Archive for the 'misc' Category
Great font for developers
May 24th, 2006I’ve downloaded Microsoft Consolas Font and it looks great!
This font is optimized for ClearType. The installation package will install the font in the system and it will set the default font for Visual Studio 2005 to Consolas automatically. However, if you want to use it in VS 2003 you have to manually change the settings.
The […]
SQL Server Express has no workload governor
March 16th, 2006I’ve used MSDE as my database engine for most of my contract projects. I’ve never had any issue with MSDE (at least none that could be avoided if I had been using SQL Server).
However, by using MSDE, sometimes I’ve had to deal with some customers’ objections regarding the ‘MSDE 5 concurrent users limit’. I think […]
New site design
February 22nd, 2006Not being completely satisfied with the look of my site I’ve finally managed to do something about it. Gavin Bowman posted a link in his blog about OSWD.com and it has been extremely useful.
I selected a design by Andreas Viklund called ‘andreas08′ and after a few tweaks here and there I have a new site […]
Google Analytics: Site overlay
February 8th, 2006I don’t know if this option has been available since the launch of Google Analytics, but is the first time I’ve clicked on it. (I’m still hooked with StatCounter.com)
This option shows your web pages with a small percentage bars located over every link. The blue bar represents the frequency each link has been clicked from […]
Getting exposure as soon as posible
February 1st, 2006I released the first version of dbdesc as soon as it was useful. It was only a command-line utility to document databases but, although it was still far from the product I would like to create, it had the core functionality ready. I followed the ‘release early, release often’ strategy and it was a good […]
Magna CRM public beta
January 9th, 2006Magna CRM, a web based CRM software product from Rapid Signal has reached public beta stage. I’ll try to find time to check it out before January 23.
Good luck!
New Google service: Google Analytics
November 14th, 2005I’ve been using a free account of StatCounter.com to track the visits to dbdesc since I’ve uploaded the website. I have to admit that at the beginning I couldn’t stop refreshing the statistics to see how many visits the site was having, studying the path of my visitors through the web, etc. Now I can […]
A very productive weekend
October 31st, 2005What a good sensation when you get “in the zone” not just a few hours but a whole weekend. This sensation is especially good if you have been in low productivity mode for several days or even weeks. This time the trigger to enter in “flow mode” has been installing the final version of SQL […]
Getting Things Done
September 22nd, 2005I’ve just read the famous book ‘Getting Things Done’ by David Allen and I liked it a lot. I liked some of the concepts the book presents like ‘open loops’ and the need to move them out of your mind. I think it’s a worth reading even if at the end you don’t implement the […]
New blog template
September 5th, 2005As you can see, I’ve changed the default WordPress style and now it’s similar to the style of the dbdesc website.
It’s easy to customize the look of a WordPress blog, even for someone who doesn’t know a lot of CSS or PHP like me. One thing that confused me at the beginning was that in […]
