Better Prothom-alo site

Since prothom-alo launced their site in unicode, I try to visit their site once in a day. But the flashy ads are so annoying, I decided to write a simple greasemonkey script to hide all those ads.

A few observation in firebug and some time of mine yielded the following result. If you are a firefox user and use greasemoneky and read prothomo-alo.com site, then please give it a try.

http://code.google.com/p/better-prothom-alo/downloads/list

In short, it hides the banner ads and some unnecessary portion from the prothom-alo site.

Please leave a comment if you liked it.

Opening the current editing file's parent folder in explorer from Visual Studio

Run Visual Studio.
Go to "Tools | External Tools | Add" and use the following settings for the new tool.

Title:       Show in &Explorer
Command:     c:\windows\explorer.exe
Arguments:   /select,$(ItemPath)

done.. you can now open the folder containing the currently editing file in explorer. You can assign keyboard shortcut for this command if you want to.

For further questions read this
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9814d200(VS.80).aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/80cb6ks3(VS.80).aspx

For serious developers

Hi all, how r u?
Few days from now i started using two softwares and really amazed using those. One is Source Insight and the other is Visual Assist X. These two softwares will boost your productivity 10x times. And they are so helpful, particularly if you have to jump in the middle of a ongoing project. You will understand the codeflow, context, symbols very clearly within a very short time. Normally what we do is start debugging the code, find out ways to resolve some bugs. But they will reduce the time for debugging. You just play with them and explore the magic.
I also found some productivity tips which helped me a lot. I will append them later on this post. take care. bye.