Refactor Pro now supports Visual Studio 2005, and there’s a trial version available. It expires on the 20th of March. I’m almost afraid to try it out — I may grow so attached that I’ll just have to spend the US$99 and buy it when the demo expires.
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I got a response from the developer of Bibble, pointing out that one of Noise Ninja’s strengths is its use of profiles.
Rather than just applying generic algorithms to distinguish noise from detail, Noise Ninja has noise profiles that are optimized for specific cameras. The 20D is one that is supported, and even without purchasing a [...]
Kathy Sierra says it’s important to blow your mind on a regular basis. Well, she just blew mine with a post about neurogenesis and the discoveries that learning heals the brain.
You see, this month, as I think back on the DRI work, I can tell that my mind has healed. Really. I can almost feel [...]
Kathy Sierra and 37 Signals aren’t the only ones who understand the value of enjoying your software — and that enjoyment may be more important than what the software does.
Though some people wouldn’t believe it, there are people at Microsoft who understand that, too.
Like Chris Pratley and the OneNote team.
At first glance, spending only 1% of the [...]
BibblePro 4.6 with the integrated Noise Ninja is now out. I downloaded a copy and have been playing with it this morning.
Bibble is worlds better than the last time I tried it a few years ago. The biggest change that longtime Bibble users will notice is the new tabbed interface.
It feels much more comfortable to [...]
A manager responded simply “Woot!” to a team-wide mail message today. I have read and heard the term woot (or w00t) for years and, though I have never traced its etymology, I grok its meaning. So I didn’t give the message another thought.
And then replies started showing up from people who had searched for the [...]
There had been a bit of snow and freezing temperatures overnight — very rare for the Pacific Northwest. Coming out of my neighborhood, all the streets were just wet with no ice. But I hit a slick patch that was in the shade of trees coming around a turn. My helmet did its job. No [...]
And thankfully nothing remains quite the same.
This month, I have been the DRI — the Designated Responsible Individual — at work. Fancy title. So what? I’m responsible for keeping a team-specific branch in our source control system in sync with the main branch. Don’t worry if you don’t understand what that means. I’ll explain it [...]
Thanks to Feedburner, my main RSS feed URL didn’t change when I moved my blog. But, for some reason, Bloglines won’t load my feed. I’ve checked, and it’s valid. I’ve also checked, and the content is there.
Except in Bloglines. And I had a lot of subscribers through Bloglines.
Anyone know anything about this?
Update (2006-02-23 13:10): Looks [...]
Natural language processing is one of the holy grails of computer science. Why should people have to learn special, strange languages for interacting with the computer? Very few people can construct a workable query using SQL, for example. Why can’t we just ask the computer questions the same way we would ask another person using natural [...]
Yeah, so the best line in the whole post is the title, and it’s not even mine. It’s from Alfina the Vague, the author of Zemblan Grammar. She’s not writing about photography, or technology, or world events, or even about people I know. But that doesn’t matter because she’s always coming up with glorious combinations [...]
Putting databases on the Web is hard. It’s hard if you do it right, anyway.
Dare Obasanjo collects a set of posts about the challenges of using databases on the Web. These are written for people who have already tried to build systems for millions of users. Let me explain the problems for those of you [...]
The details are finally available about the long-rumored Canon EOS 30D. Did they change to a 1.3x format as so many expected? Did they improve the sensitivity of the sensor by another stop? How many megapixels is this one?
They didn’t do any of those things. The 30D has the same sensor as the 20D. The [...]
A free update to pixmantec RawShooter | premium is available. The full release notes are not available, but in addition to the requisite new camera support, this version is supposed to be faster and use less memory. There are some references to quality improvements and camera profile tweaks.
I’m not sure whether those camera profile tweaks [...]
Tim Bray complains that all the PHP code he has seen has been “messy, unmaintainable crap.” The responses he has posted mostly confirm his opinion, saying things like, “it really needs to clean its act up to appeal to people coming from other programming languages, instead of just people coming from dreamweaver.” Or “it hasn’t [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Randy got a new Gillette Fusion razor – the one with five blades. I got one at the same time.
I was using products from The Art of Shaving. With the Fusion, I found the combination of the shave oil and the nice creamy lather to be too thick. I wasn’t [...]
It’s been quite a weekend. I finally got fed up with dasBlog hanging the worker threads on my old blog site* so I decided to move all the content to Wordpress and start up a new blog. No single part of the process was hard, but there were a lot of moving pieces. Among other [...]
Dave Winer pointed out Jeff Jarvis’s post about blogs being “prisoners of their format.” Jeff says that blogs need to have richer templates and more features: not just a set of posts. He would like to see posts with pages, and maybe news tickers — anything to make a blog Web site richer.
While I would [...]
I’ve been mostly happy with Rawshooter Premium, although even with the ColorEngine and a choice of profiles from Magne Nilsen and Mike Cheney Chaney, I’m still disappointed by the color sometimes.
So this weekend, I think I’ll try out Bibble Pro again, particularly since it will soon include Noise Ninja as part of the raw conversion.
Update [...]
On the way to work this morning* I heard The Romantics’ What I Like About You. It took me back to high school. After every home football game (high school games are played on Friday night) we would have a “sock hop.” The girls from GPS would come over, we would gather in the Hunter [...]