Three weeks ago, I bought a Jawbone UP. It’s a movement-tracking bracelet that can be plugged into your iPhone (or Android device) once or twice a day to transmit your activity to a mobile app. (You can also download your tracking data as a CSV spreadsheet by logging into the UP website and ‘crunch’ it [...]
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How to estimate a project (using Microsoft Project)
Almost anyone who works in an industry that sells services will sooner or later be asked to create an estimate. Most people have limited skills in this area: they’re trained to perform some kind of specialist work like software development or report writing, while estimating is typically left to specialists. Where there are no specialists [...]
Managing iTunes metadata for classical music
Warning: This post is extremely nerdy and detailed. If you don’t really care about classical music, iTunes—or metadata, for that matter—you may lose interest rather quickly. Feel free to look around and see if something less navel-gazing catches your eye. Getting your metadata right in iTunes can be challenging at the best of times. Most [...]
Why I’m not upgrading
“My name is Carsten, and I don’t like upgrading.”—”Hi Carsten!” I’ve become that guy. I never used to be that guy. You know, the guy who’s content with the technology he has because it’s working fine for him. The guy who’s perfectly capable of scaling any technical mountain but prefers to stick with what he [...]
Requirements analysis kit for SharePoint 2010 collaboration site templates
In the course of my day job, I often find myself confronted with having to document things on paper that are easier to implement than document. One of these things is a SharePoint 2010 collaboration site template. As you know if you’re reading this, SharePoint has the ability to ‘wrap up’ the configuration settings, visual [...]
How to get pay-as-you-go data in the US (without a US credit card)
Every Canadian with an iPad knows this problem: regardless of which Canadian wireless provider you’re using locally, the cost of US data roaming is absurd. The best offer I’ve been able to find was something like $0.40 per megabyte for the first 100MB. After that, it goes up to $1.00 per megabyte. Lovely. I blow [...]
SharePoint metadata design principles
Metadata is a messy subject. So messy, in fact, that many SharePoint projects never truly deal with it. Metadata is complicated, full of dependencies we cannot control and—to put it mildly—not exactly liked by end users. Once you move beyond the initial “oh wow” moment of demonstrating how metadata can help arrange documents in multiple [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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