Holiday Stress Relief: Virtual bubble-wrap

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\< ![if !vml]>Virtual Bubble Wrap\< ![endif]>Pop your way to a state of bliss with Virtual Bubble Wrap. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Boing Boing] :::

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Finally, a website for Managed DirectX developers!

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Andy "ZMan" Dunn who has created a website, The Z Buffer, that's completely dedicated to Managed DirectX goodness. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"}  [InkBlog: The Random Musings of David Weller] :::

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Yeah, it is at least a little about Text entry speed

Iggy says: I wonder if anybody really cares about text entry speeds in a time when cheap scanners and great OCR technologies are widely available. I doubt there is any relationship between text entry speeds and good writing or good coding which are text intensive activities…Most good writing or …

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Delphi is on the TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2004 with 4 green up arrows!

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[Via]{style=";font-style:italic"} [Sip from the Firehose - David Intersimone "David I"]

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Unit Testing ASP.NET Code

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Scott Hanselman has a great entry on unit testing ASP.NET code by using Cassini [via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Commonality] :::

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The RESTful Web

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Joe Gregorio has a really nice column up on XML.COM: How to create a REST Protocol. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [BitWorking] :::

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Generics: .NET vs. Tiger -- Boxing Penalty Is Very Real

We're not supposed to publish benchmark numbers on beta code, so I'll just urge you to try this one on your own. A colleague of mine, a noted Java author, recently disparaged .NET's generics, saying they were “based on” work done in Java and that Java 1.5's generics and …

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Aw, dammit...

Argh! One of the drives on my main dev machine just sh*t the brick. Just as I was pondering buying one of those “one-button push” backup systems. Ironically, the drive that died had the /Program Files/ where my backup software lived. So now I'm staring at the machine, trying …

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Pens of Peril! Rome: Total Ink! Half-Stylus!

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"3 Leaf Development is putting together "Arcs of Fire"….

Check the website of the game - www.arcsoffire.com - for more (well, a little more) information…the game is to be based on a forthcoming *Tablet PC Game SDK. Very exciting, and I hope more developers will take advantage of …

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Tablet PCs help with name recognition

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"It's not going to come up with anything." That's what I thought when Lora challenged me to Google her [first]{style="font-style:italic"} name. I couldn't have been more wrong. Lora's site, WhatIsNew, is listed as the third item. In disbelief, I had to try my name, Loren. Hmm …

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