September 2004 - Posts

• Get pi/2% off at Amazon if you use a9.com

  If you register yourself with Amazon's http://a9.com search engine, you'll start getting π/2% (1.57%) off your purchases. I mentioned a9 when it went beta and now it's been released. It's got some cool features on top of google, although I have to admit Read More... Posted Friday, September 17, 2004 8:55 AM by dancre | 10 Comments

• iTunes, WMP, iPod, iTMS and choice

  There's been lots of discussion following the release of Windows Media Player 10 regarding choice. It's a bit complicated because there are so many axes of choice, and so many things to pivot around. I'll try to summarize some of the issues here. iPod: Read More... Posted Sunday, September 12, 2004 9:11 PM by dancre | 38 Comments

• Unit testing in Visual Studio Team System

  I've been playing with the unit testing in Visual Studio Team System (documented here ), and it's awesome! The parts I love the most are: Integration of the unit testing framework with Visual Studio The ability to select some code and have it generate Read More... Posted Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:46 AM by dancre | 0 Comments

• Fiddler - an awesome tool for viewing/debugging HTTP traffic

  Fiddler is a great little tool for viewing HTTP traffic on your machine. It sets up a debugging proxy server on your machine so it can easily snoop all of the HTTP traffic from any apps that properly detect the proxy. You can see each request and response. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 10:39 AM by dancre | 2 Comments

• Windows Media Player 10 is out!

  Go grab it here . I must say, I'm very happy with it, especially the music store integration. I use Napster's subscription service. It lets me download all the music I want and listen to it all I want for $10/month. However, I loose access to all the Read More... Posted Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:42 AM by dancre | 7 Comments

• Interesting thread between Miguel de Icaza and Chris Anderson on Avalon

  http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2004/09/avalon_throwawa.html Miguel de Icaza of Novell is the lead of the Mono project, which is an open source implementation of the .NET framework based on the ECMA standards. Today, Miguel blogged his thoughts Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:28 PM by dancre | 0 Comments

• Color coding messages in Outlook

  One feature I've always loved in email clients is the ability to color code messages (even though I'm colorblind!). In MacOE, you do this by creating a rule that can set the color of messages. In Entourage, you do it by setting the category of a message. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:55 AM by dancre | 2 Comments

• Virtual PC 7 for the Macintosh with G5 support has been released!

  See the Microsoft VPC page for details. It's just in time to use with a new iMac G5! Some of the highlights of the release include: G5 support (duh!) Ships with Windows XP SP2 Some nice performance improvements, including making better use of the GPU Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:25 AM by dancre | 3 Comments