Have you ever been in one of those meetings where it seems that everyone in the company is there, even though they don’t need to be? I think everyone has and it is especially frustrating when you are one of the ones that doesn’t really need to be there.
Well, based on a web site I saw a few weeks ago (the link escapes me at the moment), I wrote a little Windows Mobile app that will calculate just how much any given meeting is costing you and your clients.
It’s a pretty simple application...
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I have an HTC Windows Mobile phone (touch screen + keyboard). For the last several weeks, I’ve been using a trial version of Twikini to access my Twitter stream. I really got to like it. There are a few things I’d like improved. For example, on refresh it seems to have to get the whole stream and reload it rather than just getting updates since the last request. Also, it does a timeline refresh after I tweet instead of just adding mine to the list on the client side....
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I'm using this post to test PreCode -- a code snippet formatting plugin for Windows Live Writer. It uses SyntaxHighlighter on the client side and this plugin just sends the needed code to my blog engine. As a test I thought I'd just add a couple short snippets, using some of the different available options. //C#, using PRE
bool b = true;
' VB, using TEXTAREA, "Showing Columns" Dim b as Boolean = True
' VB, using PRE, Starting at line #20
Dim i as Int32
i = 1
i += 3
M...
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I've been using the free version of TimeSnapper off and on for some time now, but pretty regularly over the last few weeks since I started my new job. I'm doing billable work again, and am notoriously bad at getting my time entered. TimeSnapper helps by taking screenshots at some interval throughout the day and allowing me to play them back like a movie. I've been thinking about getting the Pro version for a couple weeks because there are a few more features that could be helpful.&#...
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If you attended a VS2008 InstallFest in the last couple months and registered your trial copy of VS2008, you have probably received the final media in the mail in the last day or two (or probably will in the next day or two). Someone sent me a note today asking about activated the installed trial version with the "real" software key. He (and I) thought that it would be done from within the VS2008 IDE. We were wrong. In case anyone else is missing it like we were, thi...
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I'm on a roll here with the little utilities... My dad called the other day as he was leaving his office (in California). Due to the nature of his business and the way their network is setup, he and his team work with a large number of folders on a network share. Each of these folders contains information about a particular project or potential project, and they are all contained within a single parent folder. For example, the parent folder might be P:\Projects, and there may b...
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Many times I find myself with way too many files, folders and shortcuts on the desktop for things that I am currently working on and/or testing. That's in addition, of course, to the things I have on the desktop because I use them all the time. Because of the way I've grown to work over the last several years, having an overly cluttered desktop makes me inefficient. In fact, I've found that I need to have certain types of icons in certain places, and "empty space" on the d...
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I don't think I've written about this tool yet, but it's one of my favorites. Microsoft has release (on Codeplex) a SQL Server Hosting Toolkit (it's free). The entire toolkit is, I'm sure, full of goodness, but there is one part in particular that I really get a lot of use out of it. I just shared it with Gerry to help him get his blog back up and running (finally), so I thought I'd post about it here. The part that I'm in love with is the Database Publishing Wizard (download).&...
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I downloaded the latest beta of Windows Live Writer* a couple days ago and have finally gotten around to making a post with it. I didn't have any real issues with the previous version, although there were a couple things I would have liked changed. Applying tags (categories) to a post is not any easier now than it was with the previous version, but it is harder to forget now. There is a setting that causes WLW to remind me to add categories before posting. A nice friendly...
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Brian Scott released a new version of Cropper a couple days ago. I missed the announcement due to RSS reader issues, but I was fortunate enough to get to poke around with it in advance for a couple days. It's been about a year since the last release, and I was beginning to wonder if version 1.8 was going to be "it".
Cropper is one of those little apps that I have that I couldn't imagine not having. I'm glad to see that development has picked up again.
Now I should just buckle...
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