Archives / 2007 / April

  • Zune Software to be Written in Silverlight

    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
  • How to Version your Software

    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