SEAMonster Loosed to CodePlex- January 29, 2008 Well, I had good intentions. Ever since my first post about SEAMonster in October, 2007, I've wanted to refactor and clean-up the code for release. In the meantime, I've received many, many e-mails asking when that would happen. To everyone who has patiently waited, today's the day. SEAMonster is now hosted on CodePlex. Before you get too excited, know that I haven't had the time to do any clean-up (at all). I finally realized that I just had to let it loose. This is one of those "20 lines of...http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2008/01/28/seamonster-loosed-to-codeplex.aspx Helvetica: The Documentary- January 27, 2008 I ran across Jeff Atwood's blog post, Typography: Where Engineers and Designers Meet, about a week ago. Like Jeff, I've been interested in fonts and typography for a long time. As a matter of fact, I used to create bitmap fonts for the TI-994a, Commodore 64, and Atari 400800. I'm sure if I dug through enough boxes I could find a pile of old graph paper with 8 pixel x 8 pixel character sets on them! Those were the days. :-) Until Jeff's post, I hadn't heard about the Helvetica film by Gary...http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2008/01/26/helvetica-the-documentary.aspx What Do I Do Top sites, MIX08, and PDC08.- January 21, 2008 A few days ago, I received the following e-mail: Help me out here. I've been reading your blog off and on for years and I can't figure out what it is you do. Your obviously involved with the PDC and MIX conferences, you send a lifesize cardboard cutout of yourself as your resume, you've made a plug-in for Illustrator and a converter for Flash files (which rock BTW), you take amazing photos, you implement seam carving in your "spare time", you write Tivo gadgets, you taught me about continuous..http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2008/01/20/what-do-i-do-top-sites-mix08-and-pdc08.a... |