Contents tagged with Goofy nerd stuff
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8 Windows Live Writer tips
Windows Live Writer really is an amazing application. It does one job really, really well. I've been using it on several blogs including this one (running on Community Server, Herding Code podcast (running on Wordpress). I've also used it to manage content in a variety of ways, including posting content to "hidden" blogs which were really content repositories for consumer facing sites.
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Removing background noise in Audacity by differencing stereo channels
While at NDC13 this June, K Scott and I (joined by Rob Conery as honorary guest host) recorded a lot of Herding Code podcasts in a cool podcast booth. It was an interesting audio challenge. The conference provided us some great audio equipment - nice microphones and a good mixing board. However, the booth was open on top and in the middle of the conference room floor at an indoor stadium, so there was a lot of background noise. On the one hand, that's just part of the fun of live podcasts at a conference, but I wanted to minimize it.
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Zenbook UX31 as a Windows 8 laptop
I've written two previous reviews of a Zenbook UX31 Ultrabook. Short summary: I really like the form factor, build quality performance, and battery life. Here's a final review with a look at Zenbook as a longterm Windows 8 laptop.
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Performant isn't a word
Last month I finished writing a lot of the "Performance" chapter for our ASP.NET book. I used the word performant quite a bit, and was a little surprised when the editorial review told me that performant isn't a word.
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Not really into Pokemon
Having trouble keeping up with the ever increasing torrent of new technologies? Randall Munroe has a pretty helpful tip - when you're not sure, use the Pokemon defense.
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Code Puzzle #1 - Solution
If you haven't read the puzzle, you can read more about it on my previous post.
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Code Puzzle #1 - What numbers under one million are divisible by their reverse?
The other day I got stuck waiting in a slow line at the store all hopped up on espresso and breakbeat, so I started trying to think of numbers which are evenly divisible by their reverse. Example: If 721 were divisble by 127, I'd have a match. Yes, I'm aware this is not normal behavior.
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Can Operating Systems tell if they're running in a Virtual Machine?
Or, do androids know they're dreaming of electric sheep...
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[OT] Getting stupid with Smart Art in PowerPoint 2007
Sure, you've seen the Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation. You may have even seen the Death Start Attack PowerPoint, or David Byrne's PowerPoint fueled artwork. PowerPoint has always been there when we needed our bullet points to say something more.
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Sometimes it's easier to just hex edit the assembly
PalPal's Single Item Purchase links are not technically valid - the query portion of the URL doesn't start with a question mark. This confuses ASP.NET 2.0's Response.Redirect(url) call, which causes the return URL to be malformed. Rather than spend dozens of hours upgrading to the newest version of the store software, I spent 15 minutes with Reflector, WinMerge, and a hex editor to modify the .NET assembly.