Outlook tool for attachments doh!

How many times have you sent an email to someone with an attachment - which you then forgot to actually include the attachment?

The Missing Attachment Powertoy fixes this:

"Have you ever forgotten to include an attachment to an important email? Missing Attachment Powertoy integrates with Microsoft Outlook 2007 and scans each message before it is sent, looking for words or phrases that would normally indicate an attachment. If it finds such references but the message does not have an attachment, it brings up a dialog to alert you and gives you the option to revise the message before sending. You can customize the list of trigger words based on your personal email habits and words that you would commonly use when sending a file attachment. Simple and useful."

Getting Things Done with Remember The Milk (GTD w RTM)

I've been reading "Getting Things Done" (GTD) by David Allen, a book on how to organize yourself effectively in an information rich world. It's a nice lifehack to improving time management and making work/life easier by getting everything (tasks, ideas, projects) out of your head onto paper/disk.

I've also been playing with Remember the Milk (RTM) as a way of implementing GTD, it's a very simple system, but being able to tag tasks and organise them online and your phone is very useful. It really shows how poor Outlook is at basic task management.

XML Explorer

Another tool to add to the collection: XML Explorer for playing with XML files. It's often the case when working with XML files that you get given a file that you need to understand (normally due to there being no DTD/Schema, or out of date schemas).

The most common case for me is that I want to visually inspect the file because the tags are not heavily constrained and the relationships are complex.

XML Explorer can handle medium sized files (300mb according to the site) and allows XPath querying - one nice feature being able to have the output from queries to multi-tabs. This makes the process of understanding a particular file much quicker.

Note this is not an editing tools, its just for viewing

A regular timesaver

Got data that needs parsing with regular expressions? this is the tool to explore your expressions, and nicely generating your code as well!
RegexDesigner.NET

What goes plinq plinq fizz?

Got data that needs to be processed with LINQ, maybe a database or XML file?
LINQPad

Snippet Compiler

We all do it, create mini code projects just to test an idea or see how something works, pretty soon you end up with lots of little projects scattered over your hard disk and then you cna't find the example you want..

Have a look at Snippet Complier a tool I've rediscovered again - it does what it says on the tin and is great for building up a library of how to snippets...

It supports C#, VB.Net and javascript... Jeff has some other cool tools some with source code