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Who is Scott?

1. Family man. I am married to a wonderful woman who has blessed me with a great daughter.
2. Employee. I am the Vice President of Product Development for Telligent. In a nutshell, I get to help our customers connect to thier own customers and employees in a much more meaningful way.
3. Sports enthusiast.
4. Blogger.
5. Social Contributor. Find me on Twitter and Posterous.

As for the rest of the bio: I currently live in NJ and I am a graduate of Rutgers University. I have held a variety of positions over the years, but software is definitely what I was born to do. I have also been lucky enough to be affiliated with some awesome developer groups: Microsoft's MVP program, the Regional Directors, and ASPInsiders.


If you have question or two or just need some more information, please feel free to contact me at scottw@telligent.com or scottwater@gmail.com.

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Time Management - Going Simple Again

I have tried quite a few pieces of software for time/task management, but none have really fit me enough to be used without quite a bit of effort.

For the last week or so, I have gone back to pen and paper via a Moleskin and things have been much better. I even went as far as writing myself a quick to do list for my flight to Dallas (which I am procrastinating on by writing this :).

Like many developers before me, I have some ideas on how to fix this problem…just a matter of finding time.

If you have a favorite application (especially if runs on OS X + iPhone) please leave me a comment.

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Three Install Indicators?

Not sure why this install screen needed a third status indicator.

In addition, a spinning pipe isn’t necessarily what I would call an intuitive UI element.

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Updated Windows 7 NVidia Drivers

NVidia released a set of updated Windows 7 drivers the other day at http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Scan.aspx?lang=en-us

On my unibody MBP running Windows 7 x64 there was a significant change to my Windows Experience score. However, since I don’t do gaming or other graphic intensive work I have not really noticed anything difference.

One of the more interesting parts of the update was Windows did not require a reboot.

   
Click here to download:
Updated_Windows_7_NVidia_Drive.zip (27 KB)

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C# Library for CouchDB - Divan

Divan is a C# library under the MIT license for using CouchDB (www.couchdb.org). It should be more or less API complete including bulk operations, attachments, views and design documents etc. It is quite fast and designed to be flexible but not bloated.

Divan has been developed in-house at Foretagsplatsen AB (www.foretagsplatsen.se) and is being used in the new core system at Foretagsplatsen. It has unit tests (although could benefit from more) and at least one sample console project included.

via github.com

I expect to be hacking on this during this week's lobby hacking sessions in Dallas.

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Code Economist

The six billion people of the world can be divided into two groups:

  1. People who know why every good software company ships products with known bugs.
  2. People who don't.
via ericsink.com

This is a great quote by Eric Sink I refer to almost every week.

Ideally, with http://crinket.com/every-day we get closer to living in #2. :)

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Wildcard Subdomains on App Engine

new feature is that we've enabled 'wildcard' domains for App Engine apps serving off appspot.com. What this means is that you can now create multiple subdomains for your App Engine app, and have them all served by the same application.
via googleappengine.blogspot.com

Sounds like this is currently only supported using the appspot domain. Hopefully that changes in the future.

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Every Day

This is a picture we took on a tour of he Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg Tennessee.

While software development and making Jack Daniels are very different, the end goal is the same. Make it better today than yesterday and make it better tomorrow than today.

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What's "64-bit" on Snow Leopard?

When Apple talks about Snow Leopard being thoroughly 64-bit savvy, what the company means is that almost every application included in Snow Leopard has been recompiled to run in 64-bit mode. There are two reasons this is a good thing. The first is simple: 64-bit computing is necessary if you want one of the programs on your computer to have access to more than 4GB of RAM. Second, there are some speed boosts associated with running in 64-bit mode.
via macworld.com

Via Rob Bazinet on twitter http://twitter.com/rbazinet/status/3608122619

Now if I could find 8 gigs of RAM for my 13 inch MBP for less than $800 I would be set. Thankfully the cost of SSD's seems to be coming down so I may be able tot swap one of them in shortly.

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Mockups To Go

A user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups. 
via mockupstogo.net

If you are a fan of Balsamiq (my take http://simpable.com/software/balsamiq/) you should be subscribed to their "Mockups To Go" blog which references many used generated UI components.

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