New Year

Well, better make a post before the first month of the year is up! I have lots of reading to do due to purchasing many manning eBooks:

• .NET multithreading
• Continuous Integration Testing
• Windows Phone 7 Development
• C# in Depth 1 & 2

Now, if I can just find the time and also a better ebook reader as my 1st gen iRiver iStory is getting annoying!

NIK Software Bundle Purchase

So, you read a professionals blog (David Ziser's) and you decide after hours of searching that you will spend your dollars on some genuine professional level software because you can get a discount of 25% from the bundle.

You then login to said website and after the coupon code you only have to pay $239.96USD.

Fantastic you say! So you proceed to checkout, yep, enter details. Great they have paypal support so you enter valid shipping details, login to paypal, proceed with request and all looks good.

Well, things change from there. NIK says I have to use the local distributer. Thats ok I say and I enter the site, enter my information then try to use the coupon code and BAM! Code not enabled!

No matter how hard I try I cannot get the discount I am after to get the price down to what I am willing to pay.

I will send an email to NIK and hope this can be rectified as I believe a coupon code should be International and not restricted. If it is restricted these companies need to inform us decision makers that hey, you can 25% off with this code, but only if you are in the US.

This post sounds negative to NIK and it's not supposed to be, it's supposed to highlight the International world and how things need to be clear to a purchaser so that the seller does not frustrate or loose a sale to a potential customer.

I look forward to what NIK Software have to say.

Fly On Wood

I finally made the plunge and purchased Adobe Lightroom 3 full edition as well as getting Scott Kelby's excellent resource Lightroom 3 book for digital photographers

This has increased the quality of my photographic output by putting those finishing touches onto an image to increase its quality to the viewer (if my compositions can be considered good quality that is!).

Now if I can only find time to get more photographic images! If you have any recommended photographic blogs/rss feeds/journals, don't hesitate to drop a note.

Lightroom 3

I finally made the plunge and purchased Adobe Lightroom 3 full edition as well as getting Scott Kelby's excellent resource Lightroom 3 book for digital photographers

This has increased the quality of my photographic output by putting those finishing touches onto an image to increase its quality to the viewer (if my compositions can be considered good quality that is!).

Now if I can only find time to get more photographic images! If you have any recommended photographic blogs/rss feeds/journals, don't hesitate to drop a note.

Flickr

I am now posting my photos to Flickr

D90 Books

My D90 books finally arrived! Now I can start learning about all the functions of my camera to hopefully educate me on how to become a better photographer.

You can track the progress on my Flickr account.

Restraining Order Granted for Microsoft's C-Sharp Compiler

When you read this, you can't help but have a little laugh!

http://blog.wekeroad.com/microsoft/your-compiler-just-isnt-that-into-you