I saw this post on David Harris’s blog and thought I’d mention a bit more about mind mapping.
What’s a mind map? Wikipedia says:
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, [...]
Tag Archives: tools
Developer Toolbox - Mind Mapping w/Freemind
March 4, 2008 – 12:49 pm
Developer Toolbox - Better Bookmarks w/OpenBook
February 29, 2008 – 1:22 pm
If you are like me you have a lot of bookmarks. Actually for most things I now dump them in del.icio.us but I keep a lot of project related bookmarks locally. OpenBook is a neat Firefox extension that gives you some additional properties when adding bookmarks.
This extension allows for customization of the [...]
Microsoft Giving Away Tools (To Students)
February 19, 2008 – 2:48 pm
Saw this post on Slashdot about Microsoft making full versions of some of their developer tools available to students for free.
The following software is included:
Visual Studio Professional Edition, a software development environment
Expression Studio, graphic design and Web site
XNA Game Studio 2.0, a video game development program.
Windows Server Standard Edition
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
In the press [...]
Developer Toolbox - SmarterChild (AIM Bot)
February 18, 2008 – 5:45 pm
SmarterChild is an AIM bot. This is a simple tool but one I find myself using more and more.
SmarterChild is an interactive agent built by Colloquis, Inc. Interactive agents are software applications, often called “bots,” that interact with users on Instant Messaging or other text messaging services. You can “chat” with an interactive agent, whether [...]
Developer Toolbox - Scribe: Save Form Data
January 28, 2008 – 8:08 am
Today’s tool is another Firefox extension - Scribe. Scribe simply allows you to save your form information. Fill out the form, select File > Save Entry and it will prompt you for a location and file name. Save the file. Now when you re-open the form you can click File [...]
Wink - Tutorial and Presentation Software (now for Linux)
January 24, 2008 – 9:11 am
One tool I use occasionally to whip up quick demos and tutorials is Wink. I’ve done several quick tutorials here with Wink showing how to do basic Subversion tasks and have gotten good feedback from everyone who has watched them.
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials [...]
Developer Toolbox - AutoFill Forms
January 17, 2008 – 9:04 am
How many times a day do you fill out our old friend the blog comment form? If you are like me - a lot. Do you type all that stuff in each time? If you do you should grab the AutoFill Forms extension.
Autofill Forms enables you to fill out [...]
Developer Toolbox - Backup
January 15, 2008 – 8:04 am
Do you backup? Me neither! But we should! Your code and documents are extremely valuable and a little paranoia will go a long way in keeping your data safe. There are lots of solution for backups depending on how much data you have and how secure you want to get. [...]