Well, rather than go to the trouble of coming up with a new template, I’ve decided to just get rid of the rounded edges and stick with what the current template, only bigger. Why the hell all these templates are designed for 640×480 screens I will never know. Honestly, if you’re restricted to 640×480, you’re probably not interested in what I have to write about. In fact, you’re probably busy downloading the latest virus or worm so you can send it out to your friends, believing it’s going to get you free gifts from Bill Gates. Save yourself the trouble and unplug your computer from the wall right now. I’m tired of getting all this fucking SPAM from your PWNED!!11!!111!!!!!ONE!!111!11!!11!!!! drone computer.

In other news, I’ve been working like fucking crazy, and I’m not talking about management stuff, I’ve been writing installers and reviewing code for the last two weeks solid. It’s a big mess, because I generally shouldn’t be doing much coding, but we’re really trying to finish our project on time and installers are the main place that I can help out. Writing installers is a horrible pain in the ass. It’s the most tedious thing I’ve had to do since I graduated from college. And it’s extremely complex. Have you ever seen the shit that goes on in the windows registry? Try downloading Regmon from sysinternals.com and give it a whirl. You wouldn’t believe what goes on when windows is just sitting around, let alone when you’re actually installing something with a kernel service. Jeebus. I’m particularly writing an msi installer. We have the wise tools, but in order to fit in with our gigantor installer, it’s easier to write our installer parts using orca. I can’t recommend it because I refuse to recommend anything that doesn’t have an undo function. Seriously. Undo. That’s a dealbreaker. But sysinternals, you should check them out. Every tool they have on their site is worthwhile. Debugview is one that I have used a lot in the past.

While on the developer tools kick, I recently started using Compare It! as a differ tool. It’s a million times better than any other differ I’ve ever used. And much like Orca, there is one feature that totally makes this product. Syntax highlighting. Previous differs that I’ve used have sucked ass. Windiff is the worst joke I’ve ever seen in my life. The perforce differ is alright, but lacks by letter or by word diffing and can’t be adjusted to do a vertical split view, which is extremely useful, in my opinion. After using perforce forever, I used tkdiff, which has the split view, but is a horrible pain in the ass, like most open source software. Configuration was a bitch with this thing; it consisted of a bunch of nonsensical, undocumented switches. Sounds an aweful lot like the linux operating system, doesn’t it? Either way, I actually gave that shit up and went right on back to perforce diff, it may not have had the by letter or by word diff capability, but it was still easier to read than that tkdiff shit. Then someone turned me on to csdiff, which to it’s credit is pretty good, and the price is definitely right (free). But I couldn’t get used to the fact that it doesn’t go along with the F7 previous, F8 next shortcut keys I’m used to and I’d rather use a different differ than learn new shortcut keys. And it didn’t have syntax highlighting. But Compare It! has it all. And when you have to diff over 300 files to diff in a day, you’ll thank me for it. You’re going to have to pay for it though.