Update

I have to apologise as this blog has been rather quiet for awhile. As most of you that read this blog know (since I met with you in Sweden last week!) I have accepted a position with EPiServer UK. It's a great opportunity for me and I have already learnt so much in the month I have been there, including working with my first implementation of x3.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the EPiServer partner summit in Stockholm. It was a great 4 days with some interesting sessions and a lot of networking. It was fantastic meeting up with a lot of people I have talked with but never met. It's always nice finally meeting in person. And I appreciated all those that chatted with me for the first time and answered my various questions. I will be posting some excerpts from the conference soon but I actually jumped on here because I found a neat tool that I just had to mention.

If you ever come across the frustrating situation where you have a VS 2008 solution you just want to have a look at and you only have VS 2005 installed but you really don't have the time to try and source out VS 2008 (or can't install on the machine) for whatever reason you can use this nifty tool: http://home.hot.rr.com/graye/Articles/ProjectConverter.htm
It's simply a converter that converts your solution files from 08 back to 05. How handy... :)

Lorem Ipsum Generator

I use this little tool all the time and thought I should share it with the rest of you.

It's a generator for Lorem Ipsum dummy text http://www.lipsum.com/

CSSVista Tool

A friend at work put me on to this very cool free tool called CSSVista. It allows you to edit css against a live site and see the results in IE and Firefox simultaneously.

http://litmusapp.com/cssvista

It's a pretty basic tool, you make some changes to your css on the left and it displays on the right (no html changes available) however if you're like me, you no doubt have many occasion where you just can't seem to get your css to do what you want and this tool will allow you to play around till you get it right.

You can also disable css & images in one go to see the affect in both browsers, do some resolution resizing and outline elements.

TFS and Fiddler

If you are having problems with TFS and you use Fiddler then check out this post detailing the errors TFS encounters when Fiddler is running.

*Thanks to Duncan for the info

Fiddler

Yesterday I was having some performance problems with one of my MCMS websites and a workmate pointed me towards a tool he found. It's called Fiddler.

Fiddler is a http debugger which logs all http requests between your computer and the Internet. You can then check out the http traffic and inspect ingoing/outgoing data.

Quite an interesting tool, check it out here: http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/