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This is an excellent summary of the various software programming paradigms of the past as well as those that are emerging now. Now if only I had time to read all the papers in the bibliography.
8:34:12 AM
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In a March 3rd New Community talk from Willow Creek entitled "Flow, A Beautiful Mind," John Ortberg mentioned the movie about John Nash called A Beautiful Mind. In the movie John Nash suffers from delusions of people that talk to him. At one point in the movie a man come to visit John Nash and discuss with the fact that John is a Noble Prize candidate. In response, John Nash turns to one of his students and says, "Do you see that man standing there?" The idea is that John is looking to others to help discern delusions from reality.
In the same way we need to be looking to friends and our small group to help us discern falsehoods from truth. John Nash's humility in asking a student adds significantly to the example of seeking discernment as this is often a key ingredient to seeking God's will.
8:12:53 AM
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This link provides a means for creating color coded HTML of your C#, VB, SQL and ASPX source code. Furthermore, you can access this code formatter as a WebService. Neat! (One unfortunate characteristic is that it supplies the HTML font size in addition to color.)
6:53:11 AM
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I was kinda surprised to see mention, even how-to information, on this utility posted on the javaworld website. Imagine that!
The Java Language Converter Assistant (JLCA) "is a tool that automatically converts existing Java-language source code into C# for developers who want to move their existing applications to the Microsoft .NET Framework."
6:49:54 AM
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This is not really a new announcement or anything but a reminder that you can get full access to a version of the C# compiler and CRL from Microsoft.
"The C#/JScript/CLI Implementations Shared Source Licensing Program contains source code for a complete implementation of the CLI, as well as two language compilers, one for the C# language and the other for the ECMAScript language. A beta-quality source code release is scheduled to be available later this year for the Microsoft Windows® XP platform and FreeBSD. The implementation is designed for use on PC hardware and shares much of its implementation with Microsoft's commercial .NET Framework CLI implementation."
"The Shared Source Code for C#, JScript, and CLI can be obtained simply by reviewing the license agreement at http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/sscli and downloading the source archive. You must electronically accept the terms and conditions of the agreement before downloading the source code."
6:23:32 AM
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About five years ago my network administrator, Ted Kekatos, and shared an April Fools joke about a monitor that could capture images as well as display them. Anyway, it looks like perhaps this has become a reality and no longer a Joke. If only I could find the link with the joke on it. Amazing!
6:11:54 AM
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I have been using tools from Sysinternals now for many years. I recently popped back to their site to get some updates and decided it was worth while to list the ones I use or appear to be extremely useful even if I don't use them.
| Process Explorer v5.25 |
Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process.
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| Regmon v6.03 |
This monitoring tool lets you see all Registry activity in real-time. It works on all versions of WinNT/2K, Windows 9x/Me and Windows 64-bit.
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| TCPView v2.3 |
See all open TCP and UDP endpoints. On Windows NT, 2000 and XP TCPView even displays the name of the process that owns each endpoint. Full source to the command-line version of this tool, netstatp, is included.
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| BgInfo v3.05 |
This fully-configurable program automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system including IP addresses, computer name, network adapters, and more.
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| DebugView v4.21 |
Another first from Sysinternals: This program intercepts calls made to DbgPrint by device drivers and OutputDebugString made by Win32 programs. It allows for viewing and recording of debug session output on your local machine or across the Internet without an active debugger.
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| NTFSDOS |
Access NTFS drives for read-only access from DOS. (There is a professional read/write version a well.)
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| Locksmith v1.0 |
Locksmith is an add-on program to NTRecover that allows for the changing of passwords on systems where the administrative password has been lost. It works 100% of the time, and if you've forgotten the password to your machine, you can gain entry within minutes using Locksmith. |
After creating this list it occurs to me that in actual fact there are so many awesome utilities there that you should probably just go to the site directly. For most of them they even include source code. Awesome!
6:03:37 AM
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As part of my continued evaluation of EXIF utilities I came across the following editors:
- IMatch - a $50 shareware tool to help you managed your images
- Exif Reader 2.90 - A read only viewer of Exif data
5:34:32 AM
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