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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Ever since I reinstalled my home PC with Vista a few months back I've been trying a little experiment of running it without Microsoft Office. I've heard some great things about Google Docs and since I almost never actually use Word or Excel, seeing as most of my life is spent inside of either Delphi, Visual Studio or E, I figured I'd save myself the price of an upgrade to Office 2007. For the most part it's been fine, not great, not earth-shattering but workable and I've never had reason to complain until this weekend when my wife innocently
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Recently my wife has been struggling with a web developer and he epitomizes a type that you find in specialized areas; someone that looks down upon and punishes those that aren't also in the field. A classic example of this is the music critic. They'll lambaste whatever popular music comes down the pipe while heaping accolades upon bands that you can barely understand, lauding praise upon the intricate chord progressions or the unique way the guitarist bent the notes on the third change, hailing it as the album of the year and declaring the lack of it's appreciation as
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
I'm being lazy and just posting a link because I think this feature is that cool: SubSonic: Migrate Me If you've used Rails you'll know why this is so cool and if you haven't then think "A really cool way to version your database schema and all it's changes and it's default data." The Rails kids shouldn't have all the fun. Read the article, Rob Conery will explain it much better than I ever could. Plus, he's been known to use phrases like "The Tits" when describing software features and you just don't see quality writing like that just anywhere.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
With the recent announcement of the new Zunes coming this fall and the accompanying software, firmware, web site, server and music policy changes a lot of people have taken up the popular Zune vs. iPod debate. There are lots of comparing of features, disappointments that the Zune doesn't do everything the iPod does and general hand wringing over the lack of various features. Some people are quite down on the new Zune, others much more excited, yet in all of this not many people touch on the core reason that iPods and Zunes exist... to listen to music. A
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
One of the things I always loved about working with Delphi was the fact that the entire VCL framework's source code was shipped with the product. Being able to look at and debug into the existing framework code is an invaluable tool for both learning how things are done as well as debugging tricky issues. Today Microsoft announced that they'll be doing the same for the .NET 3.5 framework in the upcoming Visual Studio 2008 release which is awesome news. Scott Guthrie has the deets. While you've always been able to use a tool like Lutz Roeder's Reflector to