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Well after several weeks of trying to work on things (and 10 days of waiting for SourceForge) I’ve managed to get the first Beta-build of PowerTray published and available for download.
The initial version has a few interesting features:
Plugin-based architecture to allow for future feature development
XML configuration file to allow for assignment of Hotkeys
Plugin for […]
I finally got the chance today to get back to working on PowerTray, this time with my Visual Studio 2005 installation on my Virtualized Windows Vista setup. The first thing I ran into was this warning dialog:
To me, this is the kind of issue that shows immaturity in the OS. Though it is possible […]
!!! Geek Alert !!!
Sometime ago Apple removed the tool wget from the OS X toolset and replaced it with the arguably more powerful curl tool. This new tool is great, and it has many new advanced features that the older wget tool lacks. However curl has one thing against it: it’s somewhat […]
I’m working on a new side-project which I think will be fairly useful for all you Windows users out there. It’s called PowerTray. The idea behind it is to have an application which will allow you to do many of your often-repeated tasks quickly and easily and at the touch of a hotkey.
That in […]
These two platforms have been fiercely competing for the lucrative “Enterprise” business customers since the .NET Framework made it’s Beta debut in late 2001. Since that time the debate has raged on in organizations of every size and in Internet forums of every description: Which platform is the best platform?
Pundits from all sectors […]
This past week marked the official launch of Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX libraries for the .NET platform (formerly “Atlas”). The uptake on this new implementation of a not-so-new technology has been moderate, with the folks who really want to use .NET to target a Web 2.0 solution being the most enthusiastic.
AJAX in and of […]
Microsoft has recently released an updated version of its XML Notepad. This is a fairly basic tool which provides a tree interface to edit XML documents which is easier to understand and work with than hacking through the file using Notepad or even Visual Studio.The interface takes a bit of getting used […]
Well it certainly didn’t take long to start some new and interesting open-source projects geared around Nintendo’s new darling system. The Wii has inspired the folks over at WiiLi.org to create a version of Linux to run on this next-generation console.
Some of their first projects are to understand the Wiimote and the other hardware […]
For the geek in all of us…
I stumbled on a couple of articles recently pointing out the history of programming languages. What originally pointed me at this was an article in Nikhil Kothari’s blog. He pointed to a chart on O’Reilly’s website which listed out the history of programming languages from the 1950’s right […]
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