Job’s Done!

Lately I have been customizing my Windows sounds. I know, I know, not a hard thing to do. But occasionally you just gotta cut loose and have some fun. I mean until Window 10 is mainstream (and I can’t wait for July 29th), customizing my sounds will be one of the best ways that I … Read more

Laptop Bed Stand

Whilst searching for a MacBook on Ebay, I came across this little gem and had to share it. HORIZONTAL VERTICAL PORTABLE LAPTOP BED STAND This impressed me so much I made a late-night-TV-commercial script for it! ** Disclaimer: I am only poking fun at late-night TV commercials and in general anybody who is simply too … Read more

Fun with TFS

In the spirit of my previous post, and in order to increase the number of posts I do have, here is another tiny-funny 🙂 If you’re going to create a TFS Project as a Sandbox you may as well put a catchy description on it right?  Really, I do work folks .. its just that … Read more

Winforms and Application Settings

I was recently asked if when coding in Winforms, do I prefer using the application.settings feature or some other method.  I immediately went to Despair.com and crafted this reply.  🙂

gource is the source of course, of course

Recently, we rolled out a piece of software to our production systems where I work.  It’s been the largest project on which I’ve worked and it’s also taken the longest.  There have been a lot of ups and downs with creating this software, as there are with any software you write.

As with anything you create (you creative types know what I’m talking about) you look back and see things you could have done differently.  All in all though, I’m extremely proud of how our system has turned out.  The team has changed (literally) over the course of this application.  The architecture though, which I had a hand in coming up with, I’m happy to say has held together for everyone that’s been involved.

That seems like a good thing to me.

So to celebrate the release of our product, I created a movie to show our development of it.

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What is up with all the 8 Hate?

I for one do not get all the “8 Hate” out there. Although I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised. Each time that Microsoft releases a new version of Windows there is an giant amount of criticism.  People hated Windows 7, people hated Windows XP.  People have hated every version of Windows out there. So … Read more

Coffee the Hard Way

No development stuff here today.  Just a random tale from the office. So today this guy, who I have no idea who he is … “made coffee” this morning here in our little coffee bar. I should say that I’ve never made coffee in anything but a regular old pot.  Here at work, we have … Read more

Rise of the Geek-Lord

Well, I finally did it. After many years of blogging personally, and sometimes professionally (but not about development), I have created a techno-geeky-blog.  Here is a place I can rant about all things *geek*, tell stories about my daily work and show off some of it too.  Hang around, I may even tell you something … Read more