Jon Galloway

I share a home computer with my wife and 3 year old daughter, Rosemary. As a computer nerd, I can't go below 1280x1024 on the screen resolution, while my wife likes 1024x768 and Rosemary uses 640x480.[1]

Back in April I wrote a very basic console app which would (theoretically) allow you to play Shoutcast Playlists (PLS files) in Windows Media Player.[1] I say theoretically because in practice, I've been fielding a large amount of support requests from hapless users having trouble setting up the file associations, checking if they have .NET installed, etc.

Software Architect / Visionary / Philosopher Michael Earls, while working on a contract far from home in Atlanta, muses:
We grow when the people around us have greater expectations for us than we do for ourselves.

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any webpage to change it's behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a webpage's style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a webpage's design or interaction.

I've been pretty silent on my blog lately due to time pressures at work. That's easing up a bit, and I'm very eager to start posting again, about (1) what I've learned on this project, and (2) other things I've been wanting to post about but haven't had time.

Loren Halvorson wrote about XmlPreprocess. It allows you to add some basic logic and token replacement to XML config files, like ASP.NET web.config files, like this: