Freemind, but have transitioned to x-mind.

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Most of Red-Gate's stuff

Innovasys DocumentX.

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I used to enjoy acquiring tools and get excited over the new features but then I found that I was...

There is survival as in make the mortgage payments, eat, wear clothes.

There is also survival in terms of your own sanity. I've known people who have taken on a...

Just to change track a little. It's your hard-earned post-tax money going on software. What would you get as your base set and why?

"Getting the sack" used to refer to a tradesman being handed back his tools in a bag.

A tradesmans tools were often built up over their working lifespan starting with their...

Knowing my luck my FU money would be paid in Euros:ermm:

I seem to remember Steve saying that when Red-Gate bought SQLServerCentral he got enough to anything but not enough to do nothing.

Steve, I don't know if you are just naturally...

After I'd made sure the kids had a fund to allow them to go to university I'd probably go back to University myself and study something for the fun of...

Someone posted a comment on this site about not using a hammer to cut boards.

The right tool at the right time used in the right way delivers the goods.

Given...

Actually if you read "The mythical man month" by Fred P Brooks you will see that one of his peers was recommending the progenitor of...

If you changed the environment in which someone works then they change the way in which they work. That is in human nature.

To give a non-IT world example, drivers...

What would be really great would be if an update of any kind raised an event that could be trapped.