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Nine Inch Nails and the New Online Business Model

Friday, March 7th, 2008

As many people may already know, I am a big fan of the band Nine Inch Nails, aka NIN, which is basically Trent Reznor and whomever he hires to work and perform with him at any given time. Earlier in the week, Trent posted that a new album was available, ...

Ask and you shall receive … Color Wheel for IndirectUI

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

As part of the version 3.30 release of Paint.NET, I have finally marked all of the code in PaintDotNet.exe as "internal" (instead of public). This code was supposed to be treated as internal implementation details of Paint.NET, but plugin authors were using the code anyway. So, at some point or ...

The new Nine Inch Nails, "Ghosts" Volume 1 through 4

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

What a great way to start the week. http://ghosts.nin.com I clicked the "Buy" button about as soon as I saw it show up on digg. I'm almost done downloading the 600MB ZIP containing the album encoded in FLAC. The download links are one-time use only, so hopefully Firefox ...

Paint.NET learns Italian!

Monday, February 25th, 2008

There's one more feature, so to speak, that's been able to sneak in to the v3.30 release. From the blog title it should be obvious: Paint.NET will soon be available in Italian! I get a lot of e-mails asking for this, and now thanks to the hard working folks ...

"Just Add More Cowbell"

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

As an owner of a software project, one trap that's easy to fall into is that of adding more and more features. Quite often these features do in fact add value, but there's a certain point where adding features ends up being superfluous and actually has a negative impact. At ...

Paint.NET v3.30 Preview

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

It's time once again to start babbling about the next minor update to Paint.NET, which will be version 3.30. I'm planning to push it out the door in early April. Here's what's coming: Integration of Ed Harvey's Fragment, Vignette, and Posterize effects. An enhanced version of the Polar Inversion effect, also written ...

Another Dumb Way to Start a Business Proposal

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

They just keep coming in. Subject: re: advertising proposal Hi, I am a media buyer at Medios One LLC (www.mediosone.com).  I am interested in buying inventory on your site.  MediosOne is a global online advertising ...

Paint.NET is going to get 8-bit and 24-bit PNG support

Monday, January 28th, 2008

"It's about time!!!" -- Many users who keep pestering me for this I just finished about 90% of the code for adding 8-bit and 24-bit support to Paint.NET's PNG codec. Most of the work wasn't even in the PNG codec itself, but rather in adding IndirectUI support for FileType ...

Heterogeneous Catch Clauses for CPS Exception Handling

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Well, that title is certainly a brain-full and won't win me any search engine rankings for popular query terms. Anyway, Nidonocu had an important question he posted on my previous post about the "Do" class: This looks like this could be quite a useful class ...

"Use Paint.NET to Photoshop it"

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I guess "Photoshop" really is turning into a generic verb, something that Adobe is undoubtedly unhappy about. I found this on a Q&A website, paraphrased for readability: Question: "My friend has pictures of her eyes, a different color that really stick out. It's grey and her ...