It's been a while since I've done a post.  I've had a lot to say, but no time to write it here (if you've heard me speak in person you'll know I've got a lot to say).  I'll have a bunch to write about UX, database sharding, cloud and composite applications that I'll work on writing up here soon.

But for today, I was googling around for some information on UX trends (which I'll write about soon), and while following my nose I came across these great wallpapers at Ben's Collection of Everything Awesome on the Net site.  My personal favorites:

Ultimate Face Palm (Make It So!):

Evolution of the Cylon:

Think I'm going to make the Cylon one the header of my site :)

I've found a great online tool for formatting c# code for blogs.  It's available here.  You cut and paste the code you want to post into the page and select a few options, press generate, and the output is ready for you to put into your blog.  You can see an example of this in my previous post (and future ones I'm sure).

The one small caveat is that you need to add a stylesheet for the coloring / formatting, and since I use BlogEngine.NET I needed to add the css file to the server and modify the default master page in my current theme.  No big problem, but something you have to do.

I was catching up on Leo Laporte's FLOSS podcast today and one of the episodes was on Seaside and Squeak and I thought they sounded pretty cool and will warrant my investigation at some time in the future.

Seaside is an open source implementation of Smalltalk with addon's for rapid web development, and Squeak is the basis of the OLPC project out of MIT.  This is a really cool environment and had a one click install (available here). This is a screen shot of this running on my macbook.

Looks like I might have to brush up on my smalltalk as this could be cool for throwing together some web apps very quickly.