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Code generation in Visual Studio

I have never suspected that Microsoft had this built-in, but it appears to be the case. Code generator called T4, which targets both C# or VB.NET, is built into your copy of Visual Studio and is available as you read this article.

Restore window location in WPF

For years I was server-oriented developer, quite often writing code for Unix environment and helping others to do so. However I never mind doing occasional user-oriented application or two. Lately I've been doing a lot of .NET GUI development using WPF (Windows Presentation Framework). A small task seems to come up quite often.

Clever spammers

There is no doubt - spammers are becoming cleverer every day. I've added CAPTCHA verification to my site in order to prevent spam comments from being submitted. It really helped - previously I used to remove about 10-20 of them, offering everything from child pornography to grey mortgages. However, even after doing it I still get a couple of comments a week, which are created by spammers.

New software

Great new piece of software, recently discovered by me - Foxit PDF Reader. Just a few advantages over the standard Acrobat Reader: it's faster, simpler and, most important, it allows you to save data in PDF forms!

New super-computing option from NVIDIA

From the Internet:

NVIDIA announced a new category of supercomputers — the Tesla Personal Supercomputer — a 4 TeraFLOPS desktop for under $10,000.

Drupal modules

I like Drupal a lot. It's a great system, easy to set up and use, and the most important thing, there are plenty of modules, which provide additional functionality. However, every time the Drupal development team release a new major version, the module authors have to change their modules in order to adopt to the new platform.

Firefox 3.0 is out

Finally Firefox 3.0 is out, grab it fast :)

Fedora Core 9 impressions

After using Fedora Core 9 for some time I feel that I have the right to wine a little bit.

Firefox 3 - first impressions

Firefox Release Candidate 1 is available for download and I decided to give it a go. My first impressions are quite positive - performance is must better on the same machine, the design has been improved and they have added quite a few usability features.

Gmail and IMAP

Looks like IMAP support has been added to GMail. More details at Google help center

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