Development (General) 10x Developers and 10x Projects In addition to Scott’s and many, many other 10x Developer posts here are opinions from someone labeled ‘hyper-productive’ on most projects. Key Points 10x is a zone we enter at times, it
3D Printer Should I buy a 3D Printer? Thinking of buying a 3D Printer? Let's give that thought a quick reality-check... I was ready for a somewhat hobbyist experience but it took way longer than expected to have the printer assembled
Technology Compacting Virtual Machines (VirtualBox and VMWare) Google has never linked me directly to this information, just theories. One day time permitted me to run careful tests so I am sure these techniques are correct/ efficient: Simple tricks to reduce
Other Reduce back and/or neck pain with a 50 cent cardboard box Virtually all software developers eventually experience neck and/or back pain. Mine gradually increased from light neck pains in 1995/6 to being unable to work one day in 2001. Doctor's advice: "
Technology Bye-bye Mac OS X, hello Win7 Using DOS and Windows since the mid 80's it was time for a change. Vista was never reliable on any of the three machines I tried, Microsoft fanboys were killing creditability in the
Atlanta Atlanta User Groups I recommend A friend just asked me what .Net groups are good these days. Atlanta is the Software Capital of the South which means we have many great groups in town and I watch them
Technology Deleting data before donating This was so easy I felt obliged to blog it. Under our house rule 'not used it in a year, so it has to go', our old P4 laptop is being donated. It
Technology Google's shiny new Browser Chrome is out, download it here: http://www.google.com/chrome. I know the title post was a little obvious, a quick web-search shows a stack of hits for it already :( Chrome is
Add new tag DD-WRT on Linksys WRT54G v8 Update: Since writing this post in 2008 Linksys have produced v8.1 and v8.2 routers which may not be compatible with the instructions here. Luckily there are now 'official' guides for the
Technology Google Reader - Gears and List View Shawn (the ADO Guy) pointed me to Google Reader last Summer and that spelled the end of my Blog Lines use. Both are web based readers, and ideal for reading RSS feeds at
Technology Microsoft Architecture Journal Why was I not aware of this? It is a free quarterly print/web publication, after scanning the back issues it looks more useful than the MSDN Magazine is lately: Sign up here:
Atlanta Speaking at IASA Atlanta: May 9th This should be fun a night, I will kick off with a light hearted look at Cruise Control - it is amazing how many projects still do not use Continuous Integration. My plan
Technology LinkedIn's second wind Like many busy people I used to politely decline requests to join LinkedIn - a social networking website for professionals. A few weeks ago I finally gave it a try and on uploading
Podcasts SecurAble - is your DEP working Steve Gibson of GRC fame spits out another useful tool: It simply displays if some newer hardware features are available on your PC. The screenshot is verification that the 64 bit PC I
Technology Linux web servers are case senstive When re-hosting this blog I decided to go with an engine that published plain-jane html. The main reasons are: . Simplicity of hosting . Speed of pages to appear (i.e. no ASP.Net engine
Technology Bye File Server, hello NAS NAS, or Network Attached Storage is finally affordable to use at home. For a few weeks I have been running two $70 Coolmax CN-550 devices: This is an external USB drive with an
Technology Routers with Hard Drives? What a great idea Asus are the first out of the gate with one: A big sell to me is: Hide one in your attic or coal house and you have a theft proof network drive. This
DIY Cat-5 Wiring: Order matters - Duh! This may be common knowledge to everyone but me. In our new house I made two long cat-5 cables to span from a switch to the 2nd xmbc xbox and a PC in
IPTV IPTV: Democracy Player Update (2nd July): Since this post I have reverted back to using Juice Receiver which although not designed for video has fewer glitches. If anyone knows of a more reliable solution please let
Technology Macromedia Flash: Standard equipment in the new Jaguar XK Normally my love of all things with wheels is tempered for this blog but this news is an utter shock and has to be shared. Unfortunately there is no mention of the OS
Technology SysInternals Root Kit Revealer Episode nine of Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast covered Rootkits - I thought I knew what a root kit is but was wrong. As always Steve’s podcast starts out very
Technology RANT: Robotic Fish (with pics) By now you may well have heard about the Robotic Fish that the BBC covered yesterday: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4313266.stm This was another occasion where I
Technology Tabbed Browsing in IE6 This news is at least two weeks old: The latest MSN Toolbar allows tabbed browsing in IE6. It works great and I have not used Firefox since installing it: http://toolbar.msn.com/
Development (General) Free Tools from SysInternals: Watch your File System, Registry and more There are some great free tools over at http://www.sysinternals.com/. Get them now before someone like Computer Associates buys the company and starts charging for them. Personally, one tool in particular
