One of the first apps I loaded onto my laptop (after paving it and installing Vista Ultimate) was Windows Live Writer (which I’m using to compose this post – on a plane at 38,000 ft on my way to Bo...

I’m very impressed with the improvements in Outlook 2007. The ToDo bar is proving a real godsend – it can (optionally) display a calendar (one or more months), appointments (fill the remaining spa...

Last weekend I upgraded my work laptop to Windows Vista (Ultimate edition) and Office 2007 Professional (I believe these are actually released ‘officially’ to business customers tomorrow (30th Nov)...

At work I have been the champion of an Integration Framework for our Archive One product. This is a set of API’s, events and open file formats embedded into the Archive One products that allow cust...

At work, we use SupportSuite for support case tracking. This is a real neat product but the support is dreadful. I was running version 3.0.0.80 and there are a few problems with it, they recently ...

At work we are heavily into MAPI (we provide email archiving solutions). MAPI is Microsoft’s mainstream supported and recommended protocol for accessing Exchange. There are currently two main vers...

In the first version of my GPS Library software (written in VB6) I had a ‘Protocol’ property that indicated which protocol we were using (for example Garmin, Magellan, NMEA etc). Then, every time w...

In the first version of my GPS Library (written in VB6) I had a big horrible multiple nested if statement that handled the intelligence behind what to do when a new frame of data was received – if ...

About 4 or 5 years ago I wrote a GPS ActiveX control in VB6.0. Although it work really well (and fast), it was difficult to maintain – to be honest it was pretty messy, a large monolith with some r...

One of my gripes with dasBlog is the reporting. To get to reports I have to browse to my blog, login and then view the reports online – bit of a pain doing this every day (yes I am so vain that I l...