Archive for the ‘Boring’ Category
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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