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Published March 22nd, 2007
Just stumbled across a handy site today: osalt.com aims to guide you through the process of finding Open Source alternatives to commonly-used commercial software.
Published February 22nd, 2007
A couple of days ago I wrote a rather lengthy piece about my first encounter with Visual Studio and C#. Yesterday, I was quite surprised (and also flattered and a little unnerved) to receive an email from Dan Fernandez, Lead Product Manager of the Non-Professional Tools Team at Microsoft: that is, the people responsible for [...]
Published February 20th, 2007
A few months ago I began work on a project — a relatively simple Windows application — as a favour for a friend. Because I’d been fiddling with it for a while and it seemed like a convenient choice, I chose to develop the app in AutoIt.
I’ve mentioned before how cool I think AutoIt [...]
Published February 1st, 2007
I’ve said it before: I’m easily distracted. If my working environment is not just right, my productivity goes all to ratshit. And probably the single most important factor in this is the editor I use for coding.
I’ve been using TextPad for years — so long that I can’t even remember, but certainly since the late [...]
Published January 12th, 2007
OK this is possibly slightly beyond the scope of this site but it’s something that irks me, so I thought I’d write this post.
If you’ve bought a new PC recently (as opposed to building one yourself) then it will almost certainly have come with a bunch of extra software already installed — eg. “free [...]
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