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”

Winquire News Around the Web for January 3, 2011

Quite a bit’s happening this week, chiefly, CES 2011 is starting this Wednesday and will be held in Las Vegas. Here’s a few news tidbits floating around the web today, some regarding CES 2011. Will 2011 be the end of Wintel and the beginning of “GARM"? Larry Dignan, Editor-in-Chief at ZDNet, writes today about the … Continue reading Winquire News Around the Web for January 3, 2011

Check Out Jeff Blankenburg’s 31 Days of Windows Phone 7

Not sure how I missed this, but Jeff Blankenburg will be posting everyday on his blog regarding topics of Windows Phone 7 development. Of course, I’ve been very interested in these types of topics, especially with such a new and intriguing platform such as Windows Phone 7. I wish I had gotten to this earlier, … Continue reading Check Out Jeff Blankenburg’s 31 Days of Windows Phone 7

Microsoft TechNet Subscription Product keys Reduction

This past weekend I had run across some interesting information over at the SuperSite for Windows regarding a possible decrease in the number of TechNet Product Keys. At the time it was pushed off as a possible network issue with Microsoft and I took no further notice with the issue. However, now it looks like … Continue reading Microsoft TechNet Subscription Product keys Reduction

Intel Breaks New Ground: Selling Unlock Cards for Chipsets

Intel announced that it will be using one of its lower-end chipsets to test whether or not customers will be privy to purchasing upgrade codes to enable certain components of their chipsets. Intel will enable this technology on its low end Pentium G6951 line of processors. Intel won’t be offering this choice with all of … Continue reading Intel Breaks New Ground: Selling Unlock Cards for Chipsets