New IE DevBar

UPDATE: Beta 3 is out!

I read over on the IEBlog that a new version of the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is available. I like to call it the IE DevBar, and you can get it here.

Update - I've now had a chance to actually play with the thing, and it is good! It's a significant improvement on the earlier version; everything feels quicker, slicker, and more stable.

Useful app of the day

Puretext is a really useful slice of freeware. It basically allows you to use windows + v to paste text minus any formatting. This eliminates the practice of pasting things into Notepad and then cutting and pasting them back into your app, or wrestling with Outlook because you've pasted in some text that was written in a different font. Recently, I reinstalled my machine and forgot to copy it across. It's a sure sign of a really useful app when your machine just doesn't feel quite right without it.

While I'm here, more apps that give my PC that warm and fuzzy feeling:

VLC
Free Download Manager
FeedDemon
Firefox
Konfabulator (although, in all honesty, Konfabulator isn't running on my development machine right now…)

IE Dev toolbar update

Update: Beta 3 is out!

Microsoft have updated the developer toolbar for IE.

Technical Articles: #1 in an occasional series

Whilst this blog isn't intended to be technical (in the sense that it won't contain purely technical content) from time to time I'll probably write technical articles in order to share certain areas of my knowledge. This will be linked to as individual pages, rather than posted as entries on the front page. However, I suppose I ought to draw attention to their existence by gesturing frantically to them from the front page.

The first of these is an article I wrote about SharePoint Web Part versioning, and can be found here. There's a companion piece to it on Simon Tocker's blog (BinaryJam) which goes into a little more detail in terms of actual code to implement one of the things I mention.