Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
This is the first in a series of tips about Workplace Productivity. If you want to get noticed, promoted, a pay rise or simple get out of the door quicker at the end of the day then these may be helpful. Get a system in place for recording your task…
I just found this Microsoft KB article which is a very comprehensive list of what services use what ports. Anyone working with enterprise software solutions or Microsoft back end infrastructure should find it useful. GEO 51.4043197631836:-1.28760504722595
Too much effort reading my ramblings ? Want to listen instead ? Now you can !! Courtesy of the excellent odiogo, the excellent text to speech service. This is a free service that bloggers can use, it takes your RSS feed, splits it out to each separate post and then…
One of the things I find really helpful in terms of motivation (for running) is having easy visibility of weekly, monthly and total mileages, times, paces etc. So, a couple of weeks ago I bought myself a Nike+ Sportband. This promised it all – a senor that fits in your…
A while back I restructured my website so that this blog no longer started at the root, instead starting from /blog. This was so that I could introduce some other web apps and have a subfolder for projects etc. One of the pains of this restructure was modifying all the…
I was recording some audio earlier today and the quality from my cheap, generic headset/microphone was woeful., so I searched around for a service that I could make a telephone call into and it would record the spoken audio and give me a WAV or MP3file. I came across http://drop.io…
Now that I have moved us over to Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) completely, I have been fighting with Outlook to get a decent user / email experience. It just doesn’t seem to flow well – I got the SMTP/IMAP send/receive stuff all set up and working correctly, but…
Just changed all my email / calendar stuff to Google Apps for Your Domain (GAYD). It was a breeze to do, took around an hour all in and now all email access is IMAP and Web. The reason I chose this setup was so that all email and calendar data…
I have been playing with Twitter recently and thought it might be neat to see if I could post a ‘tweet’ from PowerShell. There is a great Google Group that discusses their API. The APIs are all REST based and really easy to use – the only complexity is that…
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,…