Jon Galloway

Cropper is one of the my most used utilities. It's a lightweight screenshot application that's easy to use, unobtrusive, and free. It's never supported GIF output, though. I actually hacked together a working but ugly GIF output option about a year ago, but it never made the official release.

I've used this tip at least thrice, so following Phil's "Rule of Three" it's time to do something with it. Link to it now, I shall.

One of Microsoft's announcements at the PDC this week has been LINQ (Language INtegrated Query). Here's the elevator speech version: "LINQ enables developers to query objects, databases and XML using a unified programming model because LINQ makes data transforms and queries first class NET citizens."

Sriram writes about aninteresting use of C# 2.0 Generics to implement "Currying," a technique which is normally reserved for functional programming languages.

Tomorrow's my last day in a big corporate IT shop. I'm going independent to join forces with Phil Haack (Haacked) and Micah Dylan of Veloc-IT.

Not going to PDC, but San Diego is close enough that I can drive up for some evening events once or twice. I'm planning to go to two events Tuesday (9/13) - a secret "underground" event and the Mono meeting.