Written by WATYF on Sunday, 07 August 2005 (1546 hits)
Category: Musical
Have you ever seen an "artist" perform live (on some music awards show... or maybe a late night talk show), and they sound like absolute crap? And even though you're a mindless consumer who just gobbles down whatever the flavor of the week is that they're shoving down your throat, did you ever have that faint, small voice in the back of your head ask, "How come they sound so good on their albums, but every time I hear them live, they suck?".
Well ladies and gentlemen... It's my self-appointed job to reveal to you the mysteries of the universe, and I've decided to start with this one... You see... you don't need talent to sing like the pros... because the "pros" don't have any talent either...
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Written by WATYF on Monday, 01 August 2005 (2271 hits)
Category: .NET Programming
It's weird... one day, I wanna give Bill Gates a big, warm hug... and then the next day, I wanna punch him in the throat and staple pasta to his face. I think it comes with the territory when you're a MS platform nerd, like myself. The latest incident started, as most incidents do, when I thought to myself, "Hey... it would be cool if I could get [insert name of application here] to do [insert name of unbelievably simple task here]." One of the things I'm adding to the next version of TaskRunner is the ability to add a "system cleanup" task to the Task Scheduler. And part of that function would be to cleanup all of your Internet Explorer temporary internet files, history, and cookies. This, by itself, seems to be an extreeeeeeemely simple thing... I mean... that's what I thought, anyway... |
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Written by WATYF on Thursday, 28 July 2005 (1652 hits)
Category: Nerdery
If Wal-Mart is the center of the physical universe (which it is), then Google is most definitely the center of the internet. There isn't anything that I can't find or learn within 5 minutes using the power of the almighty Google (I know I sound like a shill for Google, but I'm getting to a point, so hold your pants on  ). One of the things I like aboot Google is their nice selection of handy-dandy search tools (such as define and link). I like them so much that I built a few of them into the next version of TaskRunner (in stores soon!!).But by far, the neatest thing about Google is something I ran across a number of months ago, and the great thing is, it just got better... |
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Written by WATYF on Wednesday, 20 July 2005 (9138 hits)
Category: .NET Programming
( IMPORTANT UPDATE: Since the writing of this article, I have finally found a .NET embedded database that works great for everything I need. I have left this article intact so you can see how things started out, but some of the opinions in it have been vastly revised. To find out which DB I went with, you can read all about it here.) I've been hunting... and searching... and Googling for the last YEAR at least (well, maybe it's only been two months) trying to find an embedded database to use as the back end for TaskRunner.... but every single one I've tried ends up having some fatal flaw in it that makes it completely or nearly useless for TR. What I need is an SQL capable, embedded database that is thread-safe, has a .NET provider and a small foot-print, and that is available in a .NET source code (although that last requirement, I can live without)... |
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Written by WATYF on Wednesday, 20 July 2005 (2073 hits)
Category: TaskRunner
I swear... I'm like *this* close to finishing it...... I think. Anyway... check out the TaskRunner 3.0 Feature List for a full run-down on what's been added/updated AND for some new screenshots (yay!!)... |
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