Archive for the ‘Boring’ Category
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Over the years I’ve had to put up with several individuals, and companies, trying to plagiarize Paint.NET by recompiling the program under a different product name and with their own name stamped into the credits. Sometimes they charge money for it. I even came up with my own term for ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
I was reading over at John Cow (yes, Cow, not Chow!) how he turned down an offer for $30,000 to buy his blog outright. The blog's income is about $3,500 per month from advertising sales. I think John made the right decision, as he'll easily make more than $30,000 over ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
As a computer scientist and software developer, I have been conditioned to live in fear, or at least gross distaste, of legacy. That is to say, legacy code, legacy systems, legacy process/procedures, etc. As a self-proclaimed cowboy rock star egotastic developer, anytime I see code that wasn't written by myself ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
One thing that John Chow has given advice on is selling ads directly. I've been thinking about this a bit the last few days and I think it may be time for me to try it out. I certainly have the traffic for it! The getpaint.net website gets over 1 ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
I was told earlier today that an old copy of Paint.NET wasn't updating, along with the fact that the version was 2.63. This was a version that is pointed at the old Paint.NET website, http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net, for the update manifest, and that manifest has not changed since 3.0 was released. The ...
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Sometimes I see news and update sites listing the latest release of Paint.NET with three version fields: 2.7.2 or 3.0.8, for instance.
It's actually 3.8 if you look at the version resource in Windows.
In truth, 3.08 really is more of a "3.0.8" release: it's mostly the same as 3.0, except with ...
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