The last time I gave some thought to some of the limitations of configuration systems, I was concerned that people use configuration without thought about the consequences. Configuration seems to be a solution of first resort. I was trying to argue that that is probably an unwarranted strategy. It needs to be thought out. I argued [...]
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I was cruising around the ID3.org site looking for a .NET ID3 tag API, when I came upon AudioFiler. AudioFiler is a great application, and one I’ve been searching for for years. Perhaps I should explain. I started creating and collecting MP3s back in about 1997, and since then my collection has [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Vista (or Longhorn if you haven't heard yet) also will support Adobe's latest typographic enhancements:
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Mike Swanson has written a fairly faithful translator between Adobe Illustrator and XAML. It is now only a matter of time before the tedious square window is a thing of the past, and graphic designers can really be let loose on interfaces. To get an idea of what will be possible - take a look [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )…sometimes you get out your brill-o-pad with the best of intentions and it all goes bad. Nitrogen has had something installed on it that disagrees with it and performance is getting progressively worse. There are a few suspects: SQL Server 2005 CTP, VS.NET 2005 beta 2, and a limitless number of other crud that oughtn't [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Monad is a next generation command line interface from Microsoft that is due to become part of Longhorn. The architect, Jeffrey Snover, is so persuasive that you will end up nodding and wondering how you lived without it in the past.
He has taken the best of bash, awk, perl, VMS-DCL AS400 and WSH command line [...]
I love to be educated. I also love the fact that I can absorb new ideas continuously without ever sating my thirst for data. And where better than at Wikipedia, which has obviously been lavished with the attentions of a database expert in recent days. I have to admit that I have never heard of, [...]
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