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 ...

It has been a real busy month at work and I’ve just not had a minute. One of the big things I see on the (technical) horizon is ‘federated search’ for the Enterprise. We already have this for the ...

So a while back (31st Dec 2007), my beta license for Windows Home Server (WHS) expired and I hacked together an alternative solution. I have been updating my (almost) free/opensource alternative (...

I have been updating some of my ‘magicwords’ for SlickRun recently. This a great tool for getting focus on a particular task. Instead of having to mess about opening folders, word documents, web si...

I’ve been spending a bit of time at LifeHacker recently, there is some pretty good tips over there (it’s where I found the PointUI for windows mobile 6). One of the posts I came across was this h...

I am totally blown away by this. This is (IMHO) exactly what Windows mobile has been waiting for. I have downloaded and am using this on my HTC TyTN II (Kaiser) – works like a dream, very easy t...

It’s time to flex those scripting fingers and get your brain warmed up – The 2008 Scripting Games are coming. Put a note in your calendars – February 15-March 3, 2008. Stay tuned to the Scripting...

The king is dead, long live the king. Over the Christmas break the license for my beta of Windows Home Server ran out, so I needed an alternative backup / storage solution. I briefly considered Li...

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 an...

One of my colleagues switched me on to PowerShell Plus and I’m loving it. Code editor, snippets, values of variables, logging tools and much more, including a really neat feature called ‘MiniMode...