Monday, April 30, 2007
OK, disclaimer, I actually have no idea if it will or not but in the tradition of bloggers everywhere I thought I'd do a bit of overstatement to grab some eyeballs. Plus if it turns out to be true I can claim psychic powers. After looking at a lot of WPF and Silverlight demos it seems that something like the Zune software would be a perfect fit. It allows for a much greater degree of UI customization and "prettification" while still integrating naturally into the OS. Looking at apps like Vertigo's Family.Show or thirteen23's Harmony you see the richness of UI
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Most developers live and breath version numbers, yet there are a few that either don't or don't really have a good rule of thumb on what their versions should mean. There are also quite a few people that have to deal with versions that aren't developers, such as tech support, marketing and new team members. For those people it's always a good idea for everyone to be on the same page. What's in a version? So you have version 1.5.4.675, what does that mean? First, the different parts are, in order, major, minor, release and build number. I first wrote this up as