DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with Productivity

Documents 2.0 - Consumable Documents

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Sidar discussing the need for more agile documents in business environments.

Save Your Fingers, Use a BDD AutoHotKey Script!

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:00:13 GMT

Using a bdd_style_naming_convention_for_you_specifications? Save yourself some time and keystrokes by using BDD AutoHotKey Script.

Visual Studio Usability Tip: Highlight Current Line

Sat, 17 May 2008 23:01:02 GMT

A small tweak you can make to your Visual Studio color scheme to help you navigate your code faster... maybe.

Visual Studio Tip: Kill That Build!

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:41:38 GMT

Have you ever accidentally started to compile your code and you didn't mean to... so you're stuck waiting for Visual Studio to finish so you can get back to work? Why not just cancel the build with a keystroke?

Using a RAM drive to compile faster Visual Studio .NET projects

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:25:52 GMT

If you have a modern CPU (like a Core Duo), you may experience significant improvements since a RAM disk reads your code files at about 900 MB/sec!!

Does 10 Times More Developer Productivity Warrant Ten Times More Pay?

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:31:01 GMT

Becoming a better developer... learn more to earn more.

Some Small Ways to Reduce Daily Development Friction

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:31:01 GMT

The start of a new series of posts to highlight some tips, tricks, and shortcuts to reduce the friction of day-to-day development tasks in Visual Studio and Windows.

Visual SVN: Another Zero Friction Tool In The Toolbox

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:31:01 GMT

If Mr. "Zero Friction" himself (Ayende) is recommending a tool it must be good. And boy is it! Visual SVN extends Visual Studio with the same interface as TortoiseSVN - making it nearly transparent for anyone already using TortoiseSVN.

WinMerge - visual text file differencing and merging tool.

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:46:01 GMT

Tool for visual comparison text documents in Windows to change them

World Clock for your Vista Sidebar

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:44:10 GMT

My team is spread across the US - in 3 different time zones - so keeping everyone on the same page... and ON TIME is even more challenging than usual. But I've found a great Vista Sidebar Gadget that helps me keep the time mix-ups to a minimum - the Digital World Clock.

Using Virtual PC with Multiple Monitors, Sort Of

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:01:01 GMT

Use the new Remote Desktop Connection client to get multi-monitor support for Virtual PC... sort of. :)

Cool WPF Note taker application

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:46:01 GMT

This is a cool WPF created application for note taking. No more sticky notes

Increase productivity with ReSharper templates

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:01:01 GMT

Download useful ReSharper templates and learn how to use them

13 Productivity Tips for ADO.NET 2.0

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:01:00 GMT

13 Productivity Tips for ADO.NET 2.0