Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

The third beta of my new application, Runner’s Log, is now available. Beta 3 includes many new features and bug fixes, including some graphing features which are especially useful. Here’s a screenshot from the new version:

More information and download links are here.

One of the nice things about having a Software Assurance subscription at work is that I have access to Windows Vista Enterprise, which comes with all sorts of goodies and can be downloaded straight from microsoft.com. Now, the way volume licensing is handled is completely different than it was in Windows XP, so I was [...]

One neat feature in Visual Studio I came across today is auto-incrementing build numbers. You can use this to avoid having to configure or write an external tool or version control system just (although you should be using the latter anyway).
To enable it, just open AssemblyInfo.cs in your project, and change the AssemblyVersion setting to [...]

It looks like my initial optimism for RSS feeds in Outlook 2007 may have been a bit premature. I noticed last week that a few of my feeds weren’t updating (I actually noticed this with a few rarely updated feeds even longer ago, but when digg has no new stories, you know something is wrong). [...]

From The New York Times:
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 — Palm Inc., the maker of hand-held computers, has hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the challenge posed by Apple’s new iPhone.
The designer, Paul Mercer, a former Apple computer engineer, began work three weeks ago at Palm on a line [...]

WiFi support in Windows Mobile is horrible. I received an HP hx2495 recently, and I simply could not connect it to an encrypted wireless network, either at work or at home. I doubt it was anything wrong with the access points or a configuration issue; I’m very familiar with wireless security, and tried pretty much [...]