Ernst Wolthaus

How many accounts do you have?

• Hotmail account
• Gmail account
• Business email account
• Private email account
• etc.

And you've also got some accounts for websites and on-line forums:

• Codeproject
• Your own website (maintanance)
• Ebay
• etc.

So, do you use the same username/password for all these accounts? Off course not, that would be a security hazard... (ahum).

Now, here's the perfect tool to keep track of all those username/passwords: KeePass.
You can add any kind of account: internet, windows, Network, Email. You name it!

The database behind it is nicely encripted (AES and Twofish) so nobody can touch your private data.
A very nice feature is it doesn't need installing so you can place the whole thing on a USB stick and take your account info anywhere!

I recently noticed this site about firewalls and getting around them.
Pretty nifty if you want to reach you PC at home.

Or maybe you can use it as learning material about protocols... :)

WSDL Tool
A collegue of mine, Erwyn van der Meer, pointed to a nice and usefull WSDL tool from ThinkTecture. If you have a WSDL file, you can use this WSDL to generate the webservice code so you start testing before the actual webservice is on-line!

Usefull stuff
At IDesign, there's a lot of usefull stuff on this page.
You should really take some time to browse through the page, because there's always something that you can use.

Rocking tool
Take a look at this tool: ASP.NET Development Helper.
Combining serverside components with clientside components, this tool could be really usefull for your web projects.
It gives you all kinds of info on a webpage like debug- and trace info. Good test tool!

Enjoy!

This is a good read: Making Wrong Code Look Wrong by Joel Spolsky.

I especially like his arguments for the (original) Hungarian Notation.
(If you feel like throwing up, just by reading “Hungarian Notation“, you really should read this article!)

Joel writes excellent articles on writing software, subscribe to his feed, you won't regret it.