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Adventures into the world of amateurgramming. I'll leave the programming to the professionals.

May 2009 - Posts

It is helpful to know what success is before you can accomplish it.
Last weekend I took a safety class to get my motorcycle license.  At the end of the class you must take a multiple choice test and a riding test.  The class instructors held back the bar of success in both tests even when asked by other students.  Read More...
Windows Live Writer Tip #11 – Insert Image from Web on Windows 7
During the very late stages of development for the last version of Windows Live Writer we found a bug on our 'Insert from Web Image' dialog.  Specifically there was a bug that prevented users from inserting images that that were part of libraries Read More...
Windows Live Writer Tips #10 – Keyboard Shortcuts
Sometimes, you can be just in the groove when typing your blog entry, and the last thing you want to do is disrupt your flow by having to use your mouse to do something. Fortunately, Writer has a lot of keyboard shortcuts that make this really easy to Read More...
How to enable verbose logging in Windows Live Writer
Users can enable verbose logging in Windows Live Writer which will cause the application to log some extra things that it would normally not.  This is often an important step for debugging problems with blog services because it will log all the traffic Read More...
Windows Live Writer Tip #9 – Quickly Inserting Videos
So you’ve found a great video on YouTube (or SoapBox ) and you want to share that video with your readers. We all know about the option that’s there in Live Writer under the insert section on the right hand side, which will give you the familiar screen: Read More...
Windows Live Writer Tips #8 – Add Features to Live Writer Using Plug-ins
Like a lot of programs, there are always some things that Live Writer doesn’t do that you’d like it to do. However, Live Writer has it’s own way of allowing other developers to create those missing features and bits of functionality, and create plug-ins Read More...
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