Most of the large projects I’ve worked on have been C++ MFC applications that had hundreds of source files in a single project. Visual Studio 2005 added support for parallel builds, but only of projects – not of individual files. When you’ve got a single project that takes ten minutes to build, you want that sort […]
So here are my thoughts on PayPerPost. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a new service dedicated to blog advertising. That link right there? I’ll get paid for putting it on my blog, because it’s an “opportunity” that the site lists. Bloggers can scan available opportunities and pick ones that they want to write […]
That’s the big news today: In a stock deal, Google is buying YouTube. A deal like this makes me wonder what Google is really getting out of it. Another company might be impressed by YouTube’s ability to scale – to deliver video as well as they do – but surely that’s nothing impressive for Google. […]
I want to do a visual refresh of my blog. It’s too monochrome, and just not interesting looking. Problem is, even though I work for Adobe and have access to the best tools on the planet, I’m just not a very good visual designer. But I’m going to try. I want to keep the same […]
I’m using VoIP at home through Vonage, and while there was a time that I was having bad luck with it, since I switched ISP’s, I haven’t had a single call whose quality I haven’t been happy with. Something occurred to me a couple of days ago – at work, we use Cisco VOIP phones. […]
I don’t regret switching to DreamHost for a minute. Not only have I had reliable service since switching, but they have this policy of automatically upgrading your storage and transfer every month by a small amount. This month, they gave us a bit of a bonus. Ten Times the disk space. As a free upgrade, […]