Monthly Archives: March 2005

Exif in QuickThumbs

Got basic Exif support implemented into QuickThumbs today. This allows QuickThumbs to display detailed information about photos written by your digital camera:

For those of you who don’t know, QuickThumbs is a photo gallery that generates it’s self automatically from flat files on your drive, so you can just drag and drop photos from your digital [...]

Sweet Lego Video

Somebody with *way* too much free time created a sweet lego version of the music video for this song (O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei).

   

Several other people with the same “excess amounts of spare time” problem appear to have created other videos (kittens!), some quite obsurd.

Browser Fun

Here are some fun things to try out:

This page will freeze the latest Windows version of Internet Explorer (after loading the page, resize the window)http://eric.extremeboredom.net/Stuff/freeze_ie.html
Visit this page using Firefox, then try it in Safari or Konqueror =).http://cflfm.com/

Thanks to Matt (who’s too “cool” to have a blog apparently) for both of these. Does anyone know if [...]

Seattle Mono Meeting Wrapup

So we had a very impressive turnout of three people last night. I guess everyone around here that uses .NET works at Microsoft, huh?
Anyway we still had a good time, Chris was working on implementing a version control system into monodevelop, Andrew was working on refactoring the information management application he is developing, and I [...]

Mono Seattle Meeting Today

Just a reminder that the next seattle mono user’s group meeting is today at 4:00. Anyone interested in C#, Mono, or .NET in general is invited to come (but if we see you boot windows on your laptop we might chase you out of the room =).
The location and any other comments are on [...]

How to (and how to not) ask for help

There seems to be a trend lately. Let’s ask someone for help and assume that they can both see our screen and read our mind!
Examples:
(21:39:47) Someone: for my site i can’t get mono to work as my handler for my site i put the handler line in the apache2.conf but it isn’t working
(18:22:24) Someone: i [...]

New Blog!

I finally got so sick of dealing with bBlog’s lack of, well, anything that didn’t completely suck so I moved over to WordPress. Yeah, it’s not asp.net but everyone who I’ve talked to has liked it very much and I can see why. It’s simple, has tons of features, and at this point “just works”.
You [...]