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January 2007 - Posts

• Windows Vista upgrades - What a mess!

  This whole story of upgrades, full installs and OEM versions of Windows is a real mess. And Windows Vista is not helping clarify what you can do, and what you can't do. Take a simple example: I have Windows XP Pro on my laptop. I want to upgrade to Windows Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:31 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• slimKEYS 1.0 is out the door!

  Boy, do I feel great. I've been working hard on the final touches to slimKEYS , so it can be called 1.0. slimLAUNCH is now extensible, and the file system portion of it has been moved to slimLAUNCH.FileSystem. A second slimLAUNCH plug-in is making his Read More... Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:30 AM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• Reinventing the wheel

  Sometimes, when coding around problems I'm encountering, I feel like I'm reinventing the wheel. It happened to me a few weeks ago, and I want to share with you the solution I came up with, so someone can tell me I've overseen something and I'm an idiot. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:08 PM by slimcode | 2 Comments Filed under: English, Technical