In my last blog entry I mentioned a couple tools I use for tracking time. Today a forum posting mentioned the difficulty of doing accurate project estimates. I’ve made mistakes on both sides of the estimation game, and documented a couple of them here. I’ve been doing this for years but I confess I still need to work on some of these points.
I haven’t written many blog entries lately. I keep saving up material that I think would be interesting but somehow I never get to publishing it. Right now I’m looking at about 25 unpublished blog drafts, most of which will never get published. This is just an FYI that I intend to start publishing on a fairly regular basis. Rather than full articles I will post mostly one-of little bits of insight that I think will help people with their development. Please let me know if you prefer frequent tidbits or less frequent indepth explanations and commentary. I’m sure I’ll sprinkle in some of those now and then too.
On another blog I read which focuses on Excel, the author is wondering whether he should keep the Archives sidebar (to the right) with the list of links by Month/Year. I’m wondering about that too.
I’m highly amused at attempts I’ve seen in public forums to munge email addresses.
If you’ve subscribed to this blog you probably received some automatic pings recently that changes have been made.
My first book, Using DesignBais, will be available soon. Here’s the current status. Comments and suggestions welcome.
I have code that updates the Outlook Calendar from MV apps. I decided to hook it up with DesignBais. This is just too cool.
Over a year ago I posted some freeware for Microsoft Outlook which eliminates junk out of email Subject lines. It really helps when searching and sorting. I update it periodically and post the changes for whomever is interested. I just made a number of small changes recently, so I decided to tell you a little about it here and point you to the latest update.
Once in a while this question comes up about what to do when the user hits the Back button in a browser app. Well, the italian in me says "break their fingers"
, but most of my colleagues aren’t italian, so here’s a solution for the rest of you.