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My last tech post was heavily negative, so today I’m going to try and be more positive. I’ve been working with a library called NHibernate, which is itself a port of a Java library called Hibernate. These are very mature, long-standing object relational mapping systems that I’ve started exploring lately.
More …Okay, it’s been a long time since I touched Tune. In fact I think I’m averaging one major blast of work just about every six months. That’s terrible, but I don’t really know what to do about it. I don’t have the bandwidth to run a company and two open source projects at once. Even my involvement with SlimDX is much weaker than it used to be. The difference is that DX has more very competent developers to take care of it; Tune is all on me.
More …I find Windows Installer to be truly baffling. It’s as close to the heart of Windows as any developer tool gets. It is technology which literally every single Windows user interacts with, frequently. I believe practically every single team at Microsoft works with it, and that even major applications like Office, Visual Studio, and Windows Update are using it.
More …Man it’s been a long time since I posted here. Company is going great. It’ll probably be a few more months until I can really say anything, though.<hr>
More …Allow me to introduce you to Songbird. It’s a desktop music player, just like WMP, iTunes, WinAmp, etc. I thought I’d try it out for a while, since I periodically get irritated with WMP (which is sort of bad) and Zune (which is pretty bad) and iTunes (which is really quite bad) and WinAmp (which is downright terrible). My review: It’s shit.
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