Author: Max Drake

After AutoCad, that had LISP, where you could write some simple code and get some useful tailored tools that helped your efficiency, I find Revit tailoring a lot more difficult. It is more sophisticated and so programatically there are more challenges, so the code needs to be a bit more complex, but some simple Keyboard

I go to tech meetup talks around town. One i went to recently as about RPA (Robotic Process Automation). In the talk a few vendors were demonstration their services/programmes and showing Bank/Enterprise processes that included Chat Bots and other automated processes. They talked, on the one han about efficiency, and also about customer enguagement &

I am not a touch typer, so look at the keyboard when I type. Sometimes I’ve hit the caps lock key and suddenly half of what I’ve written is in upper case GRRRR! Smart Caps Lock I found a small free app called SMART CAPS LOCK that sits in the toolbar tray that allows you

I’ve been doing some work for my daughter on her growing business. One of the things I was trying to work out was a flow process for the organisation, from seed o delivery and items needed along the way. I started to use Bubbl.us to look at some of the flows and organizational structures and

After playing with Azure I was in the MS(Microsoft) headspace and while browsing the net I came across a website with a .asp extension, so I thought i’d look at building a website with ASP.NET Core. So after figuring out the difference between ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core, core being the updated method which is cross

For the all day presentations on MS Azure AI they gave a voucher for 7 days for trying out the services. I am interested to see if I can get something up and running. So I’m going to start with the Computer Vision. Of course, this is not as easy as the demo’s make it

I went ot a day presentation on Microsoft AI cognitive services on saturday (14th dec) and although it started slow, some of the presenters were very interesting. The afternoon sessions weere definitely more interesting than all but one of the morning sessions. ML build insights one from Xero, Simo Carryer, who was trying to implement

I’d played with this before and just saw it as dark magic. I couldn’t really get my head around it. I remember trying to set one up and making a total mess of it, so I left it. Yesterday I went to an Azure All day presentation on Cognative services, hopefully I’ll try one of

In my constant search for ways to automate trivial processes and make life easier I came across DropIt. A free flexible tool to automate processing & organizing files and folders On the above site it shows this flow. Basically you make a rule with actions on a file type/filter and it will do those actions.

There are times when you need a little tool to do something. You could download a programme to do it, or you could use an online tool. Mostly though, you only need the tools at infrequent intervals , or you have a specific project that requires some minor tools. I’m a fan of free online