselete or no longer of value.

Scott Hanselman

• Silverlight 2 is out! Lists some useful developer tools for working with Silverlight, with links to the SDK and other stuff.

• Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 - First-Pass Must-Haves A list of useful software utilities.

• Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows A longer list of utilities, categorised neatly.

• Square Foot Gardening for Programmers Simple vegetable growing by making discrete beds.

• MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview Testing websites between browsers using a few different places, with a description of how to use Microsoft Expression Web.

• The Best Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools, Power Commands and Extensions Another list of utilities, this time for VS2010.

• How to Post Code To Your Blog and other Religious Arguments A selection of ways to format source code in blog posts.

• Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7

Hack a Day

• BatchPCB now even more à la carte Details about BatchPCB, a company which produces and ships Printed Circuit Boards to design.

• TI makes a big bid for the hobby market Article with information about TI's new hobby microprocessor board.

• So you want to make a Command Line Interface

Ed Bott's Windows Expertise

• Use this fix-it tool to preview PDF files on 64-bit Windows Adobe can't make PDF preview work properly, but this chap can.

Coding Horror

• What's Your Backup Strategy?

• Understanding The Hardware Advice on building your own computer with some general tips on choosing hardware.

• Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes

• We Done Been ... Framed! How to break out when your webpage has been loaded in a frame by another site.

• So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code) Guide to dealing with the more irritating points of sending email, such as DomainKeys.

• Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

• Learn about the Canonical Link Element in 5 minutes

istartedsomething

• Scenic Ribbon UI framework to be backported to Vista with “Windows 7 Client Platform Update” Details about the Scenic Ribbon UI framework - writing your own ribbon toolbars.

• Photoshop your own Windows Phone 7 applications A collection of design templates for modelling Windows 7 Phone Apps.

The Old New Thing

• Where does shell.windows.com get information about file extensions, and how do I get in on that action?

• How do I determine the processor's cache line size?

• How do I switch a window between normal and fullscreen?

Mark's Blog

• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory

• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads

• Pushing the Limits of Windows: USER and GDI Objects – Part 1

• Pushing the Limits of Windows: USER and GDI Objects – Part 2

Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog

• The Office 2007 UI Bible A collection of other blog posts and documentation about the Office 2007 Ribbon Interface.

• Developer Resources for Office 2007 RTM