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Nice article on the few steps you could take to make your code run faster without too much effort. Few great tips on profiling and taking advantage of things like pypy and cython!

FXForms is an Objective-C library for easily creating table-based forms on iOS. It is ideal for settings pages, or user data entry tasks.

Free (public domain, do whatever you want) hi-resolution photos.

Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout.

Chosen is a jQuery plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.

A Callback-Based Http Client Library for Android

Handy SQL snippet to help identify slow queries:

SELECT TOP 20

qs.sql_handle,

qs.execution_count,

qs.total_worker_time AS Total_CPU,

total_CPU_inSeconds = --Converted from microseconds

    qs.total_worker_time/1000000,

average_CPU_inSeconds = --Converted from microseconds

    (qs.total_worker_time/1000000) / qs.execution_count,

qs.total_elapsed_time,

total_elapsed_time_inSeconds = --Converted from microseconds

    qs.total_elapsed_time/1000000,

st.text,

qp.query_plan

from

sys.dm_exec_query_stats as qs

CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) as st

cross apply sys.dm_exec_query_plan (qs.plan_handle) as qp

ORDER BY qs.total_worker_time desc

Quartz.NET is a full-featured, open source job scheduling system that can be used from smallest apps to large scale enterprise systems.

Handy, undocumented stored procedure to quickly see current SQL Server connections and/or queries along with CPU time and duration.

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners.

Papa is a powerful jQuery plugin that parses CSV (delimited text) input and can handle large files by streaming them.

Ambient sounds to wash away distraction.