Ivan Mitev In The Software Trenches

Technology weblog on .NET development and other things that make the world go round

October 05, 2006

What I have been doing for a month

As I mentioned in a previous post, I use QlockWork to track my activities at work. They had just released version 1.2.0 that fixed a problem that prevented me doing reports. So the first thing I did, after I installed the newest version, was to the a report by application for the last month. Here are the results:

50% Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
15% Microsoft Outlook
8% Mozilla Firefox
6% Trillian
3% RSS Bandit
3% Windows Explorer
15% Various applications (about 30 of them)

Am I surprised? Well, I expected VS.NET to have a little more share (though it is defiinitely not my only development tool - the other 30 apps in the various section are a part of my toolbox). Spending 15% in Outlook (10% of which writing) has surpassed my estimations a little - I was expecting 5% less. And spending just 3% in RSS Bandit look like maybe I am not investing enough time on staying up current and well-informed.