Microsoft has placed one of the last nails in the Visual Studio 6.0 coffin with this move. (continued…)
For automated command-line image processing, ImageMagick is the bomb. (continued…)
What’s the FIRST thing you’re going to want to add after you figure out how to programatically request web pages through Microsoft’s WinINet HTTP API? Perhaps add a timeout? Forget it.
UPDATE: Even with my snotty tone, I still got some great feedback from someone at Microsoft, Ari Pernick, about the state of things – see the comments. Thanks Ari!
It’s a pain to find Firefox extensions, there are just too danged many of them. Firefox is too popular for its own good? :> Anyway, here are mine, so I don’t have to dig around anymore. I guess my grandkids will make fun of me for clutching desperately to my frames and old Scritti Politti albums… it’s a fate I accept…
UPDATE: Warning, you might want to hold off on Firefox 2.0, there are very few extensions for it yet…
If you’re like me, you go as long as you can without rebooting your PC, even in Windoze. I constantly manage my task list using sysinternal’s process explorer, rooting out bad or dead processes. Eventually, though, Windows runs low on GDI resources (regardless of what they say) and (continued…)
