Over the years I have noticed that the more experienced I get, the lazier I get when it comes to interacting with a computer. Reaching for the mouse becomes more and more awkward. The more you can do with your hands on the keyboard the better, right?

An app launcher is an application that lets you launch applications without taking your hands off the keyboard. Just hit the hot key, type a few characters to match the application or file you want to open and you are done. Most launchers can do a lot more than just launching applications, e.g. open websites if you type an URL, act as a simple calculator or—as we will explore in this post—execute scripts.

This blog is using the Octopress framework for the Jekyll static site generator. When setting everything up I followed the Octopress setup guide and Rob Anderson’s instructions on how to do this on a Windows 7 machine. In this post I’ll describe a few tweaks I had to make to get it all set up.

In C# you can add folding points to the code file by using the #region directive. The question of how and when (if ever) to use this feature is an endless debate among C# developers. Some find it useful for grouping members with related functionality or by accessibility level, some just hate them.