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Comicster users have waited quite a while for a new version, but the wait is over! Today sees the release of Comicster version 4! Download Comicster 4 Here Comicster 4 is a ground-up rewrite and features a revamped user interface. The familiar folder/trade/title tree is still there, but now we have a...
2010 has been a really good year. In April I was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for Client Application Development, which was a huge milestone in my career. I don’t know if I’ll ever get it again, but it at least lets me attend the MVP Global Summit in 2011 which I’m really looking...
As per tradition, the haul from 2010! Xbox 360 Kinect Dance Central Lips: Number One Hits Fable 3 Band of Horses – Infinite Arms Fahrenheit 32 Silver Surfer mug Three t-shirts Two shirts A pair of Calvin Klein jeans Various chocolates and shortbread We also received a restaurant voucher for Gigi’s of...
Halfwit 2 is now available , in what I’m calling a “public beta”. I’m calling it a beta because I know there are one or two little glitches, and still a few features I’d like to add. The Halfwit 2 user experience is essentially identical to Halfwit. There are a few minor...
Yes! It’s my new OCZ Vertex 2 120GB solid state drive! And look at what it did to my Windows Experience Index!!! You may remember that the bottleneck in my previous WEI score was the hard drive. Well, no longer! 7.4 will do me very nicely, thank you very much! :-) Right now the drive is sitting on the...
Too good not to share! I returned to work today after our eight week vacation across Europe and the UK, to find that my co-workers had done this to my office: Every single thing was hand-wrapped in aluminium foil. Every pen, every CD, every cable. Took me about an hour, and three trips to the bin outside...
After a month off in July, the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group met again last night. Numbers, as usual, were down, but it was an enjoyable meeting. Nathan demonstrated SpecFlow , a behaviour-driven development framework for .NET, in which you write your “specifications” as “features”...
Last night I released version 1.0.0.0 of Halfwit, my streamlined Twitter client. As of version 1, Halfwit requires the .NET 4 Client Profile , but if you don’t have it it will be downloaded and installed at the same time. The only new feature in v1 is URL shortening, and at this point it’s still something...
I’ve just started using the DatePicker control from the WPF Toolkit for .NET 3.5 SP1 . DatePicker is built into .NET 4, but for reasons I’ve already explained , we’re stuck on 3.5 for the time being. Anyway, the DatePicker is a simple enough control. It has a TextBox where you can type in a date, and...
The other day I was designing a page in WPF, and wanted to show or hide a TextBlock depending on whether one date was after another. Both dates were stored in properties on the DataContext of the page, so theoretically I could have gotten to either of them via a binding. I have an “AtLeastConverter”...