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Mar 09, 2007
Meta

Update on end of year predictions

I made eight predictions at the end of last year. With 2007 now about 18% finished, how am I doing? Apple has not released Leopard yet. We'll see what happens. I have a sneaking suspicion that its UI will actually end up looking very much like...

Feb 28, 2007
UAC Vista

Meet UAC - Why you must factor out your apps’ admin components

Let’s say you have a shareware application that can do exciting things like self-registration and updating on the fly. Back in the Windows XP days, supporting scenarios like these would be a cakewalk; you could simply write a serial number to HKLM...

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.

Feb 27, 2007
Meta

Paved with good intentions

I’ll admit it: I made a rookie mistake when I migrated this weblog over to WordPress. I had been neglecting my blog for over a month, but even so, FeedBurner reported that I had more subscribers to my blog than ever before. I spent the better part...

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...