I’m going away for a while, so I can rethink my on-line ”identity”. This blog may or may not disappear in the future.
After many, many, recommendations I finally got round to trying out ReSharper (aka R#). R# is an awesome plugin for Visual Studio designed to make writing code better, smarter and easier. Unfortunately I found that if you’re not entirely clued-up on parts of the language some of ReSharper’s suggestions can be head scratchers.
Following my essential software for a new Windows 7 install I’ve come across Ninite, which promises easy installation of a wide range of applications.
Thursday saw the public release of Windows 7, and as with any OS upgrade, it’s a chance for a fresh start, a chance to pair our software installs back to the minimum we need. It’s all with the good intention to keep our computer leaner and faster than before.
Jolicloud is billed as a new OS for Netbooks. I gave it a try and found it didn’t quite live up to its billing.
I love my Dell Mini 9 Netbook. For the size and price of it, it’s a fantastic little machine. Netbook screens are particularly limited in vertical height, so it’s unfortunate nearly all browsers waste a lot of screen space with various bits of “chrome” – Window borders, address bars, search bars, menus, tab bars, bookmark bars, etc…
A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of ok for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost ten dollars…
…But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a man who only bought cheap boots would have spent one hundred dollars in the same time and would still have wet feet.
The beauty of web development is that, ultimately, the code behind it is simple. Pure, simple HTML can be a wondrous thing. Lets try not to spoil it, while making our jobs more difficult in the future.