The Johnson Blog

A few days ago Brian introduced me to a little piece of software called Launchy that has quickly displaced my Windows Vista Start Menu Search. It is much quicker than searching with the Vista start menu and has a lot more features.
It’s like a smart Run window (you know, the window that pops up [...]

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Earlier this week I received a free copy of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 by being an Action Pack subscriber and completing a short little web tutorial and quiz. I installed it last night and decided to get the Chef code/projects converted so I could start using it.
The usual project conversion wizard popped up as [...]

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If you’re like me, and own a RadioShark and have been unable to get it working under Windows Vista, check out Snaptune One.  It’s software that does exactly what the RadioShark software does AND it works on Vista!  Thank you Snaptune One!

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My video camera was delivered Friday, so this weekend I have spent some time learning out how to use it and, more importantly, how to process/edit its video. Learning how to use it was pretty easy, aside from a little disc snafu that kept me from making use of a pack of DVD+RWs I [...]

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I just read David’s post on the usage of the word code in the context of software and have to add that, to someone in the field, hearing that usage is akin to fingernails on a chalkboard.
This got me thinking about one of my biggest pet peaves in the computer world.  I know that I’m  [...]

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I’m coining it. Defined as a process by which software requirements are gathered not by formal meetings and documents, but rather by hearsay.
They sure don’t teach you that at school.  Nor should they.
I can use it in a sentence, but I’d rather not.

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