Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
I have been using the new RSS feed feature in Outlook 2007 for some time now and absolutely love it – I’m in Outlook ALL day, it’s the centre of my communication universe and having it collate my RSS feeds just makes sense. I’m a regular listener to a few…
The company I work for (C2C) are hiring. We are looking for Technical Support Engineers to work in our Reading, UK office. We’ll consider any experience level as long as the individuals show commitment, determination to learn / succeed and have a passion for technology. You might be right out…
This week (so far) has been good – in terms of completing things, productivity and new products. First off, Microsoft finally released PowerShell for Vista. No more having to ‘play’ on my old lab machine to get to grips with this stuff. There seem to be a number of people…
I’ve been on Vista (on my work laptop) for a couple of months now and finding it really difficult to get some stuff done. I’m (directly) working on some training modules for our Archive One products and managing / assisting a couple of people who are working on Sales Video Demos…
One of the difficulties I have encountered whilst trying to change the mindset of our development team is getting buy in for the concept of ‘Committing to backlog items’. This is where the development team get together with the Product Manager(s) in a time boxed (8 hour) meeting (split into…
We had a customer issue yesterday that manifested itself as the user getting a HTTP 401 error when trying to connect to a Website (that is part of our Product). The user was logged into the domain, the virtual directory was set for ‘Windows Integrated Authentication’ so they should have been…
After a bit more investigation on the AV connection front for my Creative ZEN, I found the following : A definition of the AV pinouts for various media equipment and particularly the Creative ZEN. I already have a Camcorder Cable, so one of the tricks I found in some AV…
Isn’t Santa a nice guy. For no other reason that I had been ‘good’ all year, he brought me a shiny new black Creative Zen Vision:M 30GB. Thank You !! So far I have loaded it up with : 200 CD’s of music Just shy of 3000 photos Star Wars…
With the move to Office 2007, I am relearning a lot of the UI – where things are etc. which is a real pain – not that I’m against change, just that it’s lowering my productivity whilst I push all the Office 2007 into my head and let the Office…
I was really excited by the Blogging feature Word 2007 – It looked really good, easy to use and some of the formats you can do to a picture are pretty cool. As soon as I found it I tried to set it up with this dasBlog account – Word 2007 is…