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Re: Enso

John — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:40:44 -0000

I'll give it a look. I'm not necessarily interested in a more powerful utility, just something with the elegance of Enso with some slight tweaks. But I'll try out ActiveWords and see if it fits my needs.

Re: Enso

John — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:50:47 -0000

I watched the demo videos and I'm not impressed with ActiveWords at all. Buzz, if you honestly think your programs have the same audience, you're sorely mistaken. Enso is elegant and straightforward. ActiveWords is straightforward and maybe more powerful, but in my opinion, unnecessarily so. Enso : Mac :: ActiveWords : PC is the best way I can describe it.

Re: Slightly more dynamic ORDER BY in SQL Server 2005

John — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:13:06 -0000

I like it Lamprey!

Re: iPhone Plan Is a Ripoff

John — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:06:28 -0000

I guess I wasn't really trying to bash the iPhone so much as point out that I think people are going to be very dissapointed with the device with inadequate and overpriced service options. T-Mobile's unlimited data/sms plan MAKES the Sidekick. The Sidekick isn't nearly as useful without the plan. For the iPhone to achieve success outside the tech-savvy and fanboys, I think it needs better a better service plan.

Re: Enso

John — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:12:14 -0000

Hi Ryan...I wrote this post before they enabled sticky keys. I tried using it with sticky keys too and it still didn't work for me (see http://john-sheehan.com/blog/index.php/enso-rev...). Not saying its a bad product, just not for me.

Re: Slightly more dynamic ORDER BY in SQL Server 2005

John — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:02:28 -0000

Hi Ken,
I kind of thought that would be the case for larger queries. I'm only using this method on a query for under 100 rows so I haven't run into any performance issues yet.

Re: Someone please defend Visual SourceSafe

John — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:39:45 -0000

Oh, I'm not leaving. The company is great and we will eventually switch to SVN. I'm just looking for things that make VSS more tolerable.

Re: Free Visual Studio Add-in: SonicFileFinder

John — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:54:09 -0000

Great tip!

Re: VS2005 ‘prop’ C# Code Snippet in VS2008

John — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:40 -0000

For default values. For instance, if I have a string property that should always have a default, I can't do that with automatic props.

Re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 - First Impressions

John — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:49:35 -0000

The phishing attacks will adapt to it so in the long run I don't see it as helpful. My bank for instance has nothing with their name in the URL for their online banking. How is highlighting the domain going to help in that case?

Re: Visual Studio 2008: First (Bad) Impressions

John — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:45:46 -0000

Fredrik, that was fixed in the VS2008 Hotfix. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/...

Re: Stupid Visual Studio Trick, Part 2

John — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:29:59 -0000

Since writing this tip, I've started to put some of the more common items I use on that toolbar. VisualSVN commands, SubSonic external tool item, etc. It's becoming even more handy all the time.

Re: VS2005 ‘prop’ C# Code Snippet in VS2008

John — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:41:00 -0000

Best I can tell from the C# Code Snippet docs, you cannot transform the backing field name into the property name (or vice versa). There's very basic support for functions, and none of them cover this case.