School vs real life coding

Hyperloop is revealed

 Elon Musk finally published details about "Hyperloop" - way to travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles at the fraction of the cost of the system California is building now. In essence, this will be elevated tube, sending aluminum pods through.

Details here:

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop

and here:

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperloop-alpha.pdf

Engineers and TODO lists :)

PNG

 I don't dabble much in image formats, except for having appreciation for SmushIT! :) but this sounds like a neat trick - using CSS to reduce png size:

http://i-am-fat.org/PNGRotateTrick/

Anti forgery token

 Premise is simple - you need token to verify that this is you who is posting to the page and not somebody else posting for you.

 Token is written to the form and to the cookie using HtmlHelper.AntiForgeryToken() helper, and when form is posted, controller will validate the token for the post action that has token validation attribute enabled:
 

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken(Salt = Constants.AntiForgeryTokenSalt)]

 There is a great article by Scott Gu about it:

http://weblogs.asp.net/dixin/archive/2010/05/22/anti-forgery-request-recipes-for-asp-net-mvc-and-ajax.aspx

Star trek t shirt

 This from the Star Trek store:
http://www.cbsstore.com/star-trek-personality-grid-and-picard-is-better-t-shirts/detail.php?p=451621&v=cbs-thebigbangtheory-star-trek

10 reasons by Picard is better than Kirk:

10. Picard is a man of culture.
9. Kirk was scared of a little tribble.
8. Kirk wouldn’t go anywhere alone.
7. Picard looks fantastic in spandex.
6. Picard lasted more seasons than Kirk.
5. Picard doesn’t need hair to feel like a man.
4. Picard’s ship logs contain more syllables per word than Kirk’s.
3. Picard hasn’t contributed to the population explosion.
2. Kirk only worries about his own butt.
1. The Borg only assimilated intelligent life.

I love #1 and #8 :)

Standards proliferation- xkcd is awesome

If only I can remember how to spell xkcd! But it's so true!

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png