After a lot of work and several revisions, the new version of DerekErdmann.com is ready to go!  It’s pretty bare-bones for now, but I plan on adding a lot more functionality in the future.  Currently, the site consists of only my blog, and the tutorials section of my old site has been completely removed.  I wanted to focus on making this a platform that I could easily build upon later, and the design and structure I’ve put together should do that well.

The Projects section will hold all of the things I put together on the side.  Right now it only includes my Windows 7 / Windows Live 2009 Skin for Digsby, but more will be coming down the road.

For now, comments are open for everyone, but I would like to use Facebook Connect and other methods to authenticate users.  I’ll also be adding a portfolio section, but that may not happen for some time.  The most challenging part will be regular posts, which I’m hoping will be at least one each week.

If you want, you can subscribe via RSS and follow me on Twitter.  Plus, if you have any thoughts on the new design, features you’d like to see, or questions about anything, feel free to let me know in the comments.

Was trying out a new piece of software today when I discovered a new keyboard shortcut in Windows 7.  If you hold Ctrl+Win+Up, your window will automatically resize to half the height of your screen and move to the top.

The same thing works with the down key to move the window to the bottom of the screen.  Watch out though, the window won’t snap back to the center of the screen like it does after using Win+Right or Win+Left, so you’ll have to resize it again manually.

UPDATE: I'm not entirely sure what was causing the size-changing, but the effect no longer seems to be ocurring.  It may have been some piece of software that had been installed on my computer at the time.  Ctrl+Win+Up does not seem to resize windows in any way.