In case you missed it:

"eScrum is a Web-based, end-to-end project management tool for Scrum built on the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server platform. It provides multiple ways to interact with your Scrum project: eScrum Web-based UI, Team Explorer, and Excel or Project, via Team Foundation Office Integration. In addition, it provides a single place for all Scrum artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, task management, retrospective, and reports with built-in context sensitive help."

Source: Download

Windows Live Writer is for sure the current highlight in blogging tools. The Windows Live Writer Gallery brings a whole bunch of extensions to Windows Live Writer which make it even better. Especially the digital ink and Visual Studio plug-ins look promising... pending for further investigation.

Source: http://gallery.live.com/default.aspx?pl=8

Already scrobbled today?

"Scrobbling a song means that when you listen to it, the name of the song is sent to Last.fm and added to your music profile."

I just downloaded iScrobble and added a LastFM widget to this page. Unfortunately, the widget does not fit 100%. So, I have to modify the page layout a bit soon.   

The tool does permanently upload your played songs (including syncing the iPod playlist). Welcome to the new world. Big brother - and the media industry is watching what you are listening.  However, LastFM provides some great possibilities so search for similar music and artists.

Source: http://www.last.fm/

Don't Drink and Code!

BtK

I just decided to sit down on Monday mornings and summarize a couple of things. Hence this morning I had a look at the blog-o-sphere.

Iman, a friend from UK just stated his own blog. I am looking forward to read what he has to say. Damir once again became MVP. I am wondering why I never become a MVP... Otherwise, the blog-o-sphere was quite silent this week. I guess Clemens is busy with his daughter right now and BtK is not blogging for ages... Martin Calsyn, our architect also has a rarely used blog. Since I have still some issues with the encoding in categories within the DasBlog engine, Alexander started to help me in finding out why... Guess what? He has a blog, too.

Currently, I had to solve some optimization problems remembering me to my early studies in computer science. To refresh my memories I was looking for some resources about the knapsack problem. Here I found a book as free download (22.5 MB) dealing with the knapsack problem, written by Silvano Martello and Paolo Toth.

Source: http://www.or.deis.unibo.it/knapsack.html

Finally,I set up my Technorati Profile. And this is just the blog claim posting...

Synchronizing my laptop folders with three servers on different locations makes it difficult to keep track of what is already copied. SyncToy 1.4 should help me in getting this managed since I haven't used it on my new machine yet and my XP machine still running version 1.2.

Source: Download

DasBlog does finally support Gravatars [1]. One step more away from the anonym beginnings of the web. Check the comments of this blog entry to view how they work. Definitely another Web 2.0 application. Gravatars can be easy added to any weblog:

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?

[1] http://site.gravatar.com/

Just 24h after I have upgraded my site to the DasBlog engine 1.9.7174.0 daily build, build 1.9.174.1 was release as stable. The work is going on and Clemens [1] gives a first impression on what is happening in the future:

Once the project switches over to be "native" on the CLR/BCL 2.0 (we're discussing the actual target framework version), I'll rejoin the effort and I already have several truckloads of new features or changes in the wait loop. You'll be surprised what that little engine will learn to do over the next several months.... ;)

[1] http://vasters.com/clemensv/PermaLink,guid,62191618-0f0f-4017-bfe4-f6577c8db0f6.aspx