In Improving Your Audio: Hardware Edition, I focused on the importance of good audio hardware. No amount of post-processing is going to turn poor raw audio into a listenable podcast/webcast/screencast. It would be like trying to print a high resolution image from a grainy scan. Sure you can interpolate pixels to clean up the graininess, […]
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Over the years, I’ve done a lot of audio work between podcasts, screencasts, and webcasts. So I know a thing or two about computer audio. I don’t claim to be an expert like my friends Carl Franklin or Richard Campbell, but I’ve done enough to be able to offer some helpful tips. We’re going to […]
As many of you know, I am an independent consultant and use my own laptop when possible. I’ve got all my tools set up the way I like them and everything else that I need to be productive. Given that I work for multiple clients, I can’t join my laptop to any particular client’s domain. […]
My blog has been quiet these last few months. With the economic downturn and various friends’ contracts being terminated, I am busy making hay while the sun shines. I have clients with paying work and so I’m staying busy while the work remains available. I’ll have lots of time for blogging when I’m between contracts. […]
I was going sysprep a base image of Windows Server 2008 this morning and followed my own instructions on sysprepping Windows. I went to the installation DVD and couldn’t find sysprep. A quick google later and a bit of poking around revealed that sysprep is now installed by default on Windwos Server 2008. You can […]
A Reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 2, Verses 9 to 21 (Wikipedia | YouTube): …And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, “O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy.” And the Lord did grin and the […]
Alright, alright. I give in. I’m finally twittering along with the rest of the planet. You can find me here: http://twitter.com/JamesKovacs You can expect witty banter, scintillating insights, and breathtaking news bites… 140 characters at a time. If you’re looking for a good Twitter client and you’re running Windows, I would recommend Witty, a free […]
A big thank you to everyone who completed the ORM with NHibernate survey. The results have provided me with a lot of food for thought with respect to organizing future courses. Some answers were expected while others were surprising. Rather than bore you with the details, let me get to what you really want to […]
Earlier this week, I received three (3) complimentary copies of Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with a MSDN Premium Subscription from S. Somasegar, Corporate Vice President of DevDiv at Microsoft. This very generous gift, worth $10,939 USD per copy, was a thank you to developer MVPs for their work in making Visual Studio 2008 a […]
I’d like to thank the Academy… No, I haven’t won best-supporting actor for my portrayal of a mild-mannered .NET developer in some smash blockbuster. (At least not yet.) I’ve been accepted as a member of the JetBrains Academy. What is it all about? The Academy’s mission statement says it best: The JetBrains Development Academy fosters […]
