Jeff Makes Software
The software musings of Jeff Putz
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Taking the FireFox plunge
Well, I've decided it's time to take the plunge into using FireFox full time for awhile. I've used it on and off for the heck of it, and decided to jump on the bandwagon and use it all of the time.
I'm not an IE hater. I think IE is fine. I just figured I'd give FireFox more of a long-term shot so I could better compare. I honestly think the "browser wars" are more about hating Microsoft than one browser being particularly better than another. Browsers are like pencils to me. As long as they write, I don't care much which one I use.
Does anyone know where FireFox stores bookmarks? I've always had my favorites folder for IE set to backup, and would like to do the same with FireFox. I can't find it.
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The lust is gone for ASP.NET v2.0
For awhile there, it seemed that the world would stop if suddenly ASP.NET v2.0 didn't exist. It was all the rage on blogs and Internet articles. Since then, it seems that we've gone back to developing with the "old" v1.x because, well, there's work to be done today.
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Editorial reviews are in
I got the last group of editorial reviews for my book yesterday, and the good news is that better developers than myself like it. Sure, there's lots of tough criticism, lots to revise, but they all like the approach overall. That's a relief. I hope that the people that need to learn from the book like it as much. Reviewers on Amazon are not that kind! I'll be crushed if it doesn't sell that well.
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Was The Sims 2 written by amateurs?
Sometimes you encounter some pretty ridiculous things in commercial software. I bought The Sims 2 for Stephanie, something to distract her from grad school, and was horrified to see that it installs over 300 MB of save data to your My Documents folder, whether you like it or not. There is no option to do otherwise. This is a problem for us because we off-site backup our My Documents folders daily.
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Relaunched my game file exchange site
I relaunched my game site, CoasterBuzz Games today. I originally hacked together the site about two years ago to exchange RollerCoaster Tycoon files, but it was a mess and I never really did it right. It was insanely slow too. With the impending release of RCT3, I figured it might get more use so it needed a rewrite.
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IT firms want business-smart coders? What a shocker.
An article on News.com today says that IT firms are hiring, but they're looking for code monkeys that understand the business. What a shocker.
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PC-based DVR fun
After "finishing" my book last night and faced with time to worry about, well, nothing, I started to think a little bit about TV. The truth is, Stephanie and I don't watch much TV, but naturally it seems that every network is scheduling the shows we do watch at the same time.
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My book is finally "done!" (need help with the title)
Well, sort of. The draft has been entirely turned in to the publisher. Pending some more editorial reviews it will go to production and with any luck, it'll be dead trees sometime in the second quarter of 2005.
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What happened to weblogs.asp.net?
I know I shouldn't complain, seeing as how it is free and all, but what the heck did "they" do to weblogs.asp.net? The home page shows fewer entries. That's bad.
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Schwan's has a nice ASP.NET application
I don't know if you have "the Schwan guy" in your neighborhood or not, but Stephanie and I order Schwan's regularly. The food quality is generally pretty good, and a lot of it makes for above-average convenience food that you can easily throw in the oven. I'm particularly fond of the Hot N' Spicy Chicken Breast. It's kind of like what they have at Wendy's, only they're generally a lot bigger.