Development Notes, News and Ramblings
With TimeSnapper you can play back your week just like a movie. You can play it at any speed you like, and jump in at any time you like.
When it’s time to fill out that dreaded timesheet, TimeSnapper is a savior. No need to tear your hair out trying to remember where all the time […]
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The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 System View Map shows the key system views included in SQL Server 2005, and the relationships between them.
Have Gmail? Try this trick!
Personal Made Public: Sorting your email with GMail
Ever needed to submit a valid email address to register for access to a website or make an online purchase? Ever wondered if in doing so your address wouldn’t end up sold to or stolen by some spammer. Ever wondered who your address […]
One of the all time favorite object of contention between developers and marketing / sales / bus dev is the amount of time it ought t take to create a specific piece of functionality. According to Scott Guthrie, the following numbers are a matrix used by the ASP.NET 2 / Visual Studio group :
“….Feature development […]
I’m only on the second song, but already digging Pandora. It attempts to create a playlist of songs based on you favorite artist or title. I’ll update this a little later when Pandora is done.
I just watched the video of The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Strange that horror movie can have such a hopeful under-tone. One of the reason why I was interested in seeing it is because our Bible teacher’s son was a subject matter expert on this movie. They even named the main character after him (last […]
There is a good chance we may end up trying to write our own datasource for the project I’m on at the moment. But first we need to understand all thats involved. Nikhil wrote a series of articles on his blog that help out.
“….ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a powerful new declarative data-source model. Among other things, […]
Haven’t tried this yet, but it certainly looks interesting. And if it provides some comptetition / alternative to CodeSmith I’m happy.
“…….iCodeGenerator is an Open Source template based generator. It is very easy to use because it’s own simple sintax.It can generate Data Access code for any programming language, like C#, Java, SQL, PHP, Perl […]
A sign of the Internet times we live in. One can attempt to rewrite history by editing a Wikipedia entry to make oneself look better…..
“…..Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in […]
Brad Wilson has some brief notes on the use of SetUp/Tear Downs. Just a bit of reference material …..
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Scads of free and shareware utilities. Nice.
“….There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This list features my personal pick of the “best of the best.”
All these utilities in this list have been featured in past issues of of my free […]
Mini RDL looks promising if it works as advertised. Its a more dev centric approach to creating SQL Server Reports
How can I use it in my application?Using the miniRDL.dll function “GenerateRDL” you pass 3 parameters, P1: the miniRDL definition as string P2: an array of DataTables P3: the Parameters (usually critera information) as […]
Jon Galloway has a link to this nifty tool.
I just read about DiffDoc on Buck Hodges’ blog. This thing’s amazing - it shows differences between all sorts of businessy document formats - MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Wordperfect, PDF, RTF, and HTML
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