- Sister's 17th birthday
- Family reunion
- A family member left the US
- Work machine hard drive crashed
- Won a silver medal in the Paralympics.
Just kidding about that last one. But I could totally p0wn there.
Seriously, having your work machine hard drive die on you is pretty shaking for a software developer. Here's the list of software I've had to install and configure on my new machine over the last few days:
- WinRar - zip utility
- Visual Studio 2005 + service pack - software development environment
- Consolas - font pack
- TestDriven.NET - software test runner
- GhostDoc - XML documentation plugin
- Krypton Toolkit - UI library software
- Red Gate ANTS profiler - software performance and memory profiler
- Lutz Reflector - software analyzer
- RssBandit - gotta have my RSS feeds to keep up on the blogs
- Windows XP service pack 3 + updates - gotta have the latest security patches
- Twhirl - Tweet from your desktop. Nifty.
- Silverlight - video/audio plugin for web browsers
- .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 - software runtime
- Adobe Air - software runtime
- LiveMesh - keep my work and home machines synced up
- Firefox 3 - best web browser around
- Cruise Control .NET tray - distributed software build watcher
- SlickRun - never have to use your start menu again
- AVG antivirus
- IE tab - plugin for Firefox
- Flashblock - plugin for Firefox, never see another annoying Flash ad
- TextPad - good text editor
- Notepad2 - another good text editor
- MbUnit - software test runner
- GTalk - Google's instant messenger
- Greasemonkey - add-on extension for Firefox
- CPhog - browse CodeProject.com with ease
Yeah. Busy.
Things are settling now, so a return to our regular scheduled postings is in coming down the pipes. Thanks for hangin' tight, fine blog readers.
