Perry Stathopoulos

The guys at Visifire have made available some really nice Silverlight 2.0 charts. These charts render beautifully with animation.

Best of all it’s open-sourced!

CSS can be a very tricky and complicated subject. Using it for layout sometimes can get hairy and quite frankly you can often get lost with so many style classes.

Here is a great link to an online CSS reference that explains the ins and outs of CSS

http://reference.sitepoint.com/css

Microsoft has released a new version of the SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer tool. The tool is from a Database Administrator’s (DBA) perspective and not from an architect nor developer’s perspective.

Check it out here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=da0531e4-e94c-4991-82fa-f0e3fbd05e63&displaylang=en

Sourcegear is offering DiffMerge for free! Kudo’s for also making it cross-platform.

The product offers diff, merge, and folder diff.

I’ve been using FreeCommander for a while now. It’s a nice file manager that is lightwieght and fast. It also supports two windows side-by-side and multiple tabs in each window. Pretty cool.

I highly recommend it.

I recently came across an interesting looking program by StarInix called Free Database Compare 2.0. The great thing is that is support Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.