Reflector for free? Not no more...

Turns out that Red-gate has decided not to honor it's promise to continue to offer reflector for free. Reflector is perhaps one of the most beneficial and well used tools to help .net Framework developers. Show me a developer who doesn't know what reflector is and I'll show you a developer who is just learning .net.

Hopefully c#.next won't modify the IL it generates breaking the tool. But if it does, I guess 35 bucks isn't a lot to pay to avoid having to learn how C# maps to IL and translate it in your head.

Wordle

I ran into a site that is a lot of fun to play with. Wordle is a small java applet which will build one of those word clouds based on text you enter, or given a URL it will build the cloud based on the page. You can check out my cloud here



They also give you html you can use to link the image right into your blog. Which I have done with this post:




If you've had success with this service, or know of any other like it leave a comment. Thanks!

Neat Tool - Colorize your code

Found this neat tool today CodeHtmler, courteous of Tomas. It allows you to take plain text code, and converts it to HTML applying standard colors to it. Preety neat tool that can help you liven up your code when posting it online.