Last night, I installed OutTwit, a way to tweet directly from Outlook. It creates messages directly in Outlook for each incoming Tweet, so it fits in with my normal workflow - all communication goes through Outlook. It even has a box to write your own tw… more »

A few weeks ago, I got some ambition to update my blog skin - minor tweaks, really, but one of the things I did add was a BlogRush widget (FYI, that link includes my referral code). If you're in a feed reader and curious, click through to see it. BlogR… more »

The Wife is gone tonight, so one of the things I did after The Girls went to bed was to finish of my last podcast in my queue - emptying my queue for the first time since before The Boy was born two months ago. Before he was born, I was pretty good about… more »

Now that we've put the NuSoft Framework out there, I figured it would be a good time to talk a little bit about why we use it internally at NuSoft, and we felt it was valuable enough to release to everyone. Before the NuSoft Framework, just about every… more »

One of the things that I've struggled with as a developer is keeping documentation in synch with the code I'm writing. To alleviate that, I'm always looking at ways I can represent documentation in my code. For example, at NuSoft, we have a basic set of… more »

I'm a huge fan of using a second monitor, and up until recently, I have been doing that regularly. That was until recently, when I started to think it might be causing performance issues for me. None of this is hard and fast evidence. It's all anecdot… more »

NuSoft Solutions, my place of employment, has decided to release the NuSoft Framework, a business object framework we use on a lot of our custom development projects, as an open source project on CodePlex. I'm very excited about this. I was part of the… more »

I'm working on a project on CodePlex (more details to follow soon), and wanted an easy way to interact with CodePlex's source control. It's Team Foundation Server underneath, so I could have used Team Explorer, but the project I'm working on isn't techni… more »

I first saw AutoHotKey on Scott Hanselman's awesome tool list. As a side note, he's updated his list for 2007. Anyway, I'd looked at AutoHotKey and it looked pretty cool, but I never really had a use for it, until I upgraded to Vista. I use SlickRun, a… more »

I've resisted using Windows Live Writer for a while. Why did I resist? Because I couldn't get it to work with b2evolution, and without that, it was pretty much useless. With the release of the Window Live unified installer, I decided to give it a try… more »