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After playing with Windows8 a bunch yesterday, all I have is a scene from “The Princess Bride” running thru my head: Inigo Montoya: MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYA! YOU KILLED MY START MENU! PREPARE TO DIE! [Inigo corners Count Rugen, knocks his sword aside, and slashes his cheek, giving him a scar just like Inigo's] [...]
My pappy always used to tell me “There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of ‘em have to pee on the electric fence.” … somedays, I’m surprised how often I get to pee on the damn fence. So, here I am writing [...]
I’ll be in Canada tomorrow at the Vancouver Linux User Group meeting. I’ll be talking about Microsoft, Open Source and CoApp. If you are interested in showing up: Time: 7:30 PM-10 PM Where: iQmetrix offices 250 Howe Street – Suite 1210 Vancouver, BC V6C 3R8 CANADA I’d love to have ya’ll out! And, Pizza & [...]
It has been an extreme amount of time since I’ve done a status update—we’ve been working hard here, honest! Under a stack of what seems like a million little things, blogging has taken a backseat to development in recent months, but I’m hoping to correct that (and have some others do some blog posts too!) [...]
The question occasionally comes up regarding how to create Zip files from C# without using GPL (or LGPL) code. If license isn’t an issue, the simple answer is always is to use ZipLib (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/) which is a wonderful, and well known library for manipulating zip files. The other solution is to grab WiX 3.5 (http://wix.codeplex.com/) [...]
I wrote this a couple years ago, and I ended up in a #cls10 session related to it, so I thought I’d post it unedited. Feel free to destroy it. Idea: A self-regulating community meritocracy model for collaboration and cooperation. This can be applied to any type of collaborative organization where individuals [...]
I figured I’d take a quick break, and review the fine wisdom my old pappy has imparted to my blog: Like my pappy always used to tell me “It may not be the easy way, but it’s the cowboy way.” … Well, WinSxS may not be the easy way (yet!), but it will most [...]
Listen up folks, this stuff is big. Today, I’m announcing the beginning of a project that intends to bring a little joy into the hearts of Open Source aficionados on the Windows Platform. The biggest challenge to using/building/maintaining many Open Source applications on Windows, is that Windows does a lot of things differently than Linux [...]
