Posts in the category “Software”

the code that runs your life

BCS Championship Game Video

BCS Championship Game Video

How cool is the World Wide Web™? Within 24 hours of the game I was able to use μtorrent to download the entire 2006 BCS Championship Game and watch it using the latest DivX player. The 2.2GB file took about 20 hours to download, but it’s worth it. I’m considering using the office projector to

College Bowl Schedule

College Bowl Schedule

College football bowl season schedules

Photoshop Tutorial – Polaroid Images

Photoshop Tutorial – Polaroid Images

In which I explain how to make digital photos look like old analog ones

Five Tips for Smarter Playlists

Five Tips for Smarter Playlists

I’ve got more than 14,000 songs in my iTunes library and I listen to music the entire time I’m in the office every day. I live and die by my smart playlists. I’ve seen more than a few tutorials lately about how to utilize this iTunes feature, so I thought I’d toss my hat in the ring with a few tips on how to make Apple’s killer app work better.

LIMIT and OFFSET in MS SQL Server

LIMIT and OFFSET in MS SQL Server

How to Hack MySQL Paging Functionality into Microsoft SQL Server

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Reason #4,213 Why People Get Frustrated with Microsoft:

Wasted Space

Can anyone tell me if I really need Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_03 and J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 3? These things are ridiculous. Each one is over 100MB! What a waste.

Please End This Song

I love Please Take Me Home from blink-182‘s “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket“. It’s a great song with one glaring problem: For some ridiculous reason they decided to pull a Nirvana on it and extend the track length of this 3:03 song to 6:06. So when I am listening to my iPod in shuffle

Football and Computers

The unsung MVP of professional football? It’s IT. Analysis systems let teams archive stats and digital video from every game.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.