Monthly Archives: February 2007

Handy .Net Service Template

I love .Net Services. Its a handy way to create background processes, and they work beautifully in both Windows and Linux (thanks to Mono!). However, every time I create one I find myself writing a lot of the same code … Continue reading

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Perceptive Pixel + Gnome = Minority Report UI

Ironically Mac Rumors has a video of Perceptive Pixel demonstrating their multi-touch UI running on top of Gnome. (You can tell its Gnome during the scene where they’re manipulating a 3D image: Gnome’s 2 standard panels are on the top … Continue reading

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Forbes Hates Vista

My view of Vista is that its a cheap Mac OSX rip-off with no new features of any real worth. According to a Forbes article, I’m being way too nice. While the author seems a bit more angry than I … Continue reading

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Lost in a Sea of Web Frameworks

So I’ve been trying to learn Python and have successfully written a couple small scripts. For the couple of small web sites/services I’ve written, I used CherryPy mostly because I know someone who is active in the CherryPy community.Coming from … Continue reading

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Another Microsoft Gem

“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.” – Jim Allchin, Microsoft Executive, in an e-mail to Bill Gates in 2004. This is old news, but it cracks me up every time I read it.  … Continue reading

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