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So I lied. A few other things have happened in the last couple of months. I’ve released a third beta for ShutOff 2010, and new versions of the Password Generator 2010, Simple Lotto Number Generator 2010, and the ShutOff 20×0 registry cleaner. Simple HexConverter 2010 is also almost ready for release. Yes, I sold outContinue reading Ok, I lied
It’s 2010, and has been for two weeks. I have not made much progress since I last checked in on this. Perhaps I can use some of this weekend to catch up. The snag I ran into in December, which is holding up the release, relates to a Microsoft DLL change between Windows XP andContinue reading ShutOff 2010
Tonight, I completed a second conversion of someone else’s Simple PHP Blog to WordPress. As regular readers know, I developed a C# Windows app to do this for myself, last year. However it is certainly not production-ready, so two separate websites had to be assisted manually with the conversion. Their common issue is that theyContinue reading Another Simple PHP Blog converted
Work has been continuing apace on the all-new ShutOff. Featuring a console application at its core, ITS ShutOff is built on the Microsoft .NET framework. My language of choice is, of course, C#. What I’m really excited about is the modular way it is built. The console application is fully featured, which means that absolutelyContinue reading Coming soon: ShutOff 2000’s replacement
Vista sucks. I believe that strongly. We’ve just recently got our Enterprise copy of Windows 7 so I started my upgrade yesterday. After the first reboot during installation, I was told I had a missing operating system. Damn, I forgot to decrypt the TrueCrypt system partition! Did that (back in Vista), restarted installation, and nowContinue reading What I’ve learned from my Windows 7 upgrade
I am a software developer, amongst other things. Software development can be a lonely activity. Sometimes it can be painful. Selling software over the Internet for a few dollars at a time is as potentially rewarding as it can be soul-destroying. On 30 July 2009, the second person to purchase a licence for ShutOff 2000Continue reading On ShutOff 2000 (a.k.a. The Customer Is Always Right)