Yesterday I installed the Stumbleupon Firefox toolbar as I ran out of unread blog posts and wanted something random to read. On my first click on the Show next page button I was taken to a great interpretation of the software project life cycle 
I’m sure every developer can relate to this in some way.
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TrackbackWhile installing Visual Studio 2008 on my PC I started to get the not so friendly Windows low disk space pop-up. This was odd as I thought I had lot of spare space! So I opened up Windows Explorer to see what I could find only to find nothing. My PC has files all over the place put there by all kinds of programs.
Then I remembered WinDirStat, this program turned out to be my saviour.
After leaving it run for 10 minutes it came back with a very nice psychedelic version of my hard drive:
Not my real hard drive
On closer inspection I found that I had many unused Virtual PC instances and old ISO images.
WinDirStat is broken up into three sections each of which offers a different view of your data:
Shows the disk usage summary from a group of folders down to file level
Colour coded with the psychedelic view so that types can been seen easily.
This is by far the best view and with a quick glance you can see where all of your disk space has gone.
No matter what view you are in, selecting or hovering over any of the items will highlight the area in the psychedelic view and provide you with more information about the file. Its odd to see the same patterns repeated by user directories or the sheer size of virtual PC images.
Once you have found what you are looking for the application allows you to clean up the files directly by using the delete key or the clean up menu.
This is a great application and I have since seen some of my colleagues running it and playing with the psychedelic view.
Comments rss TrackbackAn interesting read about the popular Urchin analytics software used by a large percentage of websites to track who is browsing.
When Google acquisitions go wrong: the disappointing story of Urchin — arstechnica.com
I guess this kind of thing happens quite a lot but it is a shame that the customer must suffer. But of course Google will not comment on any issues, so I guess like most things it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
It does look like from wikipedia that the original staff from Urchin are doing quite ok within Google if their job titles are anything to go by.
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