Archive for June, 2004
Holiday Update
We’re in Mildura at the moment, checking out the 2004 World Hot Air Balloon Championships. It was pretty amazing yesterday to get up and see a sky full of hot air balloons. Unfortunately the weather is threatening to be crappy all week. I’ll try to put some photos up in the next [...]
Wafer thin
I’ve just discovered Planet Python, which aggregates a huge mess of Python related feeds into a single site.
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PyLucene moves to OSAF
PyLucene, a python wrapper for the Lucene search engine, has now moved to the OSAF as a sub project of Chandler.
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Gmail Accoutrements
After using Gmail for a few days I can really see the need for some type of taskbar notifier to let me know when I’ve got new mail.
There’s one available here, but it seems like it could use one or two more upgrade cycles and some more options relating to a user’s choice of browser.
Adrian [...]
Command Prompt Explorer Bar
I’ve been using this explorer add-on for a while now and I’m finding it really useful. When you hit Ctrl+M inside an explorer window, it will pop up a command prompt which occupies the lower half of the window; it can ‘follow’ you as you navigate around, and it provides a number of built [...]
gmail love
I recently got a gmail account (thanks Ben!) and my initial impression is that it’s easily the best email program I’ve tried. Using it for a couple of days provides great context to some of the assertions in Joel Spolsky’s article on how Microsoft lost the API war. Gmail feels and acts like [...]
Dacris NetXP controls for .NET
Dacris make a nice set of freely downloadable controls for .NET forms. I’m using them in a couple of projects at the moment. I especially like the IM style pop-up notifier.
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