Comments on: Automate Your Workday: Identifying Potential Opportunities

By: cpradio

cpradio — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:32:07 +0000

I am 24 and I remember “The Jetsons”, lets see if I can name them all: George, Jill, Judy, Alroy, Rosie, and Astro. I used to watch that before school constantly…ah the good ole days.

By: Dan Schulz

Dan Schulz — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:53:31 +0000

Uhm, I’m only 27, and even I watched “The Jetsons” when I was growing up.

By: vinnie

vinnie — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:49:31 +0000

“Unless, you know of a way to automate showering, shaving, and getting my Starbucks!”

Oh ye of little faith…

Here’s a coffeemaker that you can set to start brewing at a specific time like an alarm clock. Starbuck’s sells grounds. Set the grounds up the night before and when you wake up your coffee’s ready to go. There, happy?

By: Golgotha

Golgotha — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:07:35 +0000

I’ll try and keep a look out this week to see if I can automate any parts of my life, but as of right now, I don’t see any areas of redundancy.

Unless, you know of a way to automate showering, shaving, and getting my Starbucks!
Makes me think of the Jetsons. You’re all probably too young to know the Jetsons…

By: cpradio

cpradio — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:01:42 +0000

I don’t know how many times I have written C#, batch, DTS Packages or similar programs to take care of my tedious tasks.

I even went so far to write a program that would build my bulletins for me to send out to users notifying them of the changes I was putting into production. Part of that was to ensure I wrote useful comments when checking in my files and the other so I wouldn’t spend an hour or two writing up the information and trying to recall everything I did in the past two weeks to a month.

I am trying to get into Ruby, but just haven’t had the time to sit through the book I got and work out the examples. Maybe one day, I will no longer have batch scripts lying around.

Matt