Getting more of what someone paid for.

I am starting to really like Visual Studio 2010. My new favorite thing is historical clipboard.

Ctrl+Shift+V will cycle through the clipboard's history allowing you to paste things you copied a while ago. Nice when you are hacking stuff together.

You get what [someone] pays for.

I am starting to use Visual Studio (Professional) to write python. The first thing I had trouble with was missing the function in Pyscripter that highlights all occurrences of a selected word . A little trip to the google got me an extension that does this. I got it here.  Woot.

Data Flow Diagram... Ok

I have to do my first "official" data flow diagram. I don't really know what I am doing yet but after rummaging around for the an approach to take I found that Google Docs drawings has flow chart functionality. It looks like it will do everything I need.

Scratch Names

I was always wishing there was an easy way to create a unique scratch name for outputs of geoprocessing scripts. Today I found the simple solution http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/CreateScratchName/000v0000001z000000/

The Create Scratch Name code does just that so if you are making a temporary copy of  features or a temporary buffer or whatever you can slap this line in and have it make names for you. Its great for someone like me that has to run their code 70 times before finishing it.