With Glyphfriend 2.0 being released [http://rion.io/2017/01/18/a-new-year-a-new-glyphfriend/], one of the points of emphasis for the re-write was to allow members of the community to more easily add support for their favorite glyph families. This comes in addition to all of the other great benefits

Although not a great deal of it has been in the public, quite a few things have been going on with Glyphfriend [https://github.com/rionmonster/Glyphfriend], my Visual Studio extension that provides intellisense previews for all of your favorite icon fonts. As of writing this post, Glyphfriend 2.0

It's been around three months since the last major release for Glyphfriend [http://rion.io/2016/07/01/new-and-improved-glyphfriend-1-5-released/], which consisted of quite a few new additions and a few minor housekeeping issues. This latest release focused quite a bit on a different animal entirely: performance. What'

Glyphfriend continues to exceed my expectations for my first open-source project so I thought I would write a short post on some of the recent additions to the extension for its 1.5 release. What's New In 1.5? Since the last post on 1.3 [http://rion.

The thought of creating a Visual Studio extension really had never crossed my mind until attending the annual Microsoft MVP Summit in 2014 and listening to Mads Kristensen [https://github.com/madskristensen] give a talk on developing them, which was just the amount of inspiration that I needed at the

One of the most exciting things about working on an open-source project has always been the community involvement. This interaction allows for anyone to make feature requests, report issues or even fork the project and make it their own. Glyphfriend has seen a huge spike in downloads since the release

Apparently when you build a Visual Studio extension that is based on third-party libraries, it's quite important to remember that things like these change a lot. So I took an hour or so this week and decided to bring Glyphfriend up to speed. What is Glyphfriend (again)? Glyphfriend

During the Microsoft MVP Summit in November of this year, Mads Kristensen [https://twitter.com/mkristensen] held a session on Visual Studio Extensibility and walked through the process of creating extensions for Visual Studio that can do all sorts of things and make the lives of developers easier. Extensions can