Monthly Archives: August 2004

Personal Time Clock app for consultants

Tools

I have been using my own little homegrown foxpro 2.6 app for many years to track my time working on client projects. I am now finding too many problems trying to run this 16bit app on my fast computer – and this has made me very inconsistent in keeping good track of my time.

I found a little shareware program that, so far, looks perfect for me. I don’t need anything complex. It’s called Personal Time Clock.  I just enter my clients and projects and then I can start up the clock for one project and when I’m done, enter a memo and then end the time. A little reporting tool prints out the detail report that is similar to what I have been giving my client along with their invoices for many years.

Looks like it’s going to be a great little tool and exactly what I need without a million bells and whistles that I don’t need to get in the way. It can also be used for multiple employees but I haven’t explored those features yet.

I’m sure I’ll be sending them my $25 by the end of the week after I’ve had a chance to use it a bit more.

Werner Vogels to become Director of Systems Research at Amazon.com

Community Cheerleading

Big congratulations to Werner, who has been researching distributed systems at Cornell University for many years. He just announced that he has accepted what sounds like a fascinating job at Amazon.

After 10 exciting years at Cornell I have decided that it is finally time to ‘eat my own dog food’; I will now be able to bring my ideas about building scalable and robust systems into practice in one of the most challenging environments in the industry. At the same time I will be able to work at Amazon on building strong research relations with academia and other research labs.

Vermont.NET gets a plumbing job : Threading & HTTP Handlers

dotNET

Vermont.NET’s next meeting is on Threading in .NET. Ali Aghareza, our local .net internals guru and a blogger is speaking at our Monday Aug 9th meeting. Meeting details at www.vtdotnet.org. Ali is a Sr. Systems Programmer at Green Mountain Power.

Then next month, we will be diving into HTTP Handler’s with a not-so-local plumber, Michele Leroux Bustamante who is coming to Vermont.NET thanks to INETA.