[the] Code Girl

• Top 5ive Items to Always Buy Generic (Top 5: Personal Finance) | SmartMoney.com
  ARE YOU A CONNOISSEUR of generic products? If not, you should be — at least when it comes to some items.

  While some brand-name products may taste better than their store-label counterparts, others are premium only in price. According to a 2005 study

  (tags: lifehack)
• :: LAPTOP Magazine • Five Tips For Better Notebook Battery Life ::
  When you purchase your notebook, charge the battery to 100 percent, discharge it completely, and then fully charge it to 100 percent again to help the battery remember exactly how much electrical charge it can hold. From then on, you’ll never need to co
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• How to Get an Upgrade to First Class - WikiHow
  Have you always wanted to fly first class, but never had the money? There are some other, roundabout ways you can get in those plushy, spacious seats. With a bit of luck, you might find yourself sitting on the luxurious lap of first class!
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• Text* Snippets: TextDrive Snippets courtesy of Peter Coopers handy little app
  Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world (or not, you can keep them private!)
  (tags: dev programming perl javascript linux)
• 1153076801763.jpg (JPEG Image, 800×600 pixels)
  a herd of wild guinea pigs
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• Errorik.com - SpellBound in Firefox 1.5
  SpellBound is an awesome spell check extension for the Firefox web browser. Unfortunately with the release of Firefox 1.5 SpellBound broke. And with the developer now on the Mozilla team and working on integrating the spell checking directly into Firefox
  (tags: firefox)
• Get Rich Slowly » Learning to Eat More Meals at Home
  Cooking at home is an excellent way to save money. But if you’re accustomed to dining out for most meals, it can be a difficult transition. Fortunately, there’s plenty of help available on the web.
  (tags: cooking lifehack)

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Sabifoo :: Instant Possibility
This is one of the neatest things I’ve seen lately. You’re already online with some Instant Messaging client anyway, so why not use it to store random notes?

• Why Nagging Doesn’t Work
  If you are at your wit’s end because your spouse leaves the bathroom in chaos, never cleans out the bathtub or shower, lets things slide, throws clothes on the floor, conveniently forgets to take out the trash, doesn’t follow through with promises to do h
  (tags: lifehack)
• Getting To Done: Spring Clean-out 2: The Digital Version - Lifehacker
  I try to keep digital clutter under control all year long, but the first step is starting from a clean base. Here are some ways to give yourself a digital “information enema.”
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• Personal Productivity Blog : Training Yourself to Work at Home
  i know i need all the help I can get…..been telecommuting just once a week for the last 3 years and i have a really,really hard time staying focused on work
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• Cloning a HDD
  I am using this method (smbmount & dd) right this minute to (hopefully) grab as much as I can off my laptop harddrive that just blew up for no good reason, with no warning. I have multiple partitions, including FAT32,NTFS, and ext3. Luckily ‘dd’ doesnt
  (tags: linux howto)
• Javascript Toolbox: Reusable Libraries And Scripts Plus Information
  This site is intended to be a repository of code and reusable libraries which address common needs that many web developers encounter. The code found here is based on standards but also tries to be backwards-compatible for browsers which don’t support the
  (tags: javascript)

I noticed yesterday morning that OnlyWire finally released some site updates. They resolved a few of my issues with them. There is now a “My Account” section where you can change your password yourself, no more emailing them the password you want to use. They responded to my message about Spurl finally, saying it wasn’t broken and that i should check my login/password. I did; they work just fine when i log directly in to the site. Waiting to see if they respond to my message telling them this.

They also added a logo and favorite icon to jazz things up a bit. The “bookmark & email” button in their bookmarklet still does not work (in firefox) i get the JS error “d.email has no properties”. They finally updated the frames version of their ’save page’ bookmarklet so you can

• mark the url as private
• see a list of your tags and click on them to auto fill the form
• choose which of the services you want to post the link to

It is definitely interesting that all these changes were made the day after I wrote the original post

OnlyWire: could you please change the main page (after a user logs in) to NOT show their various accounts’ passwords in plaintext?

• perl.com: Five Tips for .NET Programming in Perl
  There is much more to properly dealing with .NET services than can be addressed in a single article. The goal here is to head off some of the more frequently encoutered problems, and let you as the developer focus on more important issues.

  One of the b

  (tags: webservices perl .net)
• WSDL::Generator - Generate wsdl file automagically - search.cpan.org
  WSDL::Generator - Generate wsdl file automagically
  (tags: perl webservices)
• REST
  This page provides links to a number of works on using and describing REST services
  (tags: webservices rest)
• Lightstreamer :: Server Monitor Console
  The Server Monitor Console displays real-time state information pertaining to Lightstreamer Server itself (e.g. memory usage, thread management, events, bandwidth, connections, etc.).

  All values are real, updated in real time and regard the Lightstream

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• Alex Bosworth’s Weblog: 10 Places You Must Use Ajax
  It’s now officially annoying to use web apps that haven’t replaced clunky html functionality with peppy Ajax goodness.

  Here are places Ajax should now be required in a web application:

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• Catalyst::Manual::Cookbook - Cooking with Catalyst
  XMLRPC

  Unlike SOAP, XMLRPC is a very simple (and imo elegant) web-services protocol, exchanging small XML messages like these:

  Request:

  POST /api HTTP/1.1
  TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
  Connection: TE, close
  Accept: text/xml
  Accep

  (tags: webservices perl)
• http://search.cpan.org/uploads.rdf
  RSS feed of recently updated CPAN modules that includes module descriptions
  (tags: perl dev rss)
• perl.com: What every Perl programmer needs to know about .NET
  (tags: perl dev)

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