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Since the markets began to tumble in 2008, governments around the world have spent almost $11 trillion bailing out failing banks and trying to repair the financial system. - Alan Dean

In CSS, pattern matching rules determine which style rules apply to elements in the document tree. These patterns, called selectors, may range from simple element names to rich contextual patterns. If all conditions in the pattern are true for a certain element, the selector matches the element. - Alan Dean

It was CSS Specificity calculations that really opened my eyes. [http://ff.im/73wuu] - MikeAmundsen

The shortlink relation allows webmasters to specify a short link to use for the resource, thereby avoiding having to obtain one from a potentially unreliable third party URL shortening service such as tinyurl.com. - Alan Dean

The second time you write a piece of complicated code it will work much better than the first time. Especially if there are a few years inbetween and the original code was in production and you had to live with its flaws. Sometimes you have to write it a third or fourth time to really get it right. - Alan Dean

Execute the following Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL datetime and date formatting scripts in Management Studio Query Editor to demonstrate the multitude of temporal data formats available in SQL Server. - Alan Dean

Windows® Virtual PC (WVPC) is a client virtualization software, which can be used on Windows 7 to create multiple Virtual Machines (VMs), each running a different operating system (OS). - Alan Dean

The following reference library defines the functions required for XPath 2.0, XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0. - Alan Dean

I'm loving the Windows 7 "Boot to VHD" lifestyle. This isn't Virtual Machines, to be clear, and it's not Dual Booting. It's Boot to VHD. - Alan Dean

Fantastic! - Alan Dean

Hint: it's freedom from the British! :-) - Robert Scoble

I'd be slightly worried if the BBC had to explain to its viewers what Americans are celebrating on the 4th of July. - Paul Grav

Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/FitNesse tests. It provides developers with a quick overview of the most important fixture types and concepts for agile acceptance testing using the FIT framework. For each fixture type, this document explains the table format and fixture class structure and provides advice when to use and when not to use it. Each example is accompanied by the source code for Java, .NET and Python FIT implementations, in a form that can be easily copied and used as a template for similar fixtures. - Alan Dean

I’ve been attracted to, and trying out, various distributed source control tools for the last two years, and have come to the conclusion that the most likely “winner” is Git. Git does a great many things right, good progress is being made in the few areas it is weak, and it has rapidly growing popularity. There are many web sites with extensive information about using Git, learning Git, Git integration, and more. - Alan Dean

GitHub uses public-key cryptography and SSH to authenticate you during git’s push and pull commands. In order for GitHub to identify you, you must provide us with your SSH public key. The rest of this page contains instructions on how to locate or create a set of SSH keys. - Alan Dean

In my very recent previous post I said "mocking and stubbing easier than ever", but actually forgot to mention the stubbing part - Alan Dean

Moq is intended to be simple to use, strong typed (no magic strings!, and therefore full compiler-verified and refactoring-friendly) and minimalistic (while still fully functional!). - Alan Dean

This page provides instructions on how you can flash your Android Dev Phone with a factory Android platform system image and associated radio image. From here, you can also download the actual image binaries, as well as relevant tools to help you flash the images to your device. - Alan Dean

Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens. - Alan Dean

TortoiseGit The coolest Interface to (Git) Version Control - Alan Dean

Historically, Git on Windows was only officially supported using Cygwin. To help make a native Windows version, this project was started, based on the fork. - Alan Dean

This article demonstrates how to convert a string to uppercase, lowercase, or title (or proper) case. Although you can use methods of the String class to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase, you must use a method in the TextInfo class of the System.Globalization namespace to convert a string to title case. The String class does not include a built-in method to convert a string to title case. - Alan Dean

The WAVE Firefox toolbar provides a mechanism for running WAVE reports directly within Firefox. Because the toolbar reports runs entirely within your web browser, no information is sent to the WAVE server. This ensures 100% private and secure accessibility reporting. The toolbar can check intranet, password-protected, dynamically generated, or sensitive web pages. Also, because the WAVE toolbar evaluates the rendered version of your page, locally displayed styles and dynamically-generated content from scripts or AJAX can be evaluated. - Alan Dean

Seoquake is a Mozilla Firefox extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization and internet promotion of web sites. - Alan Dean

Show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom information services by IP (right mouse button) and hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. - Alan Dean

Firecookie is an extension for Firebug that makes possible to view and manage cookies in your browser - Alan Dean

Allows you to quickly switch to a different language (User Interface, Spell Checker Dictionary and Website content) in your Mozilla application. - Alan Dean

HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The extension can validate the HTML sent by the server or the HTML in the memory (after Ajax execution) - Alan Dean

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies... - Alan Dean

Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser. - Alan Dean

In November, I gave my “Separating REST Facts from Fallacies” presentation at DDD7 and I now have the video. Please be aware that the flash stream is 178MB, so please be a little patient whilst it downloads - Alan Dean

Imagine that you are book publisher responsible for publishing a work of Leo Tolstoy. In Russia, you would not translate the text (the original being written in Russian). But you would still localize by, for example, putting a price on the cover in roubles. You might then order a translation to French and the imprint would be localized by having a price in euros. Depending on your marketing, the localization may also involve changing the jacket image and will certainly require the book title to be translated as well. However, it seems that there is a section of the market for Tolstoy in France that reads in Russian. In which case, you may decide to have an additional imprint that has no translation but still requires localisation of both jacket image and prices. - Alan Dean