I just stumbled upon a cool utility that lets you create a TrueType font from your own handwriting, the result of a contest over at PCMag. Tim Sneath released a font he created using the utility, so you it looks like it works quite well. Now I just need to borrow a tablet pc for a little while… Or maybe I could pull this off with my Wacom tablet at home?
I just found myself creating a new EventArgs to go with a custom event handler in C# and I remembered the standard advice of “always derive your event args classes from System.EventArgs”. The thing is, I have no idea why you would want to do this. I don’t see any value in dealing with things in terms of the base class, and it doesn’t provide any features, so why bother?
Via Lambda the Ultimate, I found a great article on how rich client-side web apps are evolving and where things like OddPost and GMail have come from, and a bit of a look at where things are headed. This is a space that has always fascinated me; maybe I’ll get back into in the near future. I always liked the idea of a client that did a smart job of fetching and caching data, reducing roundtrips to the server. It just seemed like the right way to go, but it was fraught with perils.
After a great dinner at Chiboust, Mandy and I headed down to the waterfront to enjoy the nice summer night.
I was randomly poking around a site Tim Tabor sent me to for a review on Bloglines and I happened across a link to a CSS crib sheet by Dave Shea over at mezzoblue. If you’re doing CSS work, I highly recommend it; it’s a fantastic resource.