This announcement may be yesterday’s news for some, but I just discovered Aaron Lerch’s “Kick It” plugin today and it works like a charm. If you are using WordPress AND Windows Live Writer is your go-to editor AND your posts tend to be .NET related, give Aaron Lerch’s DotNetKicks “Kick It” Counter Plugin for Windows [...]
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This may be yesterday’s news, but if you are looking for a reliable (and free) PDF converter, may I suggest PrimoPDF? I have been using it for months to convert my Word documents to PDF and it is great. Here’s a bit more: PrimoPDF is a free tool for high-quality PDF creation, comprising a user-friendly [...]
“Familiarize Yourself with Continuous Integration” has been pushed to the bottom of my tasklist for the better part of two years now. As a result, the closest I’ve come to continuous integration is “getting the latest” and hitting F5 about 1000 times in a given day. I have dabbled with test driven development, but otherwise, [...]
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I installed Vista on an insignificant laptop without consequence last night. I had no problems, but then again, I wasn’t looking for them either. My first impression was “Aren’t you a pretty little operating system?” And really, it is. I’m more excited about Vista’s look than I was when XP was first released. I remember [...]
Since being turned onto SVN no so long ago, I’ve been looking for hosting. Per a recommendation spotted here, I picked up an account with SVN Repository about two weeks ago. So far, it’s been a flawless experience. Here’s what I can tell you: I purchased their small business plan which gives me 2GB of [...]
Last week’s post about The Anti-team by Jemery Miller reminded me of a book I picked up a while back: Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers by J. Hank Rainwater. In his book, Rainwater offers tips and management techniques on everything from code reviews to managing a distributed workforce. With good humor, he discusses dozens [...]
I typically cringe when online reporting is included in a web application’s feature list. It may just be me, but I’ve always found building professional, print-friendly reports to be very difficult, very time consuming and error prone. Notwithstanding, I have produced my fair share of dynamic PDF reports over the years and with very few [...]
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Over the last few years, most of my development efforts have been focused on financial applications. Often it is my job to make the analysts’ lives easier by providing online tools to help better manage their data. But as many of you know, financial analysts love spreadsheets and the majority of information is stored and [...]
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