Category Archives: software

Spread Firefox!

By jonezy | Published: June 16, 2008
Tomorrow, the Mozilla foundation is releasing the latest version of the Firefox browser. While they are at it they are also trying to set a record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period. If you aren’t using Firefox tomorrow would be a great time to try it, it really is [...]
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Why can’t I do that?

By jonezy | Published: June 16, 2008
I just had to post this video I came across the other day, it’s a google tech talk and the presenter is Aza Raskin (Son of Jeff Raskin, the guy who started the macintosh project for apple).  He’s also one of the founders of Humanized who make the most excellent Enso launcher product, a company [...]
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Birthday Contest @ CodeSqueeze

By jonezy | Published: June 8, 2008
Max Poole is holding a contest at his blog to give away a copy of Bamboo 2.0 (continuous integration software) and a copy of Slick Edit (suite of add-ons for visual studio) I’ve never used the Slick Edit product but I’ve got lot’s of experience using Atlassian products (Jira and confluence) and would love to get [...]
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How often do you commit?

By jonezy | Published: May 31, 2008
I was working on some code today and was getting ready to do a check in and I thought to myself, should I be checking this code in? I made tiny change that would end up being part of a bigger refactoring of some tests I was writing, I wasn’t sure if I would be [...]
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What do you do when the shit hits the fan?

By jonezy | Published: May 13, 2008
To cut to the point, I was promoting some changes for a client last night. It was an update to part of our product that allows our customers to send automated and one off emails to lists of subscribers. I had done promotions similar to this in the past (in fact i’ve probably done the [...]
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RescueTime: One month later

By jonezy | Published: April 30, 2008
It’s been about a month since I started using Rescuetime, it’s been a pleasant and eye opening experience. A few of my initial assumptions have proven to be on the mark and some of the others not so much I don’t spend nearly as much time on my computer as I thought I thought I was spending [...]
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Be passionate about what you do

By jonezy | Published: April 6, 2008
The other day at lunch a co-worker of mine and I were talking about hockey. Our conversation ended up at Alexander Ovechkin, left winger for the Washington Capitals. Whether you are a hockey fan or not this guy is a sight to see on the ice. Every goal he scores is like his first goal, every [...]
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RescueTime

By jonezy | Published: March 25, 2008
RescueTime is a web based tool that allows you to track, categorize and report on how you spend your time while using your computer. I should mention up front that you do have to install a small app that sits in your system tray. This app sends the usage information to the RescueTime website. The value [...]
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ASP.NET Mvc Source Available

By jonezy | Published: March 21, 2008
Just posted on Scott Guthries blog this morning, you can now download the source code for Microsoft’s ASP.NET Mvc extensions. Grab it at Codeplex
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so easy a caveman could do it?

By jonezy | Published: March 21, 2008
I love simple things, easy to use, easy to understand. File Dropper is simplicity at it’s best, no sign-up, no complicated forms.  Just plain simple and obvious choices. +1 File Dropper
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