13 Website Developers and Designers Project Checklists
January 16th, 2009
In an effort to make the website creation process as efficient as possible I searched for some cookie cutter project checklists to add my current checklist and found some great resources.
Online
A Website Design & Development Project Checklist
Website Checklist
Web Design Contract Essentials Checklist
Software Development Project Checklist (Free Registration Required to Download)
Project Checklists
Checklist: Web Contracts
The Official “Successful [...]
When Will Radmin Have Drag and Drop from Explorer?
January 13th, 2009
I use Radmin for handling remote management that requires more than just viewing the remote machine. Radmin can also handle file transfers, copy to and from the remote clipboard, view only as well as full control mode and much more.
My biggest gripe is not being able to drag and drop from Explorer directly to the [...]
Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools) 2.0 Released
January 7th, 2009
PDT is an open source development tool that provides basic PHP code editing capabilities. It is also the foundation for the professional-grade Zend Studio for Eclipse.
The new 2.0 release is fully compliant with Eclipse standards, enabling PHP developers to leverage a wide variety of Eclipse projects, such as Web Tools Project (WTP) and Dynamic Language [...]
Backup Windows Mail on Vista with xcopy
December 25th, 2008
I know you can backup your email directly from within Windows Mail but this script saves me a few clicks and I can run it in a scheduled task so I can set it and forget it.
Download
For impatient you can download the batch file here.
Find Windows Mail Store Location
Open Windows Mail and open Tools/Options.
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Quickly Jump In Code with Zend Studio and Bookmarks
December 17th, 2008
This is a cool feature in Zend Studio for Eclipse (might be available for the base Eclipse Project as well) that allows you to bookmark your code to quickly jump from section to section for those large files.
Open a file to work with and right click the line you want to place a bookmark on.
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Free Outlook PST Backup Tool
December 4th, 2008
Microsoft has a great Outlook PST backup tool. It’s main function is to backup your Outlook.pst file, which is your entire Outlook profile; Calendar, Emails, Contacts, Journals, everything.
Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B081F3A-B7D0-4B16-B8AF-5A6322F4FD01&displaylang=en
Usage
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010875321033.aspx
How to Download an Entire Web Page Screenshot
December 2nd, 2008
Firefox has a great plugin called Screengrab. It gives you several options if you want to copy the entire page, a small portion or what viewable.
Usage
Download
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146
Download, install and restart Firefox.
How to Import Pictures from your iPhone on Vista
November 30th, 2008
If you are Windows user and need to import your pictures from your iPhone here is how you do it.
Plugin your iPhone to your computer with the supplied USB cable.
Dreamweaver and Disappearing ASP.NET Directives
November 28th, 2008
If you are working with Dreamweaver templates and your ASP.NET directives keep disappearing try the following.
Place <%–’comment–%> on the second line after your page declaration on your content pages. You can leave your template as is.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="default.aspx.cs" Inherits="default" %>
<%--'comment--%>
You do not need to set the <!– TemplateInfo codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked=”false” –> to true.
This is [...]
Move your Outlook Mail to Windows Mail
November 28th, 2008
If you want to use Windows Mail instead of Outlook you can import the messages directly into Windows Mail without any 3rd party utilities. I haven’t tried this without outlook installed but I don’t think it will work since the import process asks for your MAPI profile.
Fire up Windows Mail
File/Import/Messages
Select Microsoft Outlook
Select the Outlook profile [...]









