What with one thing or another, I spend some appreciable amount of my time in Visual Studio. So, like you, I've customized the font and color scheme so that it looks good to me and I can quickly grok code within it. Not as drastically as some, I must say — and given my predilection for grays and muted colors, I'm surprised I haven't gone for this one. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
READ MOREThis afternoon, for want of anything better to do with the freezing cold outside and the housework inside, I wrote an archive calendar chalk extension for the website. It's over there on the far sidebar. […]
READ MORESheer awesomeness. The bug that bricked all those 30GB Zunes on 31st December 2008 was an infinite loop. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
READ MOREI just got back to my main desktop, only to find the Norton Security Scan running with a scanning window showing. Fair enough you might say, except that I'd uninstalled it 2 days ago. WTF? […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]
READ MOREAlthough I love using Windows Live Writer (WLW) to write blog posts here and at work, one of the problems I've had with it is that, out of the box, it's mostly geared to what you might call "simple" posts. Normal text, bold, italics, underline, bullets, numbered lists, tables, images: no sweat. Words or phrases marked with <code> not at all, and that's something I tend to use a lot of when writing a "technical" blog post. A quotation with <blockquote>? Nah, sorry. […]