I have stopped using this blog as my online favourites system. I now collect my online favourites using del.icio.us at the following url

http://del.icio.us/richardhsu

At some point in future, I hope to migrate all the urls to del.icio.us

Bandwidth-saving tip of the day [dive into mark]

Rest2Web - Site builder

Google Information for Webmasters

How to do atomic writes in a file

"Transforming XML" Columns by Bob DuCharme

Canon - Focal length preview
Nice way to see how it looks with at different focal lengths

Screen Capture using Win32 API

Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Minolta X-700/Maxxum AF SLR - Bac to Basic

The Linux System Administrator's Guide

OhmBlog - No More 403.9's

ctLow's Photography Basics
Deepak G, who is himself a very creative photographer provded this link. Thanks Deepak.

Info about getting Cassini to work with VS.Net on XP Home
http://forums.asp.net/344386/ShowPost.aspx

Fusion Workshop
Richard Grimes, step by step, opens your mind to the behind the scenes of 'fusion'-the part of .NET that figures out the physical location of an Assembly and loads it. Its not simple.

How Base64 Encoding Works - About Email

C# code to post new entry to Blogger using Atom API

Date and Time Formats

Building Web Services the REST Way by Roger L. Costello [xfront.com]
Have been reading a lot about RESTfull vs. SOAP vs. WS-*... well have some idea of SOAP but no idea of REST or WS-*, this article educated me about REST.

adaptive path � ajax: a new approach to web applications
talks about how "Asynchronous JavaScript + XML" is being used by Google in Google Maps, Google Suggest etc. to almost make web application seem like Desktop GUI. Very interesting.

BhashaIndia.com :: Developers Home

Smart Client Developer Center Home: Windows Forms FAQ - Windows Forms
via Brian Scott<<TheServerSide.NET

SQL Server Magazine - The Smart Guide to Building World-Class Applications
I had the good fortune of reading a few introductory issues a few years back. Among other articles, there was one I read about joins by Itzk Ben Gann to do really complex querying which enlightened me. Since that day, my outlook towards T-Sql has changed. I recently acquired Itzk's Advanced T-SQL Book. Go get it!!

c learning community -> win32 api c++ programming
i've joined this forum, for asking win32 api c++ specific questions, the guys are really helpful.

ASPAlliance.com : CodeSnip :Forms Authentication Against a Database

Adactio: Articles - CSS Based Design
I've been readin up about about CSS and "web standards" way of html markup. I found this article very useful and it alone explained a lot of things at a very fundamental level, now I understand the 'float' property a little better.

ASP.NET Resources - ASP.NET With Emphasis On Web Standards

Encodings In Strings Are Evil Things (Part 1) - Ryan Myers
If nothing, then this series of blogs will throw some light on how Unicode strings are stored, which will give better idea about what exactly is Unicode ?

Skybound - Software That Speaks
This site is one of the coolest I've seen in terms of design. They also have a few free controls. Its so refreshingly different that I am including this in my Online Favourits.
Courtesy : Jeff Key

What You Should Know About a Reported Vulnerability in Microsoft ASP.NET
courtsey - Premangshu [KolkataNet]

eBook - Real World XML Web Services

A9.com Home Page

The XML Litmus Test
Understanding When and Why to Use XML