Stone Coast Web Design Blog

I work from home full-time and I often need to print and sign documents and then scan them back to as a PDF.  There are many solutions you can pay for but I found a free one which involves iCopy and CutePDF.

iCopy: http://icopy.sourceforge.net/?page_id=40 

CutePDF: http://www.cutepdf.com/

Fiddler and Firebug

http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/ and http://getfirebug.com/

Resharper Productivity Tool for Visual Studio

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/index.html

C# <—> VB Converter

http://tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com/index.htm

Web Conferencing and Desktop Sharing

http://www.mikogo.com/

Code Snippets

http://snipplr.com/ and to use them in VS http://www.snipitpro.com/

Screen Capture Software

http://www.screenpresso.com/
http://hyperionics.com/

File Sharing

https://www.dropbox.com/

Code Versioning

http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/

RegEx

http://www.regexbuddy.com/

Text Editor

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Brainstorming/Collaboration Software

http://www.xmind.net/

I just learned about these free online courses from Sal Khan. http://www.khanacademy.org

I was asked to find a product that would check for broken links on our company’s public Web site and came across Xenu’s Link Sleuth which is an amazing product.  It’s free and incredibly fast.  It also produces a nice report at the end of it’s testing.

I found this software along with many other great suggestions on Gizmo’s List.

This will restrict your search for "datareader" to only the domain name "microsoft.com". The end result is to target your search in a way that is similar to using the internal search on a web site.

datareader site:microsoft.com 

One web comic I commonly read is xkcd. It is a great comic that has a lot of good computer as well as just nerdy jokes. It has a great comic about SQL injection attacks and why you need to sanitize your database inputs. This is a lesson in what to not name your child.