Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
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…
Sarah wanted ‘Ruby Ruby Ruby’ by the Kaiser Chiefs as her ringtone. Her mobile doesn’t have any easy way of connecting to a PC, so she joined one of the rip-off ‘Ringtones R Us’ services that force you into paying £4.50 / week for as many ringtone downloads as you…
Ok, so maybe this is a rant, and maybe it is due to the fact I forgot my annual Pay As You Earn (PAYE) employers return and was fined £400… But seriously… This is the government!This is the part of the government that calculates how much our taxes are!!This is…
I seem to have been dong a lot of scripting work recently – I really should be using PowerShell, but I had limited time to get this stuff done and it needed to pretty generic / simple as it would be implemented by others (some with limited knowledge of scripting…
I spent a day this past week visiting one of our Technology Partners in New Jersey. The objective was do put together a proof concept for some integration we are planning. We have some very cool stuff, about to be announced at one of the big shows coming up and…
I have just completed a new Windows Live Writer plugin. This extension allows ease insertion of geo microformat information. It allows the user to easily choose the location they want to insert (in microformat) from a Virtual Earth map and also configure how it is displayed (if at all on…
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…
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…
I was spending far too much time installing OS’s – virtual machines, lab machines etc. In order to automate / streamline this I wanted to look at not just the Windows tools as well as other options. Remote Installation Service (RIS) and unattended.txt files go so far, but during my…
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…