To all dear Iranian around the globe and all nations who celebrate Norouz as their new year celebrations:

Happy Norouz! I wish a year full of hapiness and prosperity and a nice vacation for you all.

 

If you are working on Ajax based application you may feel you should show the user a "Please wait..." or "Activity is in progress..." message. Why not showing them animated icons like Flash preload frames along with your text message? AjaxLessons.com has linked to a web site containing many animated icons for this purpose, you can find various sizes from tiny icons to large linear ones there. See them all here.

 

A few days ago I was searching the web and specially download.com web site for a RAM manager and optimizer software. There were many commercial softwares for this purpose but I was looking for a free version! Finally I reached BySoft.com web site. They offer a free software called FreeRAM. Its installation file is only 505 KB. When you install and run it, FreeRAM will place an icon on your tray showing current available memory. It has quick shortcuts that let you free your memory to a desired amount easily. Also you can specify a RAM Alarm so that when your available memory becomes less than this number, software automatically frees your RAM.

For my personal use it helps me alot. Now that I'm writing this post my available memory is 27 MB... and after I ordered FreeRAM free my memory, my available memory is 94 MB now!!

Highly Recomended!

BySoft FreeRam: Web Site | Download

 

Keyvan started to localize Community Server for Persian language and some other Iranian .NET developers joined him so far. They have registered CommunityServer.ir domain name for this project and this web site is a bit active now and will be expanded in the upcoming days.

Read more about it on Keyvan's post. As I know this project is sponsored by DataNet Company.

I may join them if I can.

UPDATE: I joined the team!

 

Microsoft released Anti-Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Library V1.0 for .NET framework [Details]

I think after SQL Injection, XSS is the second vulnerability which many web sites are infected to and so this tool can help (and awake!) many developers control this danger in their codes.

As said on download page of this library, current downloadable package only contains .NET 2.0 binaries and 1.x versions are due to release in future (Bad news :(( I still have to use 1.x version in some projects).

More information about XSS can be found here.

UPDATE: Library updated! Now it supports both .NET 2.0 and 1.x.