Following Brendon and Michael's lead, I wanted to throw some ideas up on the blog mostly as reminders to myself. I have a couple of project ideas, most of which would only be useful to me:
- Excel timesheet front-end: I have to fill out a bunch of silly time sheets. What I want is something I can use to track my time on maybe a bit more of a real-time basis as opposed to figuing out based on old e-mails what I did for the week, and have this time tracker tool automatically fill out the required spreadsheet. The spreadsheet template is posted out on the company network and has a tab with all the available clients and projects and such.
- a VSS pin comparison tool. We use VSS at work a lot. One of the things we have to deal with fairly frequently is building software with source out of branched and pinned source files. The problem is, we have no way of knowing which files are different between the “Next Release“ and the “Current Release“ versions because of the pins. It would be nice to have some way of showing which files have actually changed between the pinned current version and the next release version. Heck, it's been so long since I thought of this one I forgot why I really wanted to do it.
-- Matt Ranlett