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By Mike Gunderloy
Friday, February 13, 2004I started out my day in true geek fashion, creating some custom Valentine's Day wallpaper. Now it's back to the usual swim of things.
Software
- ROT-13 Decoder Ring - Online tool to encode and decode ROT-13 messages.
- Vault 2.0 is out, and it's a free upgrade for all existing users. License prices have been slashed. Here's the New Features List. Oh, and it's now free for single-user installations. It's all good.
- PocketKnife Peek - Outlook add-in to screen HTML e-mail as plain text. Free for personal use.
- Visual Studio Styler - Add-in to save multiple sets of font and color settings for VS .NET and easily switch between them. (via Roy Osherove)
Information
- The Next Move in Programming: A Conversation with Sun's Victoria Livschitz - Livschitz is undoubtedly smarter than I am, but darned if I can see any connection between this hope for a more intuitive development metaphor and anything I can actually do to improve my own code.
Community
- Who Versus Whom - Melanie Spiller sorts out another bit of English usage that trips up computer writers.
- ReSharper first impressions - Luke Hutteman gives a glimpse of the coming .NET add-in from the makers of IDEA. Sounds interesting, but not earthshaking. Of course this is just an alpha build and it might be earthshaking by release.
Rants
- Why Microsoft Should Open Source the Leaked Source - I understand that the job of a columnist is to be provocative, but this one is just silly. The author completely ignores the fact that selling Windows amounts for a substantial chunk of Microsoft's income. No bonus points for confusing "open source" and "public domain", either.
- Nachi.B - Some bonehead has released another "white worm" designed to run around and patch holes in Windows. Of course the darned thing also indiscriminately sucks up bandwidth. The author deserves to be drawn and quartered, just like any other worm writer.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.