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An uber cool use of web services, Amazon has released the “Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)” web service, it’s in limited beta right now. Check it out.

A Spec-tacular Failure - A rant by Jeff Atwood on why the ID3 spec totally suxx. Google Code Project Hosting - A replacement for Sourceforge? - A good overview of google code base.

Check out PDF Online. This blog talks about the site http://www.pdfonline.com, I think it’s a very nice way to get your google rank up plus serves as a good marketing channel for the actual conversion product.

In our application we generate web service proxies at runtime itself using something similar to this. Initially we were generating the assembly in memory by using ICodeCompiler interface and setting CompilerParameters.

Getting system level access from a limited account in WinXp - This video shows how you can get “system” level access very easily on a WinXp box. Looks totally possible. The basic crux is that we run a scheduled task that launches command prompt, since scheduler is run by the system account, we get a command prompt that is owned by system!

I have been really frustrated with the current web based editor that comes with WordPress. One of the biggest problems was the time it took to write anything and secondly the lack of a spell checker.

Death of the command line - A.P Lawerence puts down his thoughts on the command line. Frankly my head is so full of other CS stuff that I could barely fit in command lines and their arguments.

I have been using WinDirStat for quite some time now to visualize my hard disk usage and to clean up when disk space was low. {.imagelink} But it was just yesterday that I realized that the cool visualization that is used by WinDirStat actually has a name “Treemaps” and has a lot of interesting history behind it.

I recently moved into my new house and wanted to setup a wireless LAN for my home. So I read through some sites on how to setup a wireless LAN and for the router I decided to buy the Linksys WRT45GS.

Patrick has released version 2.0 of his absolutely cool code analyzer NDepend .The VisualNDepend tool is looking slick and Code Query Lanaguage looks damn interesting. Also be sure to take a look at the metrics that are generated by NDepend, very nice.