Expand your library for free. Wow, this is nice a nice online tech library of free tech related books. Good resource for your bookmark collection:

http://www.freetechbooks.com/index.php

I stumbled across an update for this "API" in my travels. It is a very interesting approach to web application development. Its not so much a technology as it is an approach. Jesse Garret sums it up very nicely:

"Take a look at Google Suggest. Watch the way the suggested terms update as you type, almost instantly. Now look at Google Maps. Zoom in. Use your cursor to grab the map and scroll around a bit. Again, everything happens almost instantly, with no waiting for pages to reload.

Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on the Web."

There is a .Net (of course) implementation here: http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/ with examples:

C# -- http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/csharpsample/default.aspx
VB.Net -- http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/vbnetsample/default.aspx

Updated link (simple implementation):
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/050526.htm

Super hot technology these days. Not sure what the difference is from ealier iterations of clustering projects like beowulf, PVM, and mosix. I played with all of these things a few years back. I am interested in seeing what the difference is from that and "grid computing." I'll be taking a look in my "free" time. Anyway heres a link to a .Net implementation for developing grid computing applications. Also has a nice intro to grid computing in the documentation.

http://www.alchemi.net/index.html

One other side note: How is this different from some of the agent frameworks (like JADE or ADK) too????

I was just looking at my blog and noticed how many posts are about .Net. I think I have been assimilated. Anyway... here is an opensource C# repository. Some nice stuff there.

http://csharp-source.net/

I think I am becoming a .Net Junkie. Either way here's a good reference for regular expressions in .Net:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/022603-1.aspx

Also a couple of good tools to help with regular expression development:

Regulator: http://regex.osherove.com/
Expresso: http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm

Sounds like a bit of a misnomer in the VB context, but it can be extremely useful. Here is a link to a short MS tutorial on how to do it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet09272002.asp

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IM Bots have caught my interest this morning as I spend a significant time IMing or connected to IM (with my new Treo). My mind is racing with the possiblities. IM would make a very nice messaging platform for standard applications. I am thinking about BAM applications with integrated notifications. Alot of this stuff is written in Perl. Either way here is some links to stuff:
MSN Bot http://www.pscode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=50887&lngWId=1
MSN Bot Service http://nice.27h.com/index_en.htm
.Net Library http://members.home.nl/b.geertsema/dotMSN/
IM Messiah Code http://www.hostultra.com/~livebots/sourcecodes.html

Tutorials and resources:
http://www.wiredbots.com/tutorial.html
http://interconnected.org/googlematic/
http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/resources/projects.php
http://www.bot-depot.com/forums/

Still trying to find some sample AIM bot code for .Net.... Ahah! found it VB6 only it seems:
http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=43691&lngWId=1
Although AIM kinda sux because people just warn the crap out of yoru bot disabling it.

A friend sent me this this morning. Looks very promising. It is a cross platform report writing tool for PHP. Seems very interesting but I have not tried it yet.

http://www.agata.org.br

With SQL Server 2005 MS is changing thier pricing and distribution scheme. It may be worthwhile for developer to embrace the MSDE 2000 version. There are admin tools available very cheaply or FREE, for it here:

http://www.msde.biz/msdeadmin/msdeadmin.htm

a more expensive tool: http://www.teratrax.com/tdm/index.html

Another free Query tool: http://www.toadsoft.com/toadsqlserver/toad_sqlserver.htm

Another slightly expensive tool, but looks nice: http://www.valesoftware.com/products-msde-manager.php

And a very expensive tool (NOTE: I used their managers for Open Source DBs like MySQL and Postgres and they are VERY VERY nice): http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/mssql

Nice Looking free tool: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/dbamgr.html

A very nice list I found after writing this can be found here: http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2442

If you want to know the limitations of MSDE 2000 click to read more
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Free online academic paper bookmarker. It looks interesting I may try it. I have been using netsnippets and really like that but it is local to my machine. I am thinking I may use my gmail account and a nice online bookmarker and write something that syncs my bookmarks to gmail.... hmmmm.

http://www.citeulike.org/