Email Tracker

This site uses techniques that spammers use to allow you to track your email and know when it was opened, forwarded, etc.

CSS Page layout

This is a simple layout for the typical header, right/left nav, and centered content using css. Next time I do a page from scratch, I am going to ditch the tables and use this.

Google Maps blogs

Here are 2 blogs that just cover cool google maps hacks.

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
http://coolgooglemaps.blogspot.com/

these are both examples of of a blog done right. No cost, set up blog w/ blogspot, and adsense for revenue. cool google maps got a link on digg for publicity.

digg

digg is knocking slashdot off the totem pole. It's similar to slashdot except that there are no editors, the stories are choosen democratically by the users.

Process Explorer

Process Explorer is a freeware that is task manager on steroids..

First Impressions of Ruby on Rails

Lately I have heard a lot of buzz about ruby on rails. It is used by basecamp, the project management system that I like, and I have heard it mentioned by Martin Fowler and on slashdot.

First there is the ruby language. According to the Ruby Users Guide, it is "an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming." "Rails" is the web framework portion.

After watching this intro video I can see that scaffolding is a piece that genreates quite a lot of web code for you. It appears that it breaks things into the MVC pattern.

google maps

Here are links to several cool google map hacks

Project management

I recently was turned onto a cool online project management program called basecamp. My only reservation is that the data is hosted by another company and you have no control over it(I don't see an easy way to export your data either), but it's very well written and works far better than excel.

FireFox and Internet Explorer

There are differences in IE and FF that can cause problems.
I had a style on a table cell that set the width to 95% and I had a width attribute on the cell for 10%. 10% was what I wanted and IE rendered it with 10%, but FF rendered it at 95%. The issue comes down to the fact that FF implements the CSS spec, whereas IE does not.

Rich Text Editor for asp.net

I was recently tasked with finding an editor for asp.net web pages that would allow formatting, much like the editor in blogger.

I looked at the FCK Editor, but was unable to figure out the installation. In the end I used Free Text Box.