Digiwar - the Yeep-blog

I’ve recently been needing for find out how to add and modify e-mail accounts in Outlook and Outlook Express. My first idea was to search Google on how to do it, but I couldn’t find anything about it (later I found out some hints have been dropped in newsgroups, so I should’ve used Google Groups). So I had to do it the hard way and figure it out myself. Now I want to show people how to do it, to save them the time it has cost me to find out. So expect a series of articles in the near future on how to add and edit e-mail accounts in Outlook and Outlook Express. Since I’m still in the middle of making the program that does this (the program won’t be released here because it’s a product for the company I work for), it can be a while since I still need to verify and test my assumptions. But the articles will be here in a few weeks.
I’ll probably start with Outlook Express and then work my way up from Outlook 97, to Outlook 98, to Outlook 2000, to Outlook XP and finally to Outlook 2003.

[Last played: Billy Idol - Romeo\’s Waiting]

We have a bigger development team now at work. Because of one of the many, many reorganizations at my employer, I now find myself being part of a group of developers, most of them specializing in Windows platform development. I like this better than before the last reorganization, because then I was one of two Windows developers amongs a host of *nix fanatics. All of who think Java and C are the way to go.
Anyways, with this team we’re trying to get some standard tools that everyone can and will work with. The only standard tool I used before that was CVS to store the source code of the applications I made. But in this team we’re trying to use more tools. One of the things we looked at was Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Seeing as we’re still dealing with a lot of non-Windows projects, it wasn’t really useful for us. For as far as I could see, the only way to store the source code in the source control system of VSTS, was when it was part of a Visual Studio solution. Not really useful for Perl, PHP and Java applications. So we decided to go with Subversion.
VSTS also provides bugtracking. For that we are still looking. Currently on the examination table is BugZilla.
VSTS provides many more things, like task lists and project management, all for which we have no solution yet, but hey! It’s a start!

So, VSTS is a great product, but only if you’re working on Microsoft platform-only applications. Although I did read you should be able to extend VSTS and you should be able to plug in your own stuff, like another source control system. Maybe I’ll have a look at VSTS again when it’s new beta is released. I never liked the fact you need to install it on a Active Directory Primary Domain Controller and need to be part of that domain to be able to access it from the client side.

[Last played: Billy Idol - Romeo\’s Waiting]

When I saw this I coculdn’t help but laught

[Last played: Billy Idol - Romeo\’s Waiting]