After working with Kentico for some time, I’ve slowly developed a few little tools to help migrate information from our old site to the new Kentico framework. 
One of the things that’s a little time consuming in Kentico is creating documents.  I’ve decided to use a custom document type for a particular type of content on our new site.  The data for this new document type is in a bunch of different tables in the old website and I needed a way to get all that information into the Kentico …

Google Docs have recently started working with offline functions through the use of Google Gears.  Gears is their engine that allows for you to perform some functions while not connected to the Internet and then synchronises when you get a connection again.
I’ve been waiting for this for Gmail for a while.  I love the interface for Gmail, but get a little frustrated when I don’t have a connection, an offline version would be great.

Just a short post, I’ve been using Stock Exchange for ages to get images for presentations and the like.  They have a great collection, free (with some conditions) and a nice search engine.
I tend to use this to find symbolic images for PowerPoint presentations I’m preparing.  I must admit as a general trend I find myself moving away from bullet slides to great imagery.

Have just been playing with a tool called TimeBridge, it’s a meeting planner type application that integrates into Outlook and allows you to setup of a meeting. Sounds simple, but as soon as you add people from multiple companies in multiple time zones it get complex and a down-right waste of time.
Timebridge solves the typical back and forth issue by allowing you to suggest up to 5 time slots from your own outlook calendar and then sending invitations off to the attendees. The attendees then choose the best …

If you haven’t heard about mahalo.com, go have a look.  I personally don’t think much of it but I’m sure it has an audience.  Primarily it’s marketed as a human powered search engine.  So where Google relies on computations to rank web page search results mahalo gets people to make the same decisions.  i can see value in that as long as they have lots of humans (and I think they do).
What interested me tonight though was a search for ‘open office’ at Google, screen shot below.

What surprised me was …

I plan on writing a few posts over the next couple of weeks around Google docs, Google’s online document system, but to get started wanted to talk briefly about what the application is attempting to do.
If you think about the average document what normally springs to mind is something like a letter or a proposal and typically you would use a word processor to write it up.  Something like Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer are the normal tools you think of too.  If you think a little harder though about the …

OK, so I find something cool, in this case Atlas, the AJAX framework for .NET 2.0 and I jump right in and start wasting precious time.
Time to slow things down. I need to figure out exaclty what I want this system to do, how it should work. So in an effort to do so I need to figure out the objectives:

The resulting site must be search engine friendly
The pages must be editable in a wysiwyg style
.NET (goes without saying I guess)
AJAX where possible and appropriate (Just because I …

I was a little frustrated this morning at a hotel I was staying at in Sydney overnight. For the first time ever the alarm clock in the room was not turned off when house-keeping reset the room. So at 6.30 this morning I was woken by a badly tuned radio noise. Now I know 6.30 is not so bad and yes it could have been worse, but I had a wake up call for 7.30 and only got to bed just before midnight anyway, and I’m one of those people …

Funny things heard on the Liberty of the Seas Cruise Ship:
Passenger to a staff member: “Do these stairs go up or down”
Passenger to a shop attendant: “Tell me, if I buy a watch on this boat am I going to get ripped off?”
Female passenger to her husband: “I TOLD you not to leave the store!”