The following is a list of different icon libraries, I often use when developing web - and mobile solutions:

• Pictos
• Helveticons
• Glyphish

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Now I'm both a Mac and a Windows user, and when I'm in the command prompt on my Windows machine, I can't stop typing "ls" instead of "dir" to list directories.

Luckily I found this great (and very simple) tip at http://allinthehead.com/retro/131/dir-vs-ls, on how to map the key combination "ls" to "dir".

1. Open a new text file, type: dir
2. Save as ls.bat in C:\Windows\System32\

The only thing is, that this tip does not map dir options such as the wildcard (*) parameter.

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I am looking forward to try out my new man-purse from Tom Bihn equiped with iPad pocket and everything.

So far, I am able to fit everything inside that I got in my existing Tausche messenger bag, but it is half the size.

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using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
private string SerializeJsonString(string input)
{
  JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
  return serializer.Serialize(input);
}

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When in need of a fancy AJAX loading GIF animation, I always seem to find what I need here:

http://www.ajaxload.info/

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Install PIL

I had some problems getting the testbed unit testing framework up-and-running (see my StackOverflow entry), but it turned out I was missing Python Imaging Library (or PIL).

Instructions on how to install it can be found here.

Fix the "No ssl package found" warning

In order to remove the warning "No ssl package found. urlfetch will not be able to validate SSL certificates", you must install ssl:

Download the ssl package here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssl

cd ~/Downloads
tar zxvf ssl-1.15.tar.gz
cd ssl-1.1
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

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I found this link on how to make a Python script executable on Unix systems (including Mac OS X):

http://effbot.org/pyfaq/how-do-i-make-a-python-script-executable-on-unix.htm

This saves me the time when executing e.g. my run test scripts.

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Here is a nice little tip to reference files located in Visual Studio project directory, when running the project from within Visual Studio.

Use the following code:

string path = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, 
  @"..\..\Test.xml");

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The following is helpfull little tip to create shortcuts to commonly used applications when working in the command prompt.

sub="C:\Program Files\Sublime Text\sublimetext.exe" $*
ie="C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /k doskey /macrofile=c:\doskey

Loading doskey automatically with CMD
DOSKEY – set shortcuts for DOS commands

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