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KAXAML!

Kewl lightweight XAML editor with split view...and best of all its free!

Check it at: http://kaxaml.com/

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Google sidewiki

Checking out Google's sidewiki widget.

Seems an awesome idea...but how long will it last?

http://www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/learnmore.html

Later Coderz

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Galleria - jQuery Image Gallery

Galleriffic is a cool image gallery in jQuery you could use.

Galleria is a jQuery image gallery plugin which displays thumbnails, scaled or unscaled, centered or cropped.

Its lightweight (4k), browserproof, customized events, images are preloaded in the background for super fast images browsing and a whole lot more...

Check the features here:

http://devkick.com/lab/galleria/

And on google code @

http://code.google.com/p/galleria/

Here is list of some other cool jQuery image galleries:

http://valums.com/javascript-image-galleries/

Going to use it my latest project ;)

Later Coderz

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Pre-loading your site images

If you need to pre-load your web site imagery or if loading long pages containing many large images makes causes you pages to take longer to show.

You might want to consider pre-loading the imagery so that the browser can be in a ready state and in certain cases you may even reduce server load.

A few libraries you could look at is QueryLoader and Lazy Load.

I especially like this demo from Lazy Load:

http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload/enabled.html

Later Coderz
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Blogging Syntax Highlighter

If you ever need a syntax high lighter for your custom written blogging engine or your CMS then SyntaxHighlighter is a cool little JavaScript plugin for just for you.

Check it out at

http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter

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Secure Cross-Domain Communication

Found this very, very interesting article regarding XSS and some work-around in the browser.

Check it out at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735305.aspx#jour12securecdcomm_topic1

Happy Coding

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Open Source SVN plugin for Visual Studio

Found a neat open source SVN plug-in similar to Visual SVN but free and Open Source!

Check it out here:

http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/

Happy Coding
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Installing Windows Services

- install rktools (Windows Resource Kit Toools)

- follow these instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890

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MVC Best Practices

Asp.net best practices by Manzur Rashid:

http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid/archive/2009/04/01/asp-net-mvc-best-practices-part-1.aspx

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Less Virtual, More Machine – Boot Virtuals

Cool article on it here, thanks to Scott Hanselman

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/LessVirtualMoreMachineWindows7AndTheMagicOfBootToVHD.aspx

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Native JSON Support for Browsers

IE 8 is the first shipping browser with native JSON support.

FireFox 3.5 will also have a JSON object to handle JSON when it ships. WebKit also has an open ticket for JSON object support, so it looks like in the near future most current browsers at least will have native JSON support.

…tests confirm that the performance gain from using native JSON serialization is significantly faster than using the json2 JavaScript library, upon which native JSON support is based…

http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=090011

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10 Things to know about PRISM

… if you did not already know ;-)

http://www.sparklingclient.com/prism-silverlight/

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14 jQuery Plugins for Images

Check it here:

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/14-jquery-plugins-for-working-with-images/

Happy Coding

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