Month: September 2005

NeoMem

Neomem looks like a really neat little organizer. I played around with it a bit yesterday. I’d probably switch to it over my current organizer, Vault, if only there was a keyboard shortcut to paste the current date & time into a note. That’s a must-have for me. It’s open-source, though, so maybe I can figure out how to add that feature myself.

spending money

My new mattress is mighty comfy. Definitely worth the money.

I ordered a new iBook today. Basically, the current standard 14″ model, with the RAM upped to 1 GB. I’m getting almost $500 for my old one, which pays for a bit under half the new one. Good deal.

Mattress shopping

As I sit here waiting for my new mattress to be delivered, I thought I’d check out the Wikipedia article on mattresses. Really, I should have checked this *before* buying a mattress, but heck, I think I made a good choice anyway. I guess I’ll find out after I sleep on it tonight.

The wikipedia article recommends spending about 10 minutes on the mattress in the store before committing to it; I’ve seen other articles recommend an hour. I just can’t imagine spending more than a minute or two on a mattress in the store, though. Anything more would just seem creepy.

DotNet Stuff

I spent some time today surfing through a bunch of .net stuff. I’ve been picking up on some things from DotNetRocks that I wanted to look into, and I just wound up following some trails. Here are a few interesting links:

  • CodeSmith — interesting tool that I need to look into.
  • DotNetNuke — I interviewed a guy today who was thinking about starting a company and writing his own CMS in ASP.NET. He hadn’t heard of DNN before. He may have been trying to do something a bit different from DNN, or he may have been reinventing the wheel. I hope he takes a look at it before he starts coding from scratch!
  • Community Server — the last time I looked at these guys, they weren’t quite done yet. Now they’re at version 1.2 and apparently quite usable. I may have to try this out, maybe for a departmental blog at work.
  • An interesting discussion of strings in .Net here. Maybe I should put some stuff about String vs. StringBuilder on the test I give to interviewees.
  • Thycotic.Data — maybe not that useful for me, but kind of interesting.
  • Rockford Lhotka — I’m kind of interested in his book, after hearing him on DNR. I honestly don’t know much about n-tier development.