I heard of EverNote sporadically in the Twitter community and from my boss. I had checked it out and it seemed like another place to store notes/tips/ideas. I thought to myself 'What could I possibly use this for?" I've read some articles where a restaurant chef uses this to store all of his recipes. Another passion of mine (aside from being a dba) is baking. I have dozens (maybe hundreds) of recipes that I have strewn about. Some are in old hand written cards from my great-grandmother, others are earmarked in some of my favorite books, with still others are pulled from magazines,laminated, and put in boxes. I thought to myself "I don't have a computer in the kitchen, I prefer a piece of paper or recipe card." Then it hit me. I have a few c# scripts that I use in many of my SSIS packages. A script to calculate the SHA-1 fingerprint of incoming binary files, a script that converts ISBN10/13, and so on. What if I posted the scripts I want to share in a public EverNote notebook! That's exactly what I did! I created a c# public notebook where I will be putting various scripts I create. I might put other things up there like presentations, not sure. I did find out that Twitter and EverNote can be linked so now I can push tweets directly to my EverNote account. I haven't found a way to announce when I make entries in my notebook, so check back every so often and if you are looking for a script and don't see it, ask me and I post it if I have it, or if it's something I myself my need, I'll build it and post it. I have also put a link to my EverNote notebook in the Links section of my blog.
Book Review: Big Red - Voyage of a Trident Submarine
I've grown up reading Tom Clancy and probably most of you have at least seen Red October, so this book caught my eye when browsing used books for a recent trip. It's a fairly human look at what's involved in sailing on a Trident missile submarine...
2009-03-10
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