Adrian Smith's Blog » bookmarks http://www.17od.com Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:04:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bookmarks for 2010-03-05 http://www.17od.com/2010/03/04/bookmarks-for-2010-03-05/ http://www.17od.com/2010/03/04/bookmarks-for-2010-03-05/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:03:29 +0000 Adrian http://www.17od.com/?p=296 Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams | Video on TED.com
Randy Pausch shares his story. Amazing stuff. I can only imagine what it would have been like to work (or play) with this man.

Oracle DBMS_CHANGE_NOTIFICATION
An interesting way of subscribing to events in an Oracle db. Could be used as an alternative to triggers where the work to be carried out is not possible from a trigger or needs to be done async to the trigger.

QuickSharp
MonoDevelop
SharpDevelop IDE for C#
A few opensource C# IDEs.

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An interesting looking maths book. One to add to the “must read” list.

The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Gary Blank
"Step-by-step strategy of how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development for a new product or company."

Steak: How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steak into Gucci “Prime” Steak
How to cook a really tasty steak using a *lot* of salt. I'll definitely be trying this one out.

Design 0.101 for Programmers
A nice step by step guide describing how to build a simple but nicely styled set of web pages. I usually use YUI or Blueprint to give me the basics but sometimes they can be a bit heavy if all you want is a simple page or two.

Fiddler Web Debugger
Useful proxy based tool for inspecting and "fiddling" with HTTP requests and responses.

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This SSD has been getting great reviews. A bit expensive but I think the performance gain would be worth it, especially on a laptop.

Patchbin – Share and collaborate on patches
An open source code review / code sharing app. Looks nice and simple. It’s written in Python and runs on Django.

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One of the better, if not the best resource for learning python.

South Dublin County Libraries
Homepage for the Tallaght and other south Dublin libraries.

Android Source Code Git Repositories
Looking for the Android source code? This is the Android Git homepage with references to all repositories. Useful if you’re developing an app and would like to see the source for some of the packaged apps.

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