Review: Gmail Extension
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Chrome opened public extensions just a few days ago and already the quality of extensions available are awesome.
Take a look at the Google Mail Checker Plus extension. The preview window itself is awesome and it works for GAFYD as well.
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Show Folder Tree in Windows 7 Explorer
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I spend a lot of my time switching between folders in Windows explorer and the Windows 7 explorer has been driving me nuts lately.
Win7 (or at least the build I have) by default does not auto expand the tree view when you navigate between folders.
The result being you don’t see the usually tree hierarchy [...]
Backup your data for free
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I ran across this on ScottH’s post today. The Mozy.com gives you 2GB of backup storage for free.
Currently, I use the free SyncBack utility to backup the stuff to an extra hard-drive on the local machine. I’ve thought of using GMail Drive as a remote backup option but then I would have had to muck around with all the syncing. [...]
Microsoft vs. BlueJ
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I was first introduced to BlueJ when I started lecturing on OOP using Java at Keele (IIT) for their MSc program. Teaching first time programmers about objects and creating instances using the BlueJ IDE was a ‘wow’ moment.
A couple of years later I’m sitting at the regional MVP Summit in Singapore and watching a presentation [...]
Counting my blessings
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Happy New Year everybody!
Looking back, 2006 for me has been a very special year and one that I’m thanking God for blessing me so wonderfully.
I got married to the love of my life, nearly ten years after we fell madly in love with each other. I switched jobs to go back to my old company [...]
Windows Live Writer
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Microsoft just released Windows Live Writer today and I’m guessing this is going to replace BlogJet as my default editor. Get it here.
Just a quick summary of the features:
Works with all great blog tools
WYSIWYG (literally), this is done by downloading your style/theme. Your editor shows up just like your actual blog
Uploading pictures (wow, just noticed [...]
March user group meeting today
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If your a .NET developer in Colombo and are into developing smart client applications make sure you don’t miss the user group meeting today. We have two sessions with one be Wela focusing on the current Windows Forms 2.0 and the other by Isuru on WPF, the next big thing in client development.
Plus we also [...]
Leaving Microsoft
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A lot of you guys already know that I left Microsoft Sri Lanka after being on the job for just five months. The big question everyone wants to know is. Why?
This quote from the the classic Mythical Man Month says it all: The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his [...]
I’m back!
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Dudes. Start your aggregator engines!
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Please update your feeds
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To all you guys who are reading this through an aggregator please update your feed subscription to use http://feeds.feedburner.com/merill as this will contain all my posts in the future.
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