I was reading Scott Guthrie’s blog post about a free CMS (content management system) written with ASP.NET 2.0. I went to look at the site, and clicked on the link for a demo. First sentence:
You can test and get to know the new AxCMS.net for 4 weeks completely free and without oblivion. (Emphasis added.)
Oblivion. Funny.
Update: I checked last night (2/13/2006) and the word was corrected.
A couple weeks ago, I posted a “slightly useful piece of software” which could be used to convert a bunch of BMP files to JPG. We’ll I just updated it to allow you to select the source and destination file types.
I’ve replaced the old download with the modified one, and you can get it here. Use at your own risk.
It’s pretty simple to use, but see the original post for more info. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. I probably won’t put too much work into it, but if it’s a good suggestion, I may.
I just saw this today: MS Paint
(via Clemens Vasters)
The next WI .NET Users Group meeting is on February 21st. I’m looking forward to the next meeting where our very own optionsScalper (OS) will be presenting “An Introduction to F#” (register here).
Why am I so interested? Is it because OS is such a hottie? While one could make that case, I’d have to say, “No”. It’s because F# has been described to me as the “math language” of .NET, and you may not know it, but I have a B.S. in Applied Mathematics. 
It’s been a while since I’ve had to do any serious “math-like” development, and even longer since I’ve done anything remotely academic, but talking to OS about this has definitely piqued my interest.
If you have any interest in math, finance, a “scripted/functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language”, or just cool, new stuff in general, then you owe it to yourself to attend. Get the details and register here.
A couple weeks ago, I posted about a ZIP of stuff for IE context menus. I just updated the ZIP file to include a context menu item for getting a map for a highlighted address from Google Maps.
Here is the updated ZIP. Download and use at your own risk. See readme.txt for summary and instructions. These will modify your registry and if you don’t know what that implies, then you probably won’t want to install them.
I have a few invitations to use the new MSN Live Messenger Beta. If I know you, and only if I know you, and you want one, let me know. First come, first served.
I disabled comments and trackbacks on this post because I’ve seen other posts where someone announces invitations, and that’s too much. 🙂 Besides, if you know me, you’ll probably know how to contact me anyway.
In honor of me starting to use the new MSN Messenger 8.0 (Windows Live Messenger), I made myself a new display picture. Let me know what you think.
Old pic:
New pic:
Downloaded it this morning and have been using it all day. So far, I don’t really notice much different, other than the skin. I know it has shared folders and offline messages, but haven’t got to play with that yet.
Sorry, no invitations yet, though.
Some time back, I posted a little thing I hacked out to let me open un-linked URLs in a new window (in IE). Well, I actually have a few very similar, ummm, things. There are five parts in this ZIP. You can pick and choose which ones you want to use. Here they are:
In a nutshell, these each add a new menu item to your right-click menu in IE when you have text selected. Once installed, select some text, right-click, pick the new option. Pretty simple, hey?
Here is the ZIP. Download and use at your own risk. See readme.txt for summary and instructions. These will modify your registry and if you don’t know what that implies, then you probably won’t want to install them.
Update: I’ve since added another “thing”. Read the update post here.
OK, so this one may only be useful to one other person on the planet, but here it is. (If you’re a .NET developer, then this is a trivial application.)
Anyway, my wife had a need to convert a bunch of BMP files into JPGs, and she doesn’t have Photoshop, or anything like that installed. She could have done the conversion with MS Paint, one at a time, but that was cumbersome for a lot of images. So I “whipped this together” for her. In a nutshell, you specify a folder, and it creates JPG versions of all BMP files in that folder. It doesn’t do any resizing, resampling, cropping, or anything else. It just saves a copy in the new format — pretty basic.
For the .NET geek that might read this, I got 95% of the way (which was approximately equal to a whopping 20 lines of code) through this in VB 2005, then remembered that she doesn’t have the new framework installed. So rather than spend the time installing that for her, I just copied the code into VB 2003 and finished there. What can I say. I’m lazy… 🙂
Anyway, here is the download. Use at your own risk. I zipped the entire solution, but if you’re not a developer and just want to use it, then look for the EXE in the “bin” folder. You must have version 1.1 of the .NET framework installed for this to run, but if you’ve run Windows Update anytime in the last couple years, you probably do.
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