Lazycoder

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We’re wrapping up this development cycle at work and you know what that means kids.

That’s right, back into meetings to determine the next cycles features. Which means I’ll have more time to do some programming at home and some skunkworks projects at work. I’ve still got my Ruby project on hold and I really want to dive into custom Automator actions and .NET 2.0 beta 2. We’ve also created a couple of really interesting controls at work that I’m hoping to open source. I’m still trying to figure out how to distribute them. Maybe I’ll be able to get a “Fred Hutch Software” site set up at work? Two of the more interesting controls at work are an auto-complete combo box/select box ASP.NET web control and a generic query web control.

NetNewsWire 2.0 and Bloglines

Wow. I downloaded the new version of NetNewsWire the other day and have been playing around with it. Trying to see if I can fit it into my existing reading workflow. I imported my Bloglines OPML list and then I noticed “New Special Subscription” in the “File” menu. Wow, they have created a way to synchronize with Bloglines. It’s not only smart enough to download your Bloglines subscription list, but to keep in sync with it and to not import duplicate subscriptions. That is one of the main reasons that I never used a client based aggregator. I always ended up having to mark items that I had already read in Bloglines as ‘read’ in whatever client RSS aggregator I was using.

The simple fact that Ranchero Software acknowledges there are other applications that do the same thing as their software and that users might want to use both sold me. I bought both NetNewsWire and Marsedit.

When Nintendo says backwards compatibility

they mean BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY.

via Joystiq

?ÄùBackward compatibility: the disc drive will accept Gamecube games. We have designed Revolution to be a virtual console, enabling it to download 20 years of Nintendo content. … It is the gaming experience that will most separate Revolution from its competitors.?Äù This is huge! It will have built in emulation for NES, SNES, N64, as well as being able to read and play GameCube games! This completely trumps Sony?Äôs two-gen backwards compatitibility in the PS3.

That explains why they made this statement early on.

Now I know many of you walked in here today with numbers swimming in your heads. …. We?Äôd like to add one more number to the mix, and that number is ?Äú2?Äù, as in two billion games. That?Äôs the number of games Nintendo has sold since we entered the business 20 years ago. …. If you?Äôre ready to move beyond pure numbers to a place where your right brain can envision the best in innovation ?Ķ. you?Äôve come to the right place.?Äù

So the Nintendo Revolution will ship with a library 2 billion games strong.(ed. It doesn’t ship with 2 billion games. I need to learn to read. RIF) Wow. A WiFi version of Final Fantasy? How will that work? The Gameboy Micro looks sweeeeeeeet. If it comes in under $100 I’ll have to consider it. If it comes in under $70 I’ll trade in my GBA SP on release day.

My friend Tom comes out of the closet

Random Access 3.0: IBM Gives go-ahead to employees to Blog On.

The IBM closet that is. Hopefully he’ll have lots of juicy tidbits that he can share about the Xbox 360′s chipset. I havent’ paid much attention to the IBM rules of blogging, but it’s interesting to see that they are defining out HOW to blog. Rules like “Don’t pick fights” and “Don’t alter previous posts unless you indicate that you have done so.” are great rules. I try to do that here.