eWorld.UI - Matt Hawley

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Are you Bored?

April 6, 2004 22:48 by matthaw

If anyone would ask me that question right now, I would respond with "I'm insanely bored."  But here I am, sitting at work, doing nothing. Not because I choose to do so, but because there's just nothing to do. Normally I have some bit of a programming project I can work on, like WebDeploy or Resizer, but recently I've come across no more items to add into these.  Well, I'm sure Resizer could be beefed up a bit, I just don't feel like it right now.

So - here I am, writing a blog entry about what I do when I'm bored. Well, most of us would say "I program when I have free time"...sure, so do I...but like I already said, I don't have much to program right now. 

Then, there's the ever allusive surfing the internet.  Ohh, what I wouldn't give to see a "You've reached the end of the internet, please turn around" webpage.  Maybe I should create one?

Don't we forget another time waster at work, getting away from your desk and wander around the office aimlessly.  I never realized how relaxing an aimless walk was.

So - what do you do when you're bored out of you're mind?

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As a side note, since BlogJet currently doesn't have spell checking, I generally use Dictionary.com to check those iffy words.  So, when checking a few out on this post, I noticed that http://www.dictionary.com doesn't point directly to the "search & retrieve" page anymore.  Nooo, instead I have to go to http://dictionary.reference.com. You realize how much harder & longer that takes to type?
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April 6. 2004 22:53

I write blog entries that make people unhappy. Smile No, seriously, I surf the Net, wander aimlessly, and in one rare occurrence, open the sun roof and take a nap in the car. I was up late writing code, so that seemed like a fair trade that day.

Jeff

April 6. 2004 22:56

So true, I think you're last post proved that point.  Hmm, I don't think our parking lot is big enough for the nap thing, though it does sound very intriguing..oh wait, my cars in for service right now...man.

Matt Hawley

April 6. 2004 23:07

I post comments on other peoples blogs.

Scott

April 6. 2004 23:15

Simple search in google...



www.google.com/search%22end+of+the+internet%22">www.google.com/search%22end+of+the+internet%22

Jason

April 6. 2004 23:16

Walk around, drink enough coffee to make anything seem interesting (seriously, 3 cups of super strong espresso, I could find almost anything interesting - even what I'm being paid to do)

Scott Galloway

April 6. 2004 23:17

I guess I didn't reach the end of the internet then, phew thats a good thing.

Matt Hawley

April 6. 2004 23:23

Here's a programming item for you to tackle.  Add a feature in WebDeploy to import a Visual Studio project file and deploy the non-compile files (BuildAction=None,Content,etc.).  



I posted a comment a while back regarding this but maybe you missed it or chose not to implement it.

Dave Bost

April 6. 2004 23:25

Beat ya to it Smile  You should download 0.8.0.1 which has this functionality Smile

Matt Hawley

April 6. 2004 23:26

Here's my comment without HTML

If you're using a recent verion of Mozilla or Firefox, you can type "dict foo" in the address bar and it will look up the word at dictionary.com.  If you use IE on Windows, you can download the www.microsoft.com/.../ie5wa.asp">www.microsoft.com/.../ie5wa.asp

Web Accessories, which includes the Quick Search utility  to configure IE to do the same. (It works fine for IE6 even though it says IE5 only.)



Here's a registry entry that adds this to IE. This is all that the Quick Search utility does.  The capability is already built in to IE4+ (on Windows, at least).:



REGEDIT4



[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\dict]

@="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s"">http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s"

http://

April 6. 2004 23:28

Hmm, very cool...I'll have to give that a shot.

Matt Hawley

April 6. 2004 23:34

You probably have the job that I just left.

John

April 6. 2004 23:36

Or rather...what didn't you do.  LOL

Matt Hawley

April 6. 2004 23:36

I doubt that, but what did you do?

Matt Hawley

April 7. 2004 04:36

Hi Matt,

I'm sorry/happy/unhappy to hear that you're bored because you don't have much program to do... Oppositely, I'm bored because I have TOO MANY things to do.. (My team have 1 programmer - Me - right now only, so I'm terribly busy)



BTW, I guess surfing the Net and chatting with other bored buddies might help .. you and me.. Smile

Colt

April 7. 2004 14:16

Hi Matt,



Great little utility - WebDeploy!



Though support for VS.NET projects is great, I think it would be very useful to be able to save and load your own 'WebDeploy' projects. This is particularly useful for deployment from say a staging to a live environment.



What do you think?



Cheers - and keep up the good work!



Wim

Wim

April 7. 2004 14:53

Do the profiles not work for you?

Matt Hawley

April 7. 2004 19:34

Sorry Matt,



Just recently downloaded WebDeploy and only created a default profile. Thought the profile was just linked to the extensions and not to source and destination paths DOH...*blush*



Cheers!

Wim

Wim

April 8. 2004 10:36

Well, if you don't have enough to do, I've got *ton* of projects waiting for a good .NET programmer to work on for free... Smile

Mike Schinkel

July 26. 2004 18:27

hello, im adam.  im bored also.

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