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Periodically I cause havoc for my development machine and this fix comes in handy.
Great list of icon sets for web applications.
While trying to optimize a MySQL query, I ran into a problems trying to avoid MySQL and disk caching which was making it impossible to accurately benchmark two different queries. Fortunately, I was running MySQL on a Centos box and this enabled me to run two quick commands that provided a "fresh" enviornment for each query benchmark.
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
service mysql restart
The first command clears the disk cache. The second restarts MySQL. Now, each query can be evaluated on its merits and not how well MySQL and Centos try to optimize performance.
This site is a life saver when creating that special color-coordinated animated gif file. The gif's work on the web and with a PictureBox control work in Windows Forms as well.
This articles provides some examples of working with Microsoft's new document standards using .Net libraries.
Here's the link the Microsoft library:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6E744E5-36E9-45F5-8D8C-331DF206E0D0&displaylang=en
I have started using the Mac keyboard on my Windows PC for development. However, PrtSc and the alt keys can be an annoyance. This article describes how to fix both issues.
This seems to be the starting point for developing firefox add-ons.