July 2004 Entries
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be invited to the home of Bill Gates? Read this entry to get a really interesting perspective by one Microsoft intern who recently had the opportunity.
I downloaded/installed SP1 for Office 2003 yesterday and found a pretty cool enhancement affecting OneNote. I rely heavily on my iPaq 5450 Pocket PC to keep my life organized and was pleasantly surprised to see that I can “easily” synchronize my Pocket PC Notes and Recordings (voice notes) with OneNote - this ability was not there previous to SP1 and was the biggest concern I had in my continued use of OneNote. I only recently began to utilize the rich features of OneNote to organize...
I have been a user of Groove (now Groove Virtual Office v3.0) for a little more than a year now at the recommendation of Derek Hatchard and have grown to rely on this most useful tool. Earlier today, Groove 3.0 was released so I had to download and install right away...it has been in beta for a while now but wanted to wait for official release before taking the time to familiarize myself with the new features. The upgrade was painless and all of my previous workspace settings were brought forward...
I was recently approached to build a small application (data management app) for a long time customer of my firm. Since we began discussing this new project, I have been spending every spare minute learning as much as I can of the new technologies that is (or soon will be available) at my finger tips with Visual Studio 2005, and how some of these new technologies could be implemented into this new project. But I find myself being forced to consider a tool that I have relied on for such similar projects...