Microsoft has just released a plugin for Visual Studio called Visual Studio Achievements. It is exactly what it says. An achievment system for Visual Studio.
It checks for achievements while you code 
This is definitely a plugin worth taking a look at since it makes everyday coding kinda funny and lets you explore new ways of using Visual Studio.
Most TV commercials simply suck because they are annoying. I doubt anyone will argue with me about that. But then there are clips which are funny and so one likes to watch them. And then there simply is beauty. Found this Porsche commercial and I think it’s the most beautiful commercial I have ever seen. And it’s neither annoying nor funny. Simply perfect.
Anonymous – ‘The heroes of the sandbox’ as I like to call them — has stricken again. Operation Blitzkriegis aimed at people and organization supporting Nazism. Well yes this might sound good at first glance but the only way to fight political extremes (either left or right) is political education. Locking down some websites or publishing some names and addresses won’t stop the ideology. And of course there is the freedom of speech. Yes this would be the first thing to be destroyed if these people would take the lead of a country. However fighting fire with fire never worked and never will. Or like Evelyn Beatrice Hall said
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
(yes that was not Voltaire). She nailed it with that. To destroy this ideology one must show these people how wrong they are. One must not simply forbid their opinion.
Oh and btw: Happy new year
Did you know that you can create a new folder in the Windows Explorer by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N ? Well I didn’t. I just found out by accident.
If I just knew about this earlier. Creating folders using the mouse is just so much pain…
Here is another tool that I found useful and felt like sharing with you: WriteMonkey. It’s a writing application with a stripped down user interface. It’s the perfect tool if you simply want to get things done. Most of the time you will only see your text. No fancy windows, effects, buttons, or anything else. Just your plain text. Below is a screenshot of this blog post written in WriteMonkey. The default color theme is matrix-style green on black but you can change that. Yes even to black on white but that is too mainstream 
Since I found it I use it almost exclusively for writing assignments or stuff like that. In combination with LaTeX it simply rocks. You just type your text into WriteMonkey and do the markup later
I just stumbled upon the most amazing picture I have ever seen:
The picture was taken in February this year in Cairo showing Christian Egyptians protecting Muslims while praying. Since quoting this comment describes best what I think about this, I’ll just do so: ”I’m an atheist and I find this beautiful.”
The world would definitely be a better place if there was more tolerance like in this picture.
One of the things that really annoy me when using the Zend Framework is that I need to create my models one by one manually. Since I already have the database designed and created on the database server I wished there was a way to automate this process.
And finally I found something: A little tool called ‘zend-db-model-generator‘. It takes away all the pain you have when manually typing your model and saves A LOT of time. Additionally the created model classes offer some handy functionality.
Yes it’s been quite silence in the past few weeks. It’s not my fault. Blame Bethesda for making Skyrim. Excellent game btw.
So when I’m done with the game I’ll be more active. Promised
Anonymous just posted some information on operation Darknet. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read the article.
Some FireFox developers gave them a certificate which they could use to sign their honey pot. Seriously? This has gone too far. Anonymous is just of bunch of random people and they are giving away certificates to them?
Actually this has destroyed ALL trust I ever had in Mozilla. If I would be using FireFox I couldn’t trust any plugin anymore that it doesn’t sniff sensible information.
FireFox just died for me. It was was good browser but it already was going down.
I just released a new version of csx. It adds the possibily to reference namespaces in code snippets. Simply put a // NS:name.space anywhere in your code.
Also the assembly is now build using “Any CPU” so it runs as a 32bit application on a 32bit system and as a 64bit application on 64bit systems.
If you already have installed csx simply run “csx -u” from the command line or if you don’t have it installed simply download it from the downloads section.
