Karma's Nucleus DevBlog

It has been quite a while since the previous linkdump. I've started using the del.icio.us social bookmark manager since. you'll find my permanent linkdump over there. Nevertheless, here is a selection from the past few weeks:

• Browsershots
• IEBlog: Overview of CSS fixes to land in IE7 beta 2
• Nucleus Wiki: Boron (collection of ideas for a major Nucleus refactoring)
• Nucleus Wiki: Contributing
• Atom 1.0 skin for Nucleus 3.x
• Nucleus Tags Plugin
• MSN Virtual AmericaEarth
• FeedShake
• rakaz - Moving from Atom 0.3 to 1.0
• Free e-book: "PHP 5 Power Programming"
• jsUnit: Unit testing in JavaScript
• Six JavaScript features we do not need any longer
• TiddlyWiki
• JavaScript Diff Algorithm
• script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript
• Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours
• Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List

• Tools/Software
  • Cropper: Screen capture utility in C#.
  • KeePass Password Safe
  • The Regulator: Regular expressions testing tool.
  • "That" is "My" for C#.
  • Opensourcetesting.org: Open source tools for software testing professionals
• Groktalks: 10 minute micro-presentations recorded at TechEd
• Lifecycle of Bloggers. Familiar.
• ThinkGeek: TCP/IP Creeper & Toddler Tee
• Blinky Pointer Fun Video: a fun 3 minute video that explains the basics features of pointers and memory.
• Abusing Amazon Images
• Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005 (or in dutch: Naar Voren: 10 JavaScript vuistregels)
• PHP5: http_build_query & headers_list
• Google Sitemaps
• Safari Screenshot Generator (offline?)
• Sudoku
  • Sudoku Fun
  • Wikipedia: Sudoku

Assorted links:

• Blogger -> Nucleus conversion tool revitalized by admun.
• CSS Compressor (by moraes)
• Greasemonkey:
  • Dive Into Greasemonkey
  • How To Disable GreaseMonkey On Your Web Site
• JavaScript Textarea Tools
• OpenID: "A distributed identity system, but one that's actually distributed and doesn't entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business."
• Google Blogoscoped: Planting My Search History Entries
• Aardvark Firefox Extension
• Sets in JavaScript
• Rendering Web Page To Images (future Gecko)
• Das Keyboard. Yay!
• Google Factory Tour Slides (May 19, 2005)
• The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb)
• NewsGator acquires FeedDemon
• SH/SC Wiki : UsefulWindowsSoftware
• Windows Tip of the Day
• Nice: Moss Graffiti
• Geek humor: drop this mario image onto WinAmp

More links!

• Rakaz: NP_Revision 0.6
• POPjisyo, pop-up dictionary for Japanese, Chinese, Korean and other languages. Try it on Nucleus CMS Japan.
• Apress Weblog: Is Ajax worth adopting?
• Firefox Estension: PDF download (prevents from unknowingly opening .PDF files in the browser)
• MSDN: Coding4Fun
• Visual Studio 2005 Beta Experience
• Gubed PHP debugger (still need to get this to work)
• Ourmedia
• CSS Compressor
• Webpage design timeline (animated gif)
• Thinking machine 4 (see the chess computer think)
• More chess: The Turk (18th century chess 'computer')
• Google Web Accelerator
• Speeding hurts
• Lookalikes: Duracell vs Durabatt
• Flickr search feed: Nucleus: I'm watching :)
• Balance, animated short from the Lauenstein brothers (1989, IMDb)
• La la la la

Once again, some assorted links:

• TaskSwitchXP Pro 2.0: nice alt-tab replacement for Windows XP. With source-code.
• Direct Manipulation Using JavaScript and CSS
• Retro.Vandergrift.Net: opening themes of old TV shows
• XSPF Web Music Player (Flash object to play MP3)
• Yahoo! Web API: Term Extraction (extracts keywords out of a bunch of text)
• Google Maps Hacking
• Ajax & XmlHttpRequest examples
• Google Code
• HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate
• WaSP: The Acid2 browser test
• MetaWishlist

• Nucleus Skin Browser
• Flickr: Nucleus Tags Autocomplete Plugin
• NucleusCMS CIA (monitors CVS -- if it isn't down)
• Nucleus News Planet (aggregates Nucleus news from different sources)
• Google Results Prefetching (Mozilla Link Prefetching FAQ)
• Blogger Buzz: No More Lost Posts! (Blogger now saves drafts in a cookie while you're typing)
• Phalanger: PHP to .NET compiler (via - phpbb as demo)
• Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Beta February 2005 CTP
• Free Apress ebook: COM and .NET Interoperability (Andrew Troelsen)
• Windows Server 2003 SP1
• Source for a C# compiler written in pure C#