It is the end of my second day in my new job, and its been a couple of busy and informative couple of days.
Just over eight weeks ago now, I accepted a position at a company called Realise. With a very strong history in web development they are increasing the ASP .Net skillset in the [...]
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For the second installment in my mini series on Productivity and those tools that I use to increase mine, I am going to talk about the merits of a simple launcher program - SlickRun. You can find it at http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/. This free floating command utility for Windows launches programs, specific files or documents and folders [...]
Spending most of my days in front of computer screens I have manged to compile a list of tools (some of which I may have mentioned previously) that assist in my productivity. Many of these may only shave seconds off a task but if I was to add up all those seconds I believe I [...]
I have been really busy at work recently, too busy to really concentrate on anything else, even during my own time. It is funny, like most things, when I take a step back from things I can often see them much clearer and is during my own time that I often have good ideas on [...]
This is a question facing the many, many of us over the coming days, weeks and months. Vista the all new operating system from Microsoft. Now, normally with any Microsoft product (particularly the OS!) I would wait until at least the first service pack bu there is something about Vista that has me thinking! There [...]
I have made a decision, I know what I want to do in the long term future. I want to work for myself, run a company in a way that is goo practice and my own and ideally be successful at it. In the short term this is unlikely to happen but that doesn't mean [...]
It has been a long, hard slog over the last few months at work. I have put in the hours and the effort to produce something that I can happily say I am very proud of. I have been the sole developer for SK Chase since I started over a year ago now. Throughout that [...]
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It is the middle of a heatwave and not much is happening. I must admit while I enjoy warm weather and long evenings, I am not so keen on the extreme heat. I find that it tires me and leaves me with not much energy, meaning a lot doesn't happen.
Despite the heat, it was the [...]
I thought I might take a minute to mention what I was up to at work. My work is currently 2-fold. My role in continually updating the SK Chase system, is steadily growing. Following last month's launch of a fuller and inevitably more complex checkout and payment process, the next challenge is to make the [...]