I just came across a great site with tons of pre-built CSS layouts. It's well worth a look and I will be trying it out for sure in the near future. http://layouts.ironmyers.com/    

Ever had to debug memory usage in a Windows application and had problems understanding what all the various type of allocations are in SysInternals or Process Explorer are? It seems every time I load up SysInternals I have to redo my research over and over again to understand what the tool is show... [More]

Just came across this very comprehensive guide for using C# and Mono to develop for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This is definitely something I am very interested in getting in to when I have some spare time. One of the questions I have though is if I have to really buy a Mac and use thi... [More]

Just came accross this pretty good guide about some of the issues faced in Cryptography by Geekosaur. It's well worth a read and comes in two parts:   The Geekosaur guide to not sucking at cryptography, part one: Mastering Modes is Mandatory The Geekosaur guide to not s... [More]

Just came across by far the best explanation of standard deviation I have ever read. Standard deviation comes up quite a lot in my daily work but it is one of those concepts that sometimes can be hard to explain. Amar Sagoo has done an excellent job on his blog and should be saluted for his e... [More]

I just came across this blog post containing a review of 40 online generators.  There are some great online generators there. I particularly like the background image creators and will be using these. Surprised they missed off this awesome animated loading image generator though.  ... [More]

ScottGu has just done a brief blog post about some of the code editing productivity enhancements availiable in the Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010 add-on. This is a follow on from his earlier more in-depth posts on the subject which are here and here. The add-ons which have been made... [More]

Have you ever got frustrated because the website you have been developing and testing on the inbuilt Visual Studio webserver (Cassini) does not work when published to IIS? You have always had the option to use a local instance of IIS on your machine to debug Visual Studio web projects but thi... [More]

An American businessman was standing at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish. "How long did it take ... [More]