Arno Nel 2.0

What out Team System, here comes Team City

From the company that brought us Omea Reader and ReSharper, comes Team City. A quote from their site: "TeamCity is an integrated team environment which, following the tradition of IntelliJ IDEA, brings the software team productivity to a whole new level."
[Thanks to Mike Gunderloy at Daily Grind]

Getting Real, Step 1: No Functional Spec

Great article on the 37 Signals site on using a UI as a functional spec.
Quotes from the article:
"Getting Real is all about starting from the user interface and customer experience and then building out. Visual design first, programming second. "

"Step 1: Don’t write a functional specifications document
Don’t write a functional specifications document. Why? Well, there’s nothing functional about a functional specifications document."

The best part of the post, are all the comments. Definately one to bookmark.

OpenClipart Library

Yahoo! and Microsoft Bridge Global Instant Messaging Communities

Not sure if anyone read this announcement, but Microsoft have announced the interoperability between Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.

String Formatting in C#

Thanks to SteveX for this. This is a post that will come in very handy. Eg:

Numbers

Basic number formatting specifiers:

Proggy Programming Fonts

Some nice programming fonts available here . Eg:

I personally prefer Consolas for VS2005.

Consolas is an important typeface because lengthy on-screen reading while programming can quickly tire the eyes. But I'll focus less on it because of its limited application. "

More details here

Virtual PC Is Now Free!

"Microsoft is also offering the free download of Virtual PC 2007, with support for Windows Vista in 2007"
Go here

Star Wars Revelations

Now this is pretty kewl.

"Revelations" is a non-profit Star Wars fan film that was shot within the Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC Metro Area. "Revelations" is made possible through a combined effort of artists, fans and the local film industry. Everyone who has worked on "Revelations" is a volunteer. No one is paid to make this film. Panic Struck Productions set out to produce their first independent film with a very small budget and the result is "Revelations"

Cross Posted from ArnoNel.com

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Kool IM

You cant IM anyone because of your pesky firewall ? Have you tried Kool IM? Hurry now, before it gets blocked....

The following are handled by KoolIM: AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Talk, ICQ, Jabber

Krypton Toolkit - The free user interface toolkit for .NET2

Some free new controls released by Component Factory which are designed for .NET2 and  for VS2005.
 
  Includes:-
     KryptonButton
     KryptonCheckButton
     KryptonSplitContainer
     KryptonHeaderGroup
     KryptonManager
     KryptonPalette
     KryptonGroup
     KryptonHeader
     KryptonPanel
     ...and more...
 

   Download Now

The Google Pagerank Algorithm and How It Works

Finally, a well written article with examples on how Page Rank works.

"Page Rank is a topic much discussed by Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) experts. At the heart of PageRank is a mathematical formula that seems scary to look at but is actually fairly simple to understand." View the rest of the article

Im moving to 3Fifteen