Category Archives: Tooling

Pocket Beta

Posted on November 30, 2015 by erictummers

Today I found an invite in my mailbox for the Pocket Beta. We’ve been working on making it wayeasier to recommend the most interesting things you’re reading and watching in Pocket to others. We think you’ll love what’s new – open … Continue reading →

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Static webpages with Jekyll

Posted on November 23, 2015 by erictummers

Next to this wordpress blog I have a blog about my running. I used to host this with postach.io from evernote, but that started to cost money. I moved to scriptogr.am that uses dropbox, but they quit the service. Now … Continue reading →

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Automate downloads folder structuring

Posted on November 18, 2015 by erictummers

My downloads folder is finally structured. For this I used the Folder Action in Automator. This is a workflow that triggers when a new file is added to a certain folder. The automator in Mac OS X provides a drag-and-drop … Continue reading →

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Branching

Posted on November 16, 2015 by erictummers

My new project uses branching in TFS. Every project to improve the product is done on a branch. This is correct use of TFS, since it is a Application Lifecycle Management tool. In this post I’ll describe how I merged … Continue reading →

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Choose Your Own

Posted on November 2, 2015 by erictummers

My boss lets me choose my own device to work with. Given a budget, some basic rules, two default configurations and this employee is happy. But now the hard part: what do I choose? Visual Studio and Office are where … Continue reading →

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