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We’re working on a client project where one of the requirements was a Sparkle-style updating mechanism. For those of you who are Mac folks, you’ll be familiar with the Sparkle “A new version of YOUR FAVOURITE APP is available!” window, with the options to skip, remind me later, or install the update.

Fortunately, there are at least two open-source versions of Sparkle for .NET programmers:

Jamie sent me a link to a great review of the Business of Software conference, and before you think I'm going to go off on one of my business-analyst posts, I'm actually going to talk about "dogfooding".

I was lucky enough to have a meeting at MaRS with two very interesting genomics researchers to get a sense of what functionality they would like to see in our Samples product. One of them was hoping to see, at some point in the future, a connection between his benchtop devices and his mobile hand-held.

As Mini reported, Microsoft has finished shipping Microsoft Layoff 2009, to middling response. Microsoft laid off roughly 5% of their workforce in an effort to appease Wall Street and improve their stock price.

The Stopwatch class  is a quick and easy way to get executing timings from your code.

The example code below shows how to get the execution time from a section of code: