Archive for the ‘Boring’ Category

How much is Paint.NET worth?

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 ...

Dealing With Legacy, or The Story of Paint.NET’s Bug Database

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 ...

Considering Direct Ad Sales

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 ...

Updates for Paint.NET 2.5 – 2.64 are working again

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 ...

Paint.NET versioning: Why is it version “3.08,” instead of “3.0.8” ?

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 ...