File not found errors when restoring a site collection

How to fix "file not found" errors when restoring a site collection, using an stsadm add-in by Gary Lapointe.

Renaming SharePoint 2010 server

Renaming a stand-alone SharePoint 2010 server
For when you need to have several VMs using the same domain controller.

jQuery plugin for a styled scrollbar

jScrollPane from kelvinluck.com
When combined with an accordion plugin or anything that sets the scrollpane to display:none, the scroller gets initialized to height:0, so you don't see anything. Workaround is to wrap the jScrollPane with show and hide like this:

$('#myDiv').show().jScrollPane().hide();

Another way I found is to add it to the click handler for the accordion tab, like so:

$('a.myTab').click(function() {
 $('#myScrollWrap').jScrollPane();          
});

(discussion of the issue and workaround here)

How to add a Twitter feed to a page

Add Twitter to your blog (step-by-step)
This uses the getTwitters script from twitter.js.

Another way: using jQuery plugin juitter. Code for formatting the timestamp at drupal.org.

How to clone a VirtualBox disk

How-To: Clone or Copy a VirtualBox Virtual Disk

For me, I wanted to convert a .vhd to .vdi, so I did the following:

1. Created a copy of the .vhd (I'm paranoid).
2. Changed the UUID of the copy:

   VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid mycopy.vhd

3. Cloned the copy into .vdi format:

   VBoxManage clonehd mycopy.vhd mycopy.vdi --format VDI

CSS text-shadow

Noticed a cool effect on a menu on the CNET Australia site, and found that it used CSS text-shadow. Found a tutorial at line25.

Time Zone map

Time Zone Map showing current time zones from across the world

3D Carousel in jQuery

The Interface Elements site has a demo here.

Interesting 3D rotator by Will Jessup could also be a good starting point. It's more like a tag cloud.