Newsletter for July 11th, 2008 - Codename "Revenge of the Mini-Review"

1. Newsletter Editorial

Greetings again dear readers.  Another hot July evening.. It's 1am here in Illinois (we call it Joto hour in the irc chat channel).  1am is actually a pretty busy time on the chat channel as all the night owls are starting to feel like they better stop fooling around and start working.

The DC server admin (Gothi[C]) has been hunting down an email problem with the new member server and he thinks he's finally got it solved.  We shall see.  Thanks in part to a very generous donation we've been able to do a big upgrade of the secondary member server where we provide web space to dc users.  The new server will allow us to be more generous giving out space and hosting bigger member projects.  Actually we have a fun new idea planned for the member server in the next month or so, so stay tuned..

It's been nice for me to get back to coding on DC Software, and I've been adding a lot of new features to my Find and Run Robot program, mainly working with plugin writers to implement stuff they can build off of.  Actually in the last week a new visitor to the site has implemented a plugin that has long been sought after, one that can display Most-recently-used file lists stored by windows when you use other programs.  FARR seems to be getting some attention lately but it's never really been on the level of some of my other programs.  Doesn't really matter to be, but after I'm done with this round of FARR updates I'll switch over to my other programs like Screenshot Captor and Process Tamer, and do some updates on those.  If you have any feature requests, now would be a good time to post them.  I also have to figure out what new big DC programming project I want to start on next.

Keeping up a trends from last month, we've got lots of little mini-reviews and editorials from dc members this month.  I'm not sure what's causing this increase but it's very welcome -- everyone loves reading a good review.

Oh and don't forget, if you're planning to submit something for the the programming contest that we are currently running, you better wrap things up.  It ends on July 14th.  The winner will receive a giant MS Visual Studio bundle prize (includes all Windows OS's and office tools, worth over $10,000).