100 Days of Code: Day 2 & 3 – App Tracker MacOS Support and UI

Yesterday (day #2) and today (day #3) I continued to work on further adding features to App Tracker. Below is my report on those two days. While this summarizes some of my activities throughout the challenge, I would like to eventually expand on some topics and write additional posts on those. If you have any … Continue reading 100 Days of Code: Day 2 & 3 – App Tracker MacOS Support and UI →

100 Days of Code: Day 1 – App Tracker

Yesterday, I posted about starting the #100DaysOfCode challenge. That was Day 0. The beginning. The introduction. Today marks the first official day of writing code as part of this challenge. What’d we do today? Today, I wrote a basic app tracker in Python to track the time I use different applications on my computer. Right … Continue reading 100 Days of Code: Day 1 – App Tracker →

100 Days of Code: Day 0 – “The Beginning”

Hello everyone! It has been a while and definitely a fun and exciting adventure over the past years since I’ve last deployed anything to this blog. While I may talk about my experiences over the past several years, especially in the software development industry, today’s post is to talk about an exciting new endeavour I’m … Continue reading 100 Days of Code: Day 0 – “The Beginning” →

Creating a C Project in Visual Studio

If you’re in love with Visual Studio as I am, you would probably prefer to do all of your coding day in and day out in Visual Studio. However, sometimes some languages may not appear as if they are supported in Visual Studio. One of those languages is C. Visual Studio is well known for … Continue reading Creating a C Project in Visual Studio →

Solved: devenv.exe–Entry Point Not Found in Visual Studio 2012 RC

If you recently installed the Office 15 public preview alongside Visual Studio 2012 RC, you more than likely encountered the following error: It seems Microsoft is well aware of this issue and has issued a patch for Visual Studio 2012. It apparently has something to do with the Office 15 preview breaking your VS2012 install… … Continue reading Solved: devenv.exe–Entry Point Not Found in Visual Studio 2012 RC →

Windows 8 Product Editions: Keeping it simple

Microsoft today unveiled the Windows 8 Product Editions on their Windows Team Blog. There are a couple things we can take from this post. First, Microsoft is slimming down the product editions in Windows 8 and second, Windows 8 is now the official name for the next x86/x64 Windows (note, the importance of x86/x64 here, … Continue reading Windows 8 Product Editions: Keeping it simple →

Ubuntu removes default Mono support in 12.04: Don’t worry though, you can still (easily) get it back

I’m currently trying out the latest Ubuntu pre-release, 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), and noticed Ubuntu removed support for Mono by default in this release. Prior to 12.04, Ubuntu included a default installation of the Mono Project. However, getting Mono back onto Ubuntu is very easy. Open up the Ubuntu Software Center (located on the Launcher) Select … Continue reading Ubuntu removes default Mono support in 12.04: Don’t worry though, you can still (easily) get it back →

.NET Reflector’s Prices Have … Doubled?

For those who know me know I’m a huge fan of RedGate’s .NET Reflector. I’ve used it since the days it was originally released for free (before RedGate’s announcement on Feb 2, 2011). Since then, I’ve held onto my copy, which according to its license terms says I can use my copy as long as … Continue reading .NET Reflector’s Prices Have … Doubled? →

Improving security out of the box: Change Internet Explorer’s default homepage

When purchasing a new computer, or reinstalling Windows, one of the first things I do is change Internet Explorer’s default home page. By default, Microsoft sets the home page to MSN, which has had its fair share of security risks in the past. I always ask myself, why take the extra risk when I haven’t … Continue reading Improving security out of the box: Change Internet Explorer’s default homepage →