Today, well technically yesterday, I launched Frozen Whisper. It is a portfolio made for Anne Elst, model and concert photographer. Not satisfied with the implementation and maintainability of existing albums, I decided to write my own. The portfolio is simple and uses PHP to dynamically create photo albums. No database is used, instead, the website crawls itself for pictures. A text file is used to create captions, description of the shoot and more. I also implemented MooTools for the scrolling thumbnails.

Be sure to check it out!

The website was well received with comments such as "very clear", "nice and uncluttered".

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Platform: Windows XP
Versions tested: CS3, CS3

Problem:
When opening a file or creating a new document in Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop CS3, you may experience about 10 seconds of waiting time before the document actually shows up. During this time, Photoshop will appear to hang and the Photoshop window may turn blank (white) and refuse to be redrawn. After about 10 seconds, everything returns to normal and no other problems appear - until you want to open another document.

Solution:
It appears that this is due to your default printer being a network printer and the printer cannot be found. Simply setting a different default printer will make this problem go away.

It took me 2 years to figure this out, so I thought I'd post this.

For ages, Microsoft developers have been proud to have a very easy way to develop AJAX interfaces in .NET. Misguided as usual, they don't know the difference between asynchronous and synchronous requests.

But all that may be about to change. jQuery announced that Microsoft is adopting jQuery into their Visual Studio IDE. Already jQuery is being brainwashed and talking about "existing ASP.NET AJAX capabilities". Well, they're not entirely wrong since the technology is actually named "ASP.NET AJAX".

The probably bad news is that Microsoft "will be developing additional controls, or widgets, to run on top of jQuery that will be easily deployable within your .NET applications." Let's hope they're not going to turn jQuery into the abomination that J++ became.

Incidentally, if you're a serious Flash developer, you should check out the 25 lines contest.