Visual Studio includes an icon editor that allows you to create custom icons for your applications. I’ve found this experience to be clunky at best, and hair-pullingly frustrating in general. The un-intuitive way you set transparency was one cause of frustration. Another was the icon editor’s tendency to corrupt your icon if you ever hit Continue reading →
As a New Year’s present to myself, I recently signed up for free SSL certificates through startssl.com for my personal websites. Since these are not production websites, I did not want to pay for an SSL certificate that covers multiple domains. Instead, I hoped to use multiple (free!) SSL certificates within IIS 8 to encrypt Continue reading →