Category Archives: Tooling

Development tooling

Icon editor

Posted on April 16, 2011 by erictummers

For a nice GUI I need nice icons. The IconWorkshop software from Axialis Software is the tool for me. Giving me more options than I need without making my head spin. A nice feature is constructing an icon from multiple … Continue reading →

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Resize image in Word with macro

Posted on March 29, 2011 by erictummers

Whenever I need to walk through a wizard I make screenshots of the steps. This comes in handy when someone else needs to do the same thing or just for logging purpose. The screenshots come in a Word document. To … Continue reading →

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Log with notepad

Posted on February 23, 2011 by erictummers

I’m using a hack found here to log with notepad. Whenever the link is opened a window of notepad is openen, with a timestamp inserted at the end of the file and the cursor positioned after the timestamp. Now I … Continue reading →

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WordPress iPhone app

Posted on December 11, 2010 by erictummers

The wordpress app has a place in the Rewind 2010: iPhone apps list. I’m using it to publish this item. Works great. Go install it.

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Many-to-any link back to parent

Posted on November 8, 2010 by erictummers

ActivRecord has a feature to create relations between tables with the name of the table as a variable. The example deals with payment and order. A payment can be iDeal or PayPal. The dotNET code uses a interface (IPayment) which … Continue reading →

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