Tools

Feature request for SQL Server Management Studio

A “You sure you want to do this?” confirmation when you attempt to run a query that contains a destructive update (delete/update) without a where clause. With the hoards of database tables getting wiped in the world, why hasn’t this been implemented yet? This feature would remove a lot of fear of pressing F5.

Avoid the home page in Internet Explorer

More for my own records than anything else… I’m a big fan of the about:blank home page, but sometimes corporate policies dictate (and enforce) the company intranet site as IE’s home page. To start IE without going to the set home page, add the nohome command line parameter as such : Bash 1 "C:\Program Files\Internet …

Visual SVN - Subversion at its best

About a year ago, the VisualSVN guys gave the NGenerics team a complimentary license for their product. After a year with it, I would not using Subversion as a VCS without it! Get it here, and have a look at their VisualSVN Server product while you’re there - also a great product.

LiveWriter Plugins

Installed a bunch of them - ahh, it’s good to have them back. 13 September 2008 - Update : We’ve found the little girl in the picture’s first tooth! Photo by Neven Krcmarek on Unsplash

Vimperator

The best Firefox add-on ever. Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash

Now this is jewel in my Biztalk Toolbox

If your BizTalk orchestration is published as a web service and something goes awry in your orchestration a specific exception might not be thrown to your web service, but rather it will throw ApplicationTimeOutException. I was prepared to live with it, until I found the following jewel here.