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  • Stop reading and do…

    After reading this blog post on active learning, I have decided to stop doing so much damn reading and start doing more.

    "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." – Albert Einstein

    I have a few planned projects and will begin work on them in the days to come, I will be trying to blog about what I am doing as much as possible in the Developer blog.

  • Stack Overflow – A great wiki style programmer Q&A site

    Have you found Stack Overflow’s website yet?

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    Taken from the about page:

    Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that's free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it's just free. And fast. Very, very fast.

    We don't run Stack Overflow. You do. Stack Overflow is collaboratively built and maintained by your fellow programmers. Once the system learns to trust you, you'll be able to edit anything, much like Wikipedia. With your help, we can build good answers to every imaginable programming question together. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home -- better programming is our goal.

    Stack Overflow is as frictionless and painless to use as we could make it. We believe finding the right answer to your programming questions should be as easy as falling into the pit of success. And maybe even a little fun along the way.

    The site is extremely helpful, and with the reputation system and voting system the users really drive to help you find the right answers to your questions.

    The website is also a great implementation of the ASP.Net MVC framework. Jeff Atwood worked with the Microsoft team through the pre-releases to build the website and it really shines as an easy to use, easy to navigate, very searchable, great website for its purpose.

    If you want to check out my activity, here is a link to my Stack Overflow Profile. There you can check out some of my activity on the site, as well as any questions I have asked or answered. The website uses myOpenID for its authentication, which is basically another open authentication system similar to Microsoft’s Live ID system.

  • Happy New Years

    For those about to drink, I salute you.

    I will most likely be drinking, playing Rock Band 2, and some random Wii games with some guests at my house tonight, I hope your night goes well!

    Tonight is the night when everyone picks out that major flaw in their life and makes a promise that in the new year they will change it, well, why not take the thought out of it?

    I recently found this neat little Resolution Randomizer online, it is a lot of fun.  Below is my random resolution for next year.

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    Looks like I am going to be Exploring gaining weight next year, and here I am thinking that I need to lose weight! Although I was kind of looking forward to Exploring speaking loudly when I’m alone.

  • Finally a good icon creator

    If like me you have found yourself challenged on an almost daily basis with finding a program that will create multi-sized icons, then this is the program for you.  And best of all it is free.

    IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.

    With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. Create a favicon for your website or blog.

    Convert your Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista and Macintosh files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX.

    At first use, it was simple to use right out of the box, I used a 128x128 source PNG and generated all of the icon sizes I would ever need, then simply saved.

    Definitely a recommended tool.

  • Google Chrome – Out of beta

    Unlike most of Google’s projects, the super slim browser that Google cooked up came out of release after a few short months in beta.

    While the browser is a bit “different’ than what I am used to, I will give it a one to two week trial before I go back to my old favorite Internet Explorer.

    You can download it here.

    *Edit: My favorite goodie so far, using Google’s browser, you can’t view iGoogle’s chat feature.

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