Some things I really like about the new media player: It is a LOT faster. I have at least 15,000 songs I’ve ripped from my large CD collection. WMP 10 took far too long enumerating albums and songs. The instant search may become my primary way of finding specific music to listen to. I like [...]

I received many wonderful gifts for my birthday, but these in particular have helped me at work in a way nothing else has. I listen to music constantly as a program–it helps me concentrate and eliminates all other distractions.  They really do work as well as I expected–maybe even better. I work in a pretty [...]

Leticia and I took in Riverdance over the weekend. I’d seen the video and listened to the music countless times, but seeing it live on stage is a completely different experience. If the tour ever comes to your area I highly recommend it. The foot work is simply out of this world and the music [...]

I had an interesting problem at work the other day. In this MFC application, there are a number of views that can be printed and we support the Print Preview function. However, in one of these views we rely on getting the view from the frame window in order to handle command updates. This is [...]

Has anyone else ever had the experience of typing code in such a way that you build up an actual rhythm, patterns, a definable velocity punctuated by occasional flourishes?  I found that happening today. I’m coding up a well-understood pattern in this application and so I can type quite a bit in long spurts. I [...]