I’ve had a lot of interest in my SMS Gateway app since this post. SMS gateway consist of two components : SMS Gateway AddinThis is an Outlook addin that adds a new toolbar to your Outlook instance. The toolbar allow the user to choose a mobile / cellphone number (from their contacts) and enter a [...]
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SMS Gateway using WM6 and ActiveSync
October 2nd, 2008
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Recently I have wanted to be able to send SMS messages to my contacts without having to pick up my phone and mess around with the mini keyboard (I wanted to do it directly from PC, but have the message still send by the phone… There are solutions around that allow you to send [...]
Is agile an excuse for sloppy project management
March 27th, 2008
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I was listening to one of Scott Hanselman’s podcasts this morning and Scott made a comment about people thinking that agile methodologies were and excuse for sloppy project management (NOTE: Scott wasn’t of this opinion, he just stated that some other people thought this). I am fully bought into SCRUM, and whilst we don’t implement [...]
Redirector HttpModule
December 19th, 2007
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Originally I had my website set up to default to my blog (so dasBlog was installed at the website root level instead of in a /blog subfolder). Recently I have been writing some Web Applications and wanted to restructure my website so that there is a subfolder for each app / main area (blog, projects, [...]
Too many hex calculators around
October 22nd, 2007
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Just recently we have been interviewing for a new developer. I have found it incredulous, the amount of people with considerable experience that cannot do hex / dec conversions. One of the things we do during an interview is to have people write code – this is normally a short 10 minute test where we [...]
GeoRss for dasBlog
September 8th, 2007
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I have completed stage one of GeoRss enabling dasBlog. In the config page I added some options for enabling GeoRss, specifying a default lat/long and enabling ‘integration’ with Google maps. There is also an option to use the default lat/long for any non geocoded posts. If GeoRss is enabled then the edit entry screen [...]
Mix UK using social networking tool
August 28th, 2007
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I registered for Mix:UK a few weeks ago and today got an email from the Mix team about a social networking tool they are using to help people make the most of the conference. They are using backnetwork, which allows creation of profiles, blogging, photos, adding friends / colleagues etc (all the usual social networking stuff). [...]
MSCRM Importing Does Not Honor Create Dates
August 20th, 2007
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Some of the code I have for importing data (from ACT! 2000) to MS CRM creates new ‘PhoneCall’ activities / objects. The problem is, that it seems MSCRM does not allow you to programmatically modify the ‘create date’. Here is the code I use… phonecall pc CrmDateTime start = new CrmDateTime(); [...]
dasBlog 2.0 Released
August 16th, 2007
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So dasBlog 2.0 (running under AS.NET 2.0 and medium trust) is now released. Scott has a great write up on it. I have been running this web site on it for a few weeks now and it’s been fine. We sneaked in a couple of last minute features (one of mine was a new macro [...]
C# class to update DynDNS
June 19th, 2007
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I’m in Western Mass (Westboro, MA) again this week and while that normally means 16 hour days (there is nothing much else to do but sit around a hotel room so why not…), this week I decided to work on a personal project for a bit. Part of it was some code to check a machines public [...]
