Exporting your online albums to Flickr

I finally completed the transition of moving my digital photos from my self-hosted online photo album to Flickr. This processs involved writing a custom application in .NET 2.0 WinForms and using both the open source FlickrNET libary for .NET as well as the MySQL Connector for .NET. I had decided to make this transition late [...]

Feed now aggregated through FeedBurner

To better keep track of my subscribers, I’ve moved my RSS Feed to go through FeedBurner, a great service that tracks all kinds of Feeds statistics. I have initially been cool to the idea of using FeedBurner but having already been through one Feed URL migration, I can definitely see the value in being able [...]

Changing themes

I’ve been watching the WordPress.com blog to see if any new themes were coming in and I caught a recent post for the Sunburn theme from Jim Whimpey. Jim seems to dislike the theme and he was actually embarassed that it was put up on WordPress.com as he found it to be incomplete and not [...]

Getting started with Yahoo Pipes

This post is probably about a week late from the hype surrounding Yahoo Pipes, but I got a request to post it and I think many people will find it useful. Pipes is a new tool from Yahoo for aggregating content from multiple sources (RSS, HTML, Geo-data) into one single RSS output feed. Additionally you [...]

Ruby performance round up

There was a recent blog post by Antonio Cangiano, an IBM developer from Toronto, benchmarking the performance of a number of different Ruby implementations across multiple platforms. The results were very interesting. To summarize, the following platforms were tested: Ruby 1.8.5-p12 stable on Linux; Ruby 1.8.5-p12 stable on Windows Vista; Ruby 1.9 on Linux; JRuby [...]

Making the jump to Vista Ultimate

I have decided to go ahead and upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate on my laptop. A number of factors have affected my decision to do this: Vista is cool to play with. Its no OSX, but it’s no slouch either. With features like .NET 3.0 and AeroGlass, it has won over many converts in the [...]

Snap Previews are annoying everyone

The latest buzz is that the Snap Previews that are enabled on many sites are extremely annoying. I can attest to this and I’m now removing them from my blog. Snap Previews seemed like a cool feature at first, but I think something like this should be implemented at the browser level, not through a [...]