Hide right side ads in Gmail

A simple chrome extension to hide the ads showed in the right side of emails. The ads will still be there (someone will still search through emails to generate suitable ads), but will be hidden using CSS.
Nice tutorials on building extension for chrome at [5] and [4].
The source code and packed .crx extension are uploaded to google code.
Compilations of references (thanks):

1.   Getting started
2.   Content scripts
3.   Extensions FAQ
4.   Extensions dev guide
5.   Creating a chrome extension tutorial
6.   IconFinder 

XML Formatter

Many times I've searched for tools/plugins/libraries to format/indent/... small XML files. A tool to do that can be easily done with classes from System.Xml namespace. 

try{      
 // Format XML file
 XmlDocument^ doc = gcnew XmlDocument;
 
 char tmpFileName[MAX_PATH] = "";
 GetTempFileName(".", "bak_1", 0, tmpFileName);
 
 // convert unmanaged -> managed
 String^ srcFile = gcnew String(szFileName);
 String^ tmpFile = gcnew String(tmpFileName); 
 
 File::Copy(srcFile, tmpFile, true);
 try{
  doc->Load(tmpFile);
 }
 catch(XmlException^ e1) {
  //convert Managed -> unmanaged
  TCHAR* errMsg = (TCHAR*)(void*)Marshal::StringToHGlobalAnsi(e1->Message);
  MessageBox(NULL, errMsg, "Error", 0);
  return 0;
 }

 XmlWriterSettings^ xws = gcnew XmlWriterSettings;     
 xws->Indent = true;
 xws->CheckCharacters = false;

 XmlWriter^ writer = XmlWriter::Create(srcFile, xws);      
 doc->Save(writer);
 writer->Close();

 File::Delete(tmpFile);
}
catch(Exception ^e) {
 MessageBox(NULL, szFileName, "Exception while converting following files:", 0);
}
MessageBox(NULL, "Converted", "ok", 0);

How nice would be to build your own small tools and adapt them when you need to.   A (very) small step towards being a self sustainable programmer is this :)
http://code.google.com/p/cool-xml/

Easy reviewing with Anki

Anki is a program that makes remembering things easier.
Here's  ~300 questions,  put in anki flash cards, extracted from great ceh exam prep guide.
...would have been very useful in reviewing the material.