Sitecore Developer Network Search Plug-in for Firefox

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Here is a SDN Search plug-in for developers who use Firefox, this search allows you to search from Sitecore Developer Network.
Get it from here

How to trick out serial number check in Windows Update

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From Boing Boing
Before pressing ‘Custom’ or ‘Express’ buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:
javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')
It turns off the trigger for the key check.

Source Control HOWTO

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Series of articles explaining how to do source control and the best practices thereof.

Google Earth…. WOW

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No… I haven’t been living under a rock last few weeks. I just haven’t had a time to check out this new application before. But now I am totally hooked to Google Earth it?s really, really cool. As well as Google maps, Gmail, Google Groups and… yes… Search as well.
I need to hook up very soon to their API.
These guys are doing really cool applications.Thought, one thing I don’t understand they don’t seem to validate their code against w3c standards :-/

AJAX links

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Developers and designers have come really crazy about AJAX. I started to look for AJAX framework for some simple form validation and I found huge amount of code samples and frameworks which are under development or already on version 5.0.

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Getting into VS.NET 2k5

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Looks like new version of Visual Studio is actually REAL new version not like VS.NET 2003 which was more like a patch to VS.NET than actually new version of the IDE.

I got my own copy of Visual Studio 2005 from Microsoft this week. However, I have been quite busy this week so I haven?t got into program yet. I have been working with XSLT?s with it and damn I love code IntelliSense in it. Thank you Microsoft!
Here is something I have found out so far.
Introduction to .NET 2.0 (layout breaks in Firefox)
VS2005 beta 2 slow?

XAML isn?t for the web.

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As a web developer I haven’t been able to figure out what will I do with XAML on my work. First when I heard about XAML I though XAML will be Microsoft replacement for SVG. After looking XAML I got really angry for Microsoft because I was unable to find any W3C standards except XML in it. This would it mean that I can’t reuse CSS, SVG etc. in XAML. Until today I have lived on misconception that MS is just out to push some new proprietary standard.

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Microsoft Word meets XSL-FO

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In MSDN there is an article about Transforming Word Documents into the XSL-FO Format. The article introduces WordprocessingML and XSL-FO vocabularies and shows how to transform Word documents to into XSL-FO.
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Microsoft hires creator of Final Fantasy

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Final Fantasy Bad news for playstation gamers… Microsoft announced Thursday that is has signed a deal with the creator of the influential “Final Fantasy” series to produce two new titles for the next version of the Xbox.
Good oooolldd “If you can’t beat them buy them” strategy works again.

Xbox 2 news (or rumors)

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Alex Albrecht has some insider news about Xbox II. Seems like we are going to expect big battle with PS3 and Xbox2 but which is out first?

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1) Hard Drive… Yes! There was some speculation that MS was going to take the HD out to make it more difficult to Mod.

2) Flash based HD… Yes!!! It was told to me that the HD was going to be flash based… small size fast access… BAM!

3) No Stupid Dongle DVD playback… Yes!!! The reason that the first Xbox didn’t have built in DVD playback is a simple one, Sony owns the Intellectual Property rights for DVD playback. Nuf said…

4) Xbox II at E3… Hell Yes!!! There will be an Xbox II maybe more at E3 this year…

5) Xbox II release date announced at E3… another Hell Yes!!! MS will be announcing a release date for Xbox II…
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