Rick's World

Amazing Yesterday, Microsoft announced the rules for how developers can develop applications for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The only problem is, the way these rules are currently written, Microsoft has no prayer of ever beating Apple's iPho… more »

*sigh* Even when I have legal copies of Windows XP, it still seems to enjoy aggravating the hell out of me. I use a Mac Pro at home. I've written in the past about how great it was and how I could run Windows XP in a virtual machine so well that I… more »

For a while now, I've been using a fantastic app called Quicksilver on my Mac. Its a great app if you are a fast typist because it gives you an easy way to launch any application from the keyboard without having to hunt through any menus. Just hit a ke… more »

My friend Dave, wrote a post about an interesting development with Microsoft's Silverlight web browser plugin. He talks about how Silverlight provides the ability to essentially script a web page using C#, instead of Javascript. Silverlight is certa… more »

Hello from Windows Live Writer! This is a test of posting to my blog from Windows Live Writer. Thanks to my friend Dave for pointing this out to me. Hmm, it partially works.  It can post articles, but I can't find any way to set blog categories.. more »

Today, Microsoft demo'd a very interesting hardware and software package called Surface. Surface is this tabletop computer that uses a 'multi-touch' interface to allow you to 'grab' things, move them around, stretch them etc. all on the table. The demo… more »

Three months ago, shortly before it's release in stores, I installed Windows Vista on my machine. A couple of days ago, I deleted it and installed the previous operating system - Windows XP. Why did I go backwards in operating systems? Let me explain.… more »

Yeah, yeah, I know. I spend most of my time using OS X these days, but on occasion I do some 'slumming' in the Windows world. I do program Windows for a living, after all. Yesterday, I downloaded Microsoft's new Virtual PC 2007. I wanted to try it b… more »

For all the Microsoft developers out there, you can download a free copy of the MSDN Library here. more »

One of my coworkers told me about an interesting Visual Studio plugin that you could buy. It was called Visual Assist X. I love this plugin, but at $149, it is expensive. I mentioned this to my friend Dave, and he suggested another product called Code… more »