As much as people talk about what a great product Firefox is, I still have it crash on me several times a day. Fortunately it’s usually not a big deal, and yes I understand that it could be caused by the extensions I have. BUT STILL crashing shouldn’t be the norm. I think that I have been too conditioned to think it’s ok for a program to crash as long as I like everything else.

Anyway, tips to speed up Firefox:

• Enter about:config in the Firefox address bar to edit your browser configuration.
• Set network.http.pipelining to true. (You can toggle it by double clicking on it.
• Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true.
• Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to something bigger than 4. I set it to 10.
• Create a new setting called nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it to 0. To create a new setting, right click on the page, select New and then select Integer (since this setting is a number).

With the standards revolution in full swing, it seems that a lot of sites look at tables as pure evil. But you are actually supposed to use tables for tabular data. I know it sounds crazy, but information that is supposed to be in a table, actually looks good in a table.

Enter Setting the Table. A very well written and comprehensive look at tables and some of the things you can do to style them. One thing in particular was the col element that lets you style an entire column. Very cool, although I thought I read somewhere the IE doesn’t support this attribute (big surprise). I’ll have to check on that

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This is a great article about how you can get JUnit up and running with the Eclipse IDE. I am using Eclipse at work and the more and more that I use it the more impressed I am with its power and usability. And use cases are the best for taking some of the guesswork out of coding.

Note: The idea for this came from aspalliance.com. I’ve converted the code to C# and added features,comments and instructions.

First we need to import the System.IO namespace. Do so by adding this line to the top of your page.

Now we need to build the unordered list that will display the pictures

    < %
    /*
    The Enumerator allows you to loop through the collection
 object without complicated code
    */
    IDictionaryEnumerator myEnum= pictures.GetEnumerator();
    //We'll use this int to control the number of columns
    int i=1;
    while(myEnum.MoveNext()){
        /*
        Each picture is given a link that is contained
in the Key. This will allow you to click on a pic
and get the full size version. The value is a link
 to our thumbnail generating page which
shrinks the image for a thumbnail
        */
        Response.Write("
");
        Response.Write("");
        Response.Write("

");
        i++;
    }
    %>

We now need a page that shrinks our images. All we do is create a page that returns an actual image, we can then reference this page within image tags!

<%@ Page Language="C#" Debug="true" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.IO"%>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Drawing"%>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Drawing.Imaging"%>

This page serves as the source for the images on our photo album page. It takes the path of the big picture and writes the smaller image to the Response
Output stream. Save this file as getThumb.aspx and place it in the same directory
as your photo album page.

There you have it. No longer do you need to painstakingly add each picture manually to your webpage to amaze your friends. Instead, justdrag and drop the picture into the designated folder and your off. Modifications to allow you to change directories or to recurse through the
given directories will be left for your own imagination.
You could also modify this code to display other file types, the choices are endless!

Enjoy!