For all of you MSDN Subscribers, a new version of Visual Studio 2005 has been made available (the same version that TechEd attendees can pick up). Get it while it’s hot. :)
Via Kevin Dente.

With today being the first day of Microsoft’s TechEd 2004 conference, there have been quite a few announcements. To me, the biggest announcement was Visual Studio 2005 Team System.
This appears to be Microsoft’s answer to those customers who want to be able to manage more of their development process using Visual Studio, or other […]

One of Windows’s largest faults, at least as far as geeks and power users are concerned, is its CLI. While the CLI of NT/2k/XP is significantly more powerful than that of Windows 9x (don’t even get me started with that horrible thing), it looks like Longhorn is going to get a significant upgrade in this […]

I know that I’ve seen some very pointless code in my day, and I’m always scratching my head trying to figure out what the original author was thinking. It’s never fun to come across code like this.
However, the author of The Daily WTF does an excellent job of making pointless code snippets funny. You […]

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has proposed changes to the development process in order to assist in defending future claims against ownership of source code in the operating system’s kernel.

“Some of you may have heard of this crazy company called SCO (aka ‘Smoking Crack Organization’) who seem to have a hard time believing that open […]

Why? Because you can I guess and it would make for a nice dev machine if need be. If you decide to use it host a whole website well, let me know about it as I would be curious to see that.

Author Dan Wellman explains what the Apache HTTP web server is and how it […]

This is what .Net excels in. Goes over XMLTextReader, XMLValidatingReader, and XMLDocument.

.NET provides a powerful set of classes for working with XML directly. This article provides an overview of the most important of these classes, and some examples of what you can do with them.

Interesting concept of how a guy converted his MySQL data into a RSS 2.0 feed. Useful for people who build their own CMSs or just use sites that only contain MySQL Data. Would like to see him use the PEAR libraries or whatever else to make the datbase platform neutral.
via: Tim Yang

A nice lil site that gets right to the point with new finds that relate to the web and digital media.

Buildings that serve a purpose and enhance the beauty of the environment around them are created by artists disguised as architects. Buildings that are hideous and need to be torn down are created by architects. The difference is that the artist takes pride in what he is doing. He understands that his […]

PDFs are great. Having to wait for Acrobat Reader to open is not so great. This method has been around a while, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to post it for everyone who missed it. This decreases the time it takes for Reader to open.

Find the “plug_ins” folder and rename it “plug_ins_disabled”
Create a new […]

This is a superbly written piece by Jono Bacon that talks about the problems that occur with many OS projects at the beginning that live for about 2 weeks and then quickly die out. The beauty and charm of OS projects is the fact that you can get people all over the world to help […]

Since all the geeks out there love to continuously upgrade their systems for greater performance, what greater excuse can you get than PCI is going out the door? No longer will we use PCI soundcards or ethernet adapters. Now we get to have super fast soundcards and ethernet adapters! Well okay that part isn’t such […]

Written entirely in Perl, with a little help from Gtk2.
Geez, a Sinclair.
1980s.
Talk about old school.

This is easily the most indepth take on a case mod that I have ever seen. You owe yourself a favor to go check this out and realize your geek score is nowhere near this guy’s.

Project Goliath began in my head nearly a year ago. I’d been wanting to get into watercooling, because its quiet, […]

It’s like Mozilla in a can!

Mozilla, the browser, is arguably one of the best desktop browsers. Mozilla is used in many desktop applications: Netscape 7, CompuServe, AOL for Mac, Ximian GNOME, Galeon, and Nautilus. There also have been a few ports to make Mozilla run on various devices such as the Nokia Media Terminal and […]