I was probably the most skeptical person out the when Steve Jobs was making the announcement about his “magical” iPad. In this day and age you can’t take any salesman seriously when he uses that kind of language. But when I saw one in action surfing the Internet the other day I started to see the potential of the platform.
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Google Wave has been bugging me for a while because I didn’t understand what it was – until I saw this video.
Now I understand completely.
Via Gizmodo
Ever since I first heard about it on the Plumbers @ Work Podcast I’ve been looking forward to the release of the psake PowerShell build tool James Kovacs was developing.
Looks like one of the first versions have been released. I’m excited for two reasons: 1) command-line build tools are always the most powerful tools, 2) I can use this to learn PowerShell! 
Anyway, thanks to James Kovacs! I’m looking forward to trying it out!
Hi, I’m moving my blog here. I did a manual install on eric.willcodeforcoffee.com and it hasn’t let me post in months, even with updates and stuff… 
So I’ve moved the blog to the top level. We’ll see how that goes.
No more day job! Today marks the first day I will be working on my side business full time! I’m really excited. I know it will mean a lot of work and sacrifice, but I’m up to the challenge.
Just a warning to anyone else out there who uses Skype: Skype uses TCP Port 80 and Port 443 as alternatives for incoming calls! This will prevent you from starting up IIS or Apache (which was happening to me).
To fix this issue open up Skype Options (Tools > Options in the Menu) and select the “Connection” tab. There you will find a checkbox marked “Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections”. Uncheck that box and you should be okay.
Just in case you haven’t heard, the .NET Framework 3.0 has been released (RTM):
.NET Framework 3 News and Announcements : .NET Framework 3.0 has been released
I wonder when the new Visual Studio will be out?
The website Is your IDE Hot or Not? poses an interesting question.
There aren’t very many good colour schemes on there yet. Seems like everyone has a black background instead of the standard white background. I made my theme based on the Textmate Theme for RadRails, adapted for the Visual Studio IDE. Consolas is a really great font!