85 posts from 2007
Over the past few blog posts, we’ve looked into what Virtualization and run levels are all about, and learned how to create a Fusion manifest that is appropriate for inclusion on Windows Vista. When we created that Fusion manifest for Windows Vist...
I finally dumped MovableType. We had a long, sordid relationship that started all the way back in 2003. I used to think that I really liked it, and even loved it at one point. We broke up under less than optimal circumstances, and I thought that I...
Last time, we took a dive into what virtualization on Windows Vista is all about, and examined the different run levels available to your application. Like I mentioned before, unless you know for a fact that your app should run with higher privile...
Charles Petzold, tha doggfather of Windows programming, published a few choice words about how Macs “just worked” back in December: On Apple's home page, the most important information they deemed necessary to convey to me was that I needed QuickT...
You’ve probably heard a lot about User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Vista already. Contrary to popular perception, it’s really not that bad, as long as the developers creating the software you use do the right thing by not trying to write or a...
I’ve been laying low for the past month, and my posting was sporadic even before that. Part of the reason for that was the Christmas-New Years blogging deadzone. But the bulk of the reason was I changed jobs. It’s pretty common for Microsofties to...
Much like ReviewMe, a new service called Bandwagon is offering free accounts to their service until the 22nd of February for anyone who blogs about them, includes a picture of their logo, and links to a blog post on their website. Not a bad deal...
According to Wikipedia, Grimace, the beloved purple milkshake thing from McDonalds, has been banned from evil, Communist China for “being too much of a free spirit and was rumored to have strong ties to the capitalist West.” God, I love Wikipedia.
Remember Origami, the overhyped ultra-mobile pc? It was supposed to retail for super-cheap, and be a fantastic extension of your existing in-home PC infrastructure. Unfortunately, the devices ended up retailing for about a thousand bucks instead. ...
I ran across this a couple days ago, and have been trying to find time to blog it ever since. It’s an interactive ‘periodic table’ of visualization tools and techniques, chunked into data, information, concept, strategy, metaphor and compound cate...
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