I have published my first ever project to CodePlex. Media Mogul is a media manager which will be written in WPF using the Prism methodologies, and will have pluggable video and music modules. The core features of the application are written as command line applications to allow power users access to the feature sets without needing the front-end.

I have been feeling lost in my career choice for a while. I have always considered development and code as an artform, something that requires a very important ingredient to be successful. In the last few weeks this particular point became more prominent, and I have finally found the missing ingredient. I have found what is missing in my career, and I am surprised about where it is leading me.

I wrote my first article on SubText skinning covering the steps required to split the SingleColumn control into smaller pieces when used in custom skin development.

I spent the Easter weekend redesigning the Diago.co.za website and am extremely proud of the new theme. I also cleaned up the site a bit and also added some new LiveWriter support to SubText. I cover in detail the changes made to SubText for the new design as well as some background on the changes and other blog engines investigated for possible replacement of SubText. However SubText proved to be able to provide the required features after all.

When developing windows services one of the major issues are the testing of these services. In this article we develop a C# Windows Service that supports command line parameters and debug mode allowing for easy testing in development and remote server environments.