Ok I had to do it. This is a lot of fun and can be used to pass some time. Check out ElfYourself.com, and Elf Yourself :) Send your own ElfYourself eCards...

Being a user group leader (Bartlesville .NET User Group) I get a lot of messages for recruiters looking for jobs. Given the current market situation I like to pass these on. This one looks pretty interesting. If you are interested give Darbi a call and let him know I sent you: Know anyone (maybe you) who might be interested in the following position? It is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is a direct hire position with a great company. If you are interested or know someone who is, send me a...

I just read the MSDN article on the Visual Round Trip Analyzer. This tool is awesome for finding bottlenecks in your web applications. It also allows you to see where your expensive download points are. With this tool I discovered that if I put a parameter after my large javascripts, such as JQuery, I can set the content expiration in the headers for 1 year. Then any time I need to change the javascript file (also works with images, css, etc...) the browser will then treat the file as new and redownload...

Ok, as a Web Developer I am interested in Google Chrome. I really was having issues getting their download to work. I finally got it to work in Firefox using this link: http://dl.google.com/update... Enjoy

So I stumbled upon a cool new utility for web testing called Browser Shots. Browser shots will provide screen shots of the URL you send it in many different browsers. The full list of browsers can be seen here: As you can see from the image, you have the ability to select from multiple OS's and their browsers as well as set the Screen Size, Color Depth, whether Javascript is off or on, whether Java is off or on, and whether Flash is installed. This application is free, however you do have to wait...

I found a new Twitter toy today. It is called TweetMyPage. It is not an application that needs an installer. You setup your settings and TweetMyPage gives you a javascript you add to your bookmarks. When you are reading a page you want to Twitter, you click on your TweetMyPage bookmark and it will ask you for your Twitter user id and password. Once you give it your credentials it will tweet a message similar to the following: Reading (http://linktoarticle) title of article. Currently TweetMyPage...