Oliver Flint's Blog
me and my opinion
My Photos
Aug 25th
I’ve started to upload my pics here rather than flickr and facebook. Check out the My Photos link at the top of the page
I started by adding a selection of sample photos taken with my Nikon D80 & Sigma DG 70-300mm 1:4-5.6 Lens. Have a look at the shots here
And I have also added an album of photos from a recent camping trip in Wales.
Enjoy Ollie
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
Jul 8th
Over the past weeks I have been working and developing with MS Dynamics CRM.
So for both my benifit and the benifit of other I though I would list some of the tools/utilities and downloads I have found during these past 2 weeks…
- Developer Toolkit – http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/E2DevTkt
- SDK – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=82e632a7-faf9-41e0-8ec1-a2662aae9dfb&displaylang=en
- Accelerators – http://crmaccelerators.codeplex.com/
- Demo tools – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=634508DC-1762-40D6-B745-B3BDE05D7012&displaylang=en
- Plugin Registration Tool – http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/crmplugin
- CrmDiagTool4 – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/benlec/archive/2009/11/16/crmdiagtool4-update-v4-0-7333-10.aspx
- Customisation Comparison Util – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd442453.aspx
- Stunnware Tools – http://www.stunnware.com/default.aspx?area=products&group=swtools4&subarea=swtools4-download
- Form Javascript Manager – http://mscrmtools.blogspot.com/2009/03/after-few-days-weeks-of-silence-i-am.html
- Bulk Import/Export – http://mscrmbulkupdatetool.codeplex.com/
That’s all for now. I will add new tools as I discover them.
z4p.me updates
Jul 8th
Over the past month I have updated z4p.me with a new look. Adding a list of the latest z4p’s (shortened url’s) and a basic graph of the last 7 days stats – z4p’s created and z4p’s hit’s/visit’s.
I have also created browser extensions for both Google Chome and Mozilla Firefox…
Chrome Extension (get it here)
Mozilla Firefox Addon (get it here)
Treated myself to a HTC Desire…
Apr 28th
I have treated myself to a HTC Desire after having a Nokia E71 for over a year and am very impressed so far. Why did I go Android and not iPhone I hear you ask… Well I have always been anti apple due to their restriction on comparability with other hardware and software plus I dislike iTunes (but that is another story).
More to follow….
Developer Tools….
Mar 26th
It occurred to me the other day that I use quite a lot of different tools at work. Some of the tools I only use on rare occasions but I have never made a list of them and often forget about them.
So I though I would put a list up here that I will keep up to date and others my find useful.
Main Tools- Visual Studio – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/default.aspx (Visual Studio Express for those on a tight budget – http://www.microsoft.com/exPress/)
- Expression Studio - http://www.microsoft.com/expression/
- MS SQL – http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx (Express Edition – http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/)
- NetBeans – http://netbeans.org/
- Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
- Toad - http://www.toadsoft.com/
- SQLDBTOOLS - http://www.sqldbtools.com/
- Paint.NET – http://www.getpaint.net/
- GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/
- SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx
- DiffMerge - http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/
- SoapUI - http://www.soapui.org/
- VMWare Player - http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
- FileZilla - More >
Open-Source groupware/collaboration solutions
Mar 8th
I just thought I would share this with everyone…
While setting up a new project the other day I decided I needed a groupware/collaboration solution to help manage it and the people working with me. So I did some searching and was happy to see a healthy number of open source solutions. After a quick trial of Feng Office (http://z4p.me/zkaP) and Collabitive (http://z4p.me/r6nL) we found Feng Office to be the best solution for us. Collabitive had a very nice looking interface but had bugs in some of it’s basic operations which meant it was a definite no-go!
After using Feng Office for the last few days I have to More >
VOIP, Sipgate and Trixbox
Mar 1st
The other day I decided I needed a dedicated phone number for one of my projects so I started to look for good value VOIP providers… Eventually I came across sipgate.co.uk who are offering free UK phone numbers (inc 0845 numbers). With this deal all inbound calls are free and outbound calls are charged at their reasonable tariff. Given I will not be making many (if any at all) outbound calls this seems the perfect solution for me. Registration and setup took minutes and I was able to receive calls. Great!
Now I started thinking how cool it would be if I More >
nice looking code editor…
Feb 26th
“Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins. It makes development in any programming or scripting language quick and easy.”
Still in it’s very early stages but looks sexy! Once I have used it a little I’ll post an update. Check it out here http://intype.info
UPDATE: PS3 or XBOX 360???
Feb 25th
An update to my original PS3 or XBOX 360 post…
Right, I’ve gone and convinced myself not to get a console now! Instead I am going to put a nice desk in the dining room and set my PC up in there. And I may invest in one of these new ATI graphics gards with Eyefinity and have triple monitor setup for racing sims
z4p.me update
Feb 24th
I’ve just updated z4p.me to include a toolbar along the top on shortened urls.
The toolbar has a link to the stats for that shortened url and a button to close the toolbar.
