Here are some goofy clips I stumbled upon. It would be kinda nerdy to dedicate this site to programming alone so here are some funny streaming vids!
While going over my course for the MCTS exam. I created a simple application that monitors the filesystem using the .NET 2.0 using the FileSystemWatcher class. Never knew this could be done that easy, here's what it looks like.
The application monitors directories (and their subdirectories) for creations, changes and deletions. The source code and executable are available for download right here!
Edit: made some small changes to the code, removing unnecessairy usings etc. and some minor GUI changes like an option to clear the results. [24/02/08]
The old blog of RSDownloader has now moved to this location, on this site you will now also find the following:
And, owyes 
, The new RSDownloader version, 1.1, will be released mid august and will contain some long awaited features such as:
More features might be added if there are specific request, if you have a feature request, make a comment on this blog entry!
If your interested in design patterns for your (web)applications, you should definitely check out dofactory.com. This site has free handson labs and examples for an armada of design patterns (particularly the GoF patterns), in VB.NET/C#. There are also examples of Ajax design (anti-)patterns available on the site. Really useful stuff!
Web 2.0, is probably the the biggest IT buzzword in the past year. Since definitions for Web 2.0 are hardly around, let’s just call it a nice mixture of both technology and content tinted with a blend of interactivity that is sure to (at least I think so) be the future of the internet.
Sceptisists are always around, here’s a nifty site that laughs at the way some webdevelopers implement Web 2.0 techniques in their own webpages. You can have your own webpage rated and it’ll be added to the site database (that’s good marketing!).
This site seems to be only 25% Web 2.0 compliant, looks like I’ve got someting to work on
Classic story. You’re just done formatting and you want everything to stay nice and tidy, especially your desktop. Just after a few weeks, things start getting all messed up and you can hardly see a glimpse of your nifty background. What I used to do is create a folder named ‘junk’ on my desktop and drag all the unused items into it. I thought I was the only one that was this lazy but I caught some friends of mine doing the exact same thing. Anyways, I came across a website that offers some handy wallpapers that’ll help organize your desktop icons, now check out my new desktop
This way I can order my icons by type, for instance applications, documents, images, folders, … Now let’s see if I can maintain this
More of these wallpapers can be found here (http://antbag.com/desktops/)!
Personally I like to add cover art to all my downloaded albums. The way I do this is to simply Google image search the name and artist of the album. Then I save the largest file as folder.jpg in my album directory. Because doing all of this manually is pretty time consuming, I took some hours to write a small program (with some basic threading & a neat Task pattern which I always wanted to try ) that does this for me but also offers me a choice in which cover art I’d like to save. A screenshot:
Source code is available on demand…
Edit - May 10th 2008 : If you are building a similar application you might want to look at the MSN Live Search API’s to do this, it’s easier, faster and more stable than the old Google Image Search API I used here, which was written by someone at codeproject. You can read my post which contains some sample code etc. here.