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Twitter is one of those applications / services that I’ve had trouble getting to grips with. For me it seems it’s like shouting about what you are doing right now to a huge audience that is not listening. Who really cares that @kjhughes is heading to the shops to get…
I’ve been toying around with creating an Outlook addin recently that adds a new panel to the main Outlook inspector window. Actually it is going to be a ‘folding’ or ‘collapsing’ windows similar to the docked ToolWindows in Visual Studio. Anyway, the stuff around getting the correct window handle for…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…