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Ajax loader generator

Ajaxload is a dynamic ajax load image generator. Just pick your colors and a template and you are done!

JQuery plugin - s3slider

The s3slider plugin for JQuery creates nice sliding boxes with text over fading images. See the demo yourself.

Trac project management / bug tracking tool

Trac is an opensource project management / bug tracking tool. With this tool people can make tickets of tasks / bug fixes they need to do. It can be coupled to Subversion which makes it possible to refer to a trac task in the commit messages.

Some useful links:

• Setting permissions
• Using trac as CGI
• Installing Trac on Ubuntu for Multiple Projects
• WikiFormatting
• TracAdmin
• Formatting links
  

Subversion version control

If you work with source code, you might want to have some version control system. Subversion is free. There is a free book about Subversion which might help you setup the server. Otherwise this quick guide will do. A complete guide can be found here.

C# tutorials

Here you can find 23 lessons about C#. There are several topics included:

• Lesson 01: Getting Started
• Lesson 02: Expressions, Types, and Variables
• Lesson 03: Control Statements - Selection
• Lesson 04: Control Statements - Loops
• Lesson 05: Methods
• Lesson 06: Namespaces
• Lesson 07: Introduction to Classes
• Lesson 08: Class Inheritance
• Lesson 09: Polymorphism
• Lesson 10: Properties
• Lesson 11: Indexers
• Lesson 12: Structs
• Lesson 13: Interfaces
• Lesson 14: Introduction to Delegates and Events
• Lesson 15: Introduction to Exception Handling
• Lesson 16: Using Attributes
• Lesson 17: Enums
• Lesson 18: Overloading Operators
• Lesson 19: Encapsulation
• Lesson 20: Introduction to Generic Collections
• Lesson 21: Anonymous Methods
• Lesson 22: Topics on C# Type
• Lesson 23: Working with Nullable Types

Slow development server in ASP.NET and Firefox

When developing a website waiting on the compile can be very time consuming. I noticed that I was waiting for about 20 seconds on every refresh. After some research it turned out that there is a problem with the combination of ASP.NET development server and Firefox. To solve this slowness goto about:config in Firefox, filter by "network.dns.disableIPv6" and double-click to set to true.

Open Source Dutch postal code database

Normally you have to pay a lot of money to get access to a postal code validation database. 6PP is an initative which created an open source postal code database for Dutch postal codes. You can query an url and it will return the streetname and address matching the postal code. Currently 71% of all Dutch postal codes are in the database.

AquaPath - Xpath evaluater

From the AquaPath website:

AquaPath is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to evaluate XPath 2.0 expressions against any XML document and view the result sequence in a dynamic, intuitive tree representation.

80 Large Background Websites

Webdesignerswall.com links to 80 websites which use a large background wallpaper for their websites. It might be worth to have a look for inspiration...