Monthly Archives: November 2006

Copying Beethoven

I was lucky enough to score some tickets to an advance promotion of Copying Beethoven from Washington’s Classical Station, WGMS. It opens this Friday. I was pretty excited. It was in the very nice E-street Landmark theater in downtown DC. Apparently, they had given away hundreds of tickets, but no more than 30 people show up. [...]

DiskSlicer 1.0 Released!

[Note: edited to reflect updated name] A little pet project of mine, DiskSlicer, has finally reached the 1.0 stage. It does one thing, but does it well: shows you your disk space is allocated among all the folders and files on your drives. It can be an invaluable tool for figuring out where all your [...]

Why 57 Varieties?

Every why there are 57 varieties of Heinz something-or-other? Here’s a humorous answer and a general history.

Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 Default Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

My first book, C# 4.0 How-To is now shipping! If you like tips you can use, check it out! I wanted to have a quick-reference sheet available to help me learn the Visual Studio keyboard commands. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a handy printable reference. So I made one. It doesn’t contain ALL the shortcuts. For [...]