Feb 27, 2007
My articulate girlfriend
“The frozen goober of ballpoint thing” Helen describing the obstruction at the end of a ballpoint pen that she was trying to remove by huffing hot air into the pen.
Aaron Brethorst (Page 107)
Meet UAC - Embedding Manifests in Managed Apps
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...
Feb 25, 2007
Developer Tools
Lightweight Development Experiences
Jeremy Jarrell raises some excellent points on his blog about the pain and suffering he goes through when trying to use Visual Studio for lightweight code editing and experimentation: [F]or just playing with scratch code while lying in bed at nigh...
Feb 24, 2007
Leaving a bad relationship
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...
Feb 22, 2007
Apple
Petzold on the Mac: It doesnât just work
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...