Twitter Mosaic: Make Art from Twitter (and then buy it!)

Here is a great little tool for showing all your twitter followers on your blog.

Get your twitter mosaic here.

Twitter Mosaic: Make Art from Twitter (and then buy it!)

The Wolfman movie Lunar Phases Widget | Widgets Lab

The Wolfman movie Lunar Phases Widget | Widgets Lab

Muzicons.com Simple mp3 widget

This is a great tool for posting music on websites.

Muzicons.com Simple mp3 widget

HootSuite’s keyword Twitter column embed | Widgets Lab

 I think this widget would be fun to stick on my blogs.

HootSuite’s keyword Twitter column embed | Widgets Lab

F Sharp (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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F# (pronounced F Sharp) is a multi-paradigm programming language, targeting the .NET Framework, that encompasses functional programming as well as imperative object-oriented programming disciplines. It is a variant of ML and is largely compatible with the OCaml implementation. F# was initially developed by Don Syme at Microsoft Research but is now being developed at Microsoft Developer Division and will be distributed as a fully supported language in the .NET Framework and Visual Studio as part of Visual Studio 2010.^[2]

F Sharp (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Main Page - MonoDevelop

There does exist an IDE for creating applications that run on Mac OS X, Unix, and Linux thant use the Microsoft .Net Framework and it's Open Source!

Main Page - MonoDevelop

IronScheme

Turns out that there is version of the Scheme programming language that runs on the Microsoft .Net Framework!

IronScheme

Website To Visit: IronPython.net

IronPython has just had a website launched to support users !
IronPython.net

Free File Hosting - File Stay 2 Years After Last Download

Free File Hosting - File Stay 2 Years After Last Download

Automated Restarts Or Shutdown

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Automated Restarts Or Shutdown

Visual Studio 2010 - Dynamic Programing in Visual Basic: IronPython - Mike McIntyre's .NET Journal - vbCity

Here is an alternative for running Python scripts in Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 - Dynamic Programing in Visual Basic: IronPython - Mike McIntyre's .NET Journal - vbCity

The Visual Basic Team : Walkthrough: Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic 10.0 and C# 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

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I've just downloaded Visual Studio .Net 2010 Beta 2 and I like this IDE! It took me several hours to download it all.

Then I downloaded a version of IronPython to use specifically with VS 2010 Betat 2. I also found a link to the Visual Basic Team blog that put out exercises of how to test out IronPython and Silverlight in Visual Studio in both Visual Basic .Net (VB.Net) and C#,  The IronPython example shows how to run Python scripts from VB.Net and C# console applications. It worked just like they said it would.
Then I wanted to test out the exercises I found in the IronPython In Action book in this version of Visual Studio .Net 2010. I wanted to run the Windows Forms  and the WPF examples.The things although VS 2010 is expected to support IronPython it's not fully implemented yet. Hopefully everything will be in place when VS 2010 drops in March 2010



The Visual Basic Team : Walkthrough: Dynamic Programming in Visual Basic 10.0 and C# 4.0 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

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Introduction Video for Google Chrome

One day, I'm gonna try Chrome!




Introduction Video for Google Chrome

Google Goggles - Use pictures to search the web

I just saw this application profiled on Attack of the Show. It's app for the Android OS that allows you take a picture from your phone and perform Internet searches based on the pictures on your phone! I want to get this!

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Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview.

Google Goggles - Use pictures to search the web

TestDriven.Net Home

Here is a cool tool that allows programmers to test .Net programs using automation.

TestDriven.Net Home

List of emoticons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here is a page from Wikipedia giving the text-based codes for emoticons. This is a great resource!

List of emoticons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

How to Add Emoticons or Smiley in Twitter for powerful Tweets | Binary Head

Here is an article giving 3 options of adding emoticons in Twitter. I prefer Number 2!

How to Add Emoticons or Smiley in Twitter for powerful Tweets | Binary Head

Tools and IDEs

I found a great post by Michael Foord, who wrote IronPython In Action, who runs down the best Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing IronPython programs. It turns out that IronPython Studio is not as great an IDE as I thought. Therefore I believe the best solution is to use SharpDevelop in the meantime before Visual studio 2010's official release that will completely support IronPython.

Tools and IDEs

Blend Overview Product Information | Microsoft® Expression®

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 Microsoft has a product that allows you use a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editor as a front end for generating GUIs for .Net Windows desktop and Web applications, including Sliverlight. It allows you to drag and drop and design without having to worry about coding. Then you can export the results as XAML and then use Python, VB.Net, C#, and or Silverlight to bring it to life. Unfortunately, It's not free but seems necessary.

Blend Overview Product Information | Microsoft® Expression®
Microsoft Expression Blend

IronPython Studio

God has answered my prayer. There does exist an Iron Python Integrated Development Environment  (IDE) that can run either apart from Visual Studio or Integrated with Visual Studio 2009. Sweetness! I'm using it and loving it.

IronPython Studio

Add Twitter Retweet Button to Blogger | Blog Know How

Here is a great article about how to add Retweet buttons to your blog post so that poeple can tweet the post easily and you can count the number of time times it's been tweeted. 

Add Twitter Retweet Button to Blogger | Blog Know How

CodeProject: Service Hiding. Free source code and programming help

In this article, we continue investigation in the field of hiding application in the system. This theme was started by Ivan Romanenko and Sergey Popenko in the article “Driver to Hide Processes and Files”. Our aim is to discover the ways of application hiding in the system for the wide audience. The approaches described can be used in the Corporate Security systems development – to hide system agents and prevent switching them off by users. Information can also be useful for those who research harmful software - to build the adequate answer for the threats.

CodeProject: Service Hiding. Free source code and programming help

I've Been Bitten By...Iron Python.

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I've been evaluating the merits of using the Iron Python implementation of Python. I've been reading Iron Python In Action and I am convinced that Iron Python mis what I need to concentrate on because:

1. I can very easy use everything I know about the .Net Framework, VB.Net, and C#
2. I can run Iron Python in Visual Studio
3. I can reference ESRI's ArcObjects libraries in  Visual Studio and Iron Python.

So far I have learn through going through Iron Python In Action that i can compile a form as a DLL in Visual Studio and then use the form as an object in Iron Python. This is awesome because it much easier to use Visual Studio rather than using manually using the .Net Framework or using some other Python GUI library, I aslo found out that Python is great a making automated testing tools for software. Even more impr4essive such techniques are available for VB.Net and C#


TestDriven.Net
Typemock
NUnit

Iron Python In Action is probably the best Python book i have ever pickled up because it also explains a lot of not just Python but also about .Net