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 […]
Published May 16th, 2007
in Microsoft, Programming and Tech News.
Microsoft has recently released Silverlight 1.0, a .NET-based competitor to Adobe’s Flash animation product.
This is an interesting strategic move as Microsoft is moving into what is clearly established territory for the Flash brand. Microsoft is extending the reach of the new Windows Presentation Foundations (WPF) to the web with a version being called WPF/E […]
Published March 18th, 2007
in Development, Open Source and Programming.
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 […]
Published February 3rd, 2007
in Development, Editorials, Programming and Technology.
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 […]
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 […]
With much less fanfare than the previous version Microsoft released the latest version of the .NET framework earlier this month at the TechEd Europe developers conference in Barcelona. The reason for the low-key launch? This release is a renamed, repackaged version of .NET Framework 2.0 with the new Windows Presentation Foundations (WPF, […]
Scott Guthrie recently posted a bit of a resolution for an issue that has appeared in Visual Studio 2005 for people using the new AJAX (Atlas) components. If you’ve been trying this package out, and have noticed some intellisense missing, have a look at the entry listed below. There are two quick […]